not this shit again

are you some sort of train bot?

Um American can and has light rail. That's in Arizona and I live there and have used that many times.

Because electricity is the Devil's work, all patriotic Americans know that.

Typical Americans; too afraid of their fellow man to ride a train with him for 30 minutes. More willing to spend hundreds of dollars on gas, car insurance, and inevitable repairs, lest he be forced to sit among the commoners.

>my face when Americans call "moving solitary confinement chambers" cars.

>trainfag

>>2386658
To be fair, I wouldn't ride trains here in Australia if we had as many abbos as the americans have blacks.

You people don't know jack about history. We had trains, and still do all over the country. In the late 1800's we built the most advanced rail system in the civilized world. And you know what happened? The Free market fucked it up. Then eisenhower built the highway system (again the finest in the world) and america created cars.

No need to thank me. I am american but I can't claim responsibility.

BECAUSE WE WANT TO DRIVE OUR MUTHFUCKIN CARS, OK?

Becuase outside of major cities our population density is too low to make trains practical as a means of public transportation.

>>2386677

The free market fucked it up? I think what you mean to say is that money losing lines dropped out and cheaper alternatives came in and overtook the rail system as a means of transportation

>>2386703
Totally! I meant more that actions within the market acted together to prevent our rail line utopia that op keeps talking about every god damn day. He's like a mindless zombie calling out for:

TTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSS!

>>2386630

That picture's from Arizona, as am I. The light rail is a tremendous failure and eating up government money. They don't even have a way to check if you bought your ticket. You can just get right on, no security or gate to present/scan your ticket or anything to stop you. If there is security, they're pretty damn shitty.

>>2386729

I'd rather have a plane based society, quicker and easier, but we're not gonna get that with the insane regulation and costs that ensues, and we need to eventually find a better fuel that will stay cheap to help decrease costs.

>>2386687

Then drive your car.
You will also have the option to take the train, if you feel like it some day.

Enjoy your crowded highways. I'll be over here, sipping tea on my superior bullet train.
Pic related; it's what you deal with every day. I can't even fathom it.

>>2386703

It was sabotaged by people who had other interests.

>>2386756
I've had this happen to me once in my life.

>>2386776
Could've been never.

Well sure I could have been sitting around at a train station surrounded Negros and Dutchmen instead.

>>2386776
are you denying the existance of traffic jams bro?

Trains are just so slow. I'd much prefer to travel by car on the speedy, open roads.

>>2386801
No only that they aren't some horrible thing that blights every day of our existence.

Honestly, I don't get the fascination with trains. I mean, they have to make regular stops to let people off! And I never have to stop when I'm in my car.

train filled with hundreds of people packed like sardines with no restraints or seatbelts -- cards are safer, built with safety in mind more each generation and you're in control during an accident. Train crashes and you just have to stand/sit and die.

Then there's the freedom. I love being able to just get in my car and go, do you know what I mean? I have no limitations in my car.

>>2386839
You're right, bro. Cards are safer. If only cars were as safe as cards.

>>2386822
Add rails and it's much worse, wouldn't you agree?

>>2386859
Hardly. Those cars aren't even at a standstill.

>>2386839train filled with hundreds of people packed like sardines with no restraints or seatbelts -- cards are safer, built with safety in mind more each generation and you're in control during an accident. Train crashes and you just have to stand/sit and die.
How many car accidents have there been?
And how many train accidents?
>

>>2386909
trains kill WAAAAY more people when the crash.

>>2386912
Why would a train crash? Look at that thing. It's on fucking rails. On top of that, it's controlled by a god-tier train expert. And the other trains are on schedules that effectively prevent collisions. I'm not saying it's impossible, because obviously trains do crash, but it's pretty unlikely.

Then you have cars. Any dumb motherfucker can get behind the wheel of a car and experience total freedom behind several tons of steel.

>>2386912
just like planes, but you still have a higher chance of dying in a car crash driving every day than a plane flying every day.

i live in one of the most conjested cities in america, oh my oh my do i wish we had some fucking city trams or better bus public transportation.
in miami only crackhead peasants take the bus, and we cant have subways because of the water table. i was spoiled by my time in germany, the public transportation there was amazing, and everyone took the bus or s/u-bahns.

wow. is this even just one guy anymore? I think it's just a running gag by now

>>2386912

....but they rarely crash.

Cars crash all the fucking time. This isn't even contentious.

Because america isn't run by autistic faggots with train obsessions.

You don't need rail service, you need a hugbox.
/thread

>>2386951
>guaranteed replies.jpg
It is.

>>2386951
Probably both, but I can help feeling 80% of it is samefag. Trains just aren't on anyone's radar. It would be like /new/ suddenly filling up with dozens of threads about hamsters.

This thread is now about hamsters.

>>2386992
Right, its one train-obsessed assberger posting these FUCKING THREADS EVERY FUCKING DAY

>>2386973
holy shit I didn't even see that jesus christ

fuck this board is so terrible

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>>2387003
Maybe it is, every time he posts a thread newfags flood in to post.

We should send all of the race and religion faggots to /n/

We can, and we do.

Portland, Oregon has a max that is ridden everyday by thousands of people

DURR THOSE AR SOCIALICT TRIANS

>>2386756

I really haven't ever been in that bad of a traffic jam, and never because of something like in that pic. Usually I stop at tolls and accidents, the longest I have ever been stuck was on I-95 in New Jersey, they actually closed the interstate because of three fatalities. I was driving an RV for camping, a train would not have solved anything.

theres one in down town houston i cant count how many times a stupid fuck has driven into it and flipped it

>>2387069
Portland's also a shitty tiny city no one cared about until 2008 when every hipster in NYC and LA got bored of Williamsburg/Silverlake and bought a house there.

Fuck your trains, OP!

>>2387096

You are now aware that Portland is the whitest major city in America. The fact that everyone there is a liberal does not surprise me. Liberalism might work in a country full of well intentioned, hard working, white people.

>>2386703
>HURR DURR FREE MARKET KILLED TRAINS DURR
i think what you mean to say is that GM and Ford lobbied the government to pass bullshit legislation on PRIVATE rail companies (79mph speed limit, etc) build an incredibly expensive freeway network (which really benefited auto manufacturers more than consumers) and nationalize rail (which, coincidentally uses exclusively GM locomotives), which has lead to massive service cuts. this was all done at the expense of the taxpayers and the environment so that the corporations could make profit.