Elon Musk wants to privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak
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Amtrak is a mess.. all for it
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Word. The Euros are twash but their trains are tits.
The Japanese also have their train reads down. Would love to jump on a bullet train and be in Seattle in two hours or so. Actually, that’s a lie. Don’t give a fuck about visiting Seattle.
Not sure it would pencil out as a private venture but the US is 50 years behind the times in train travel
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Is this what I voted for?
Yes, yes it is. You live long enough and everything comes back around and you realize how almost impossible it is to change the course of the federal government once it is in place
We are back to the future and it's 1985 all over again
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The US has property rights and geography both going against trains.
Most train systems are Grey rhinos in foreign economies. Giant sinkholes of public funds without the ridership to justify the expenditure. That's the last thing the US needs more of right now.
ATBS, I've ridden the Shinkansen and it was cool as hell seeing MT. Fuji coming into Tokyo.
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Plus the dems promoting public transportation have no interest in maintaining said public transportation or policing it to make it safe.
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People don't want to ride fucking trains. Unlike most of the world, we have plenty of space and live in houses with yards. Cars are king and always will be. Personal transportation »»»»» riding buses and trains filled with junkies and criminals.
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The massive amount of USPS dinosaurs retiring last year pretty much fortold what is about to happen to the Post Office.
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Or using it themselves.
