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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's funny that the country that invented trains has worse trains than the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Nah mate that’s a massive exaggeration. US rail is absolutely centuries behind UK rail.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't go that far.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What are you talking about, America is the worst at it by a mile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

By a mile? How many miles of operational rail do we have? Now how many miles do you have? The US has approximately 140,000, mi. There is approximately 10,000 mi of rail across Great Britain and Northern Ireland........

As my British friend Tom used to say

Mate you fucking flunked your maths schooling didn't ya.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ehhhhhhhh, considering the UK is basically the same size as ONE midwestern state ... it's highly debatable as to who has failed worse. (note: both are still abysmal failures, but one country has a goal post MUCH closer than the other)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your comment shouldn't be downvoted, it's certainly debatable who has the worse rail

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All I'm saying is Amtrak hasn't folded and rebranded three different times in the last decade. https://youtu.be/IayST598Vxo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It certainly doesn’t.