Yes, better than in France and Germany. That’s the US train service.
Definitely. Also, China does not exist.
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This is an obviously bullshit list made by a low-paid intern
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If you mess around with statistics, you might get high numbers from the U.S. in terms of amount of freight carried, as U.S. Class 1 railroads do indeed carry a great deal of freight. However, it tends to be bulk freight, so you get a lot of wheat, corn, coal, gravel, and the like.
The argument is fundamentally dumb as hell, because the Soviet Union had some of the most advanced and used rail-networks on the planet, and they were literally build in the biggest country to have ever existed.
Oh boy if you think that argument is pervasive in the US, just try advocating for rail in Canada :sadness: Some hardliner social democrat I know explained to me how impossible it was with our size, even though a huge percentage of the population live in the Windsor-Montreal corridor.
You can take trains between Lisbon and Moscow, but not a high speed train. You’ll have to transfer between several low speed trains, but there are a few high szeed segments.
China totally absent?
:xi-reactionary-spotted:
Definition: The Quality of railroad infrastructure indicator is one of the components of the Global Competitiveness Index published annually by the World Economic Forum (WEF). It represents an assessment of the quality of the railroad system in a given country based on data from the WEF Executive Opinion Survey, a long-running and extensive survey tapping the opinions of over 14,000 business leaders in 144 countries. The score for railroad infrastrucutre quality is based on only one question. The respondents are asked to rate the railroads in their country of operation on a scale from 1 (underdeveloped) to 7 (extensive and efficient by international standards). The individual responses are aggregated to produce a country score.
it’s just vibes
And those “business leaders” are probably exclusively thinking of freight rail and how cheap it is for them to ship freight on it for their company, since they never actually ride trains.
Um excuse me, California has been building high speed rail the last twenty years and it’s billions over budget. They haven’t finished one segment but it’s on its way.
My hunch is that California dems are just extremely reluctant they have to follow through on this, so they are trying almost every poison pill under the sun to try to get people to cancel it.
In about 5 years, they will be explicitly begging voters to make them stop.
