Comment on Anon likes trains
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I mean, some of this is just silly and entirely based on the locations involved. For instance, a flight from Chicago to Florida is going to be cheaper and faster than Rail, and you’re not going to just hop off wherever the hell you want.
I do also question the “safety” aspect. I’m pretty sure both trains and planes have extremely high safety rates, and are pretty much on par with each other.
Also… why is “on the ground” a bullet point? You’re on the ground 99.9% of your life, you telling me it’s not cool as shit to be flying through the air?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
As it’s run now, yes.
Because rail is the abused bastard and air travel has the government pay for most of it’s everything.
Cars too. The government buys your roads, your gas, your parking, and part of your car for you. Only trains need to more than vaguely gesture at paying their own way in this country.
Yes, the theoretical maximum speed for a plane is faster, but we dont fly supersonic anymore, and supersonic trains still exist.
As run right now, sure. If we invested half as much in trains as cars and planes? Oh, easily. And even right now, amtrak’s ‘trip insurance’ is basically license to do exactly that. I have used it this way before.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
hop on hop off does exist for the Alaska Railroad, it just makes it less valuable as a transportation system between cities because it is intended for the people that live on the route to use almost anywhere.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I wasn’t aware alaska was in canada.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
good to see Canada has those too