• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    if you took their desert which has fuck all trains

    They run hundreds of trains a day between population centers in that desert, I took them to get to Kazakhstan and back.

    skill issue

    The skill issue is being able to build efficient, comfortable, cheap trains, which Japan has the first 2, but they could be cheaper.

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      50 minutes ago

      I mean that’s fine but that doesn’t answer my original point when 3/4th’s of people are using cars to get around, this public transport paradise is limited to inner city and highly dense locations, and even then 50%+ of people are still using cars

      Doesn’t scream public transport is a winner

      I also much prefer driving in my car listening to music and not having little shits on the train making a racket and running around and my car is more comfortable and when I want to go down to GYG at 11pm for a cheeky fries run I’m not standing out in the dark and cold in my suburb (not the nicest) waiting for a bus to turn up and then the same thing on my way back, that would be the pits

      Maybe this works in a big urban centre but the whole world is not a big urban centre