Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 day agoHigh speed rail has a massive stigma in the US as hundreds of billions have been spent on failed rail projects (embezzled or just abandoned mostly) and 99% of us have never even seen it in existence. It’s like a myth scam sold to us by snake oil salesmen.
Sure, if we fund it again it will really happen this time.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Also based on an experience I had at work with a visiting American who point blank refused to get the tram, there seems to be a vicious cycle where public transport is seen as unsafe because only poor people get it, and only poor people get it because it’s seen as unsafe.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Was he genetic?