Reply #81: AndyTiedye

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AndyTiedye

We do have TRAINS in Europe.. It have been one of the halmark of every industralized nations in Europe, to have train roads all over the place. Some have managed to build it up to an amazing network between city's, other could do far more, to build reiable railroad connections all over the place..

It is true that US is a place where public transport have been an enemy of the STATE for long, long time.. Now its coming back to hunt most americans, that they diden't build a decent public transport network when they had the chance.. At one point, in the 1950s and 1960s, US was in fact the leading nation in public transport sector.. Few americans know that little fact.. USSR was in fact trying all what they could do, to learn from US, how to build a decent collective transport network between and inside the city's.. The famous underground network in Moskow and St-Petersburg are in fact mostly build on the same idea that London and New York did when they build their underground network.. Even Josef Stalin, was admirer of US collective transportnetwork, and was indeed really interest in building a better public transport in USSR than US had.. And it was something that every soviet leader from Stalin to Gorbatsjev was trying their best to outperform.. Better transport nettwork than US. Or at least on the same level...

It wil take decades maybe more to rebuild, and to build new lines. Thats true.. And I doubt it wil be more easy, becouse of some republicans, that want to kill interstate transport on a public ticket.. But they seen to forget that your amazing inter-state road system, who span the whole of US, was indeed the halmark of a public idea, from FDR in the 1930s and 1940s to Eisenhower in the 1950s.. Withouth public spending, the US interstate road system would never been anynear what they have today..

But US can build from scratch, and to use the newest metodes to build advanced railroads between city's and every where else you are in need of a railroad.. Railroads is not as it was in the early 20 century, if US was able to deside to build new lines from City's to City's, they could use the newest technolgy, and use all the new tools that are in the tool box.. And on a sidenote, quite a few americans would get a decent job, and a wage to be proud about...

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