Message from @Goblin_Slayer_Floki
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It's because it isnt functional here.
One place I've seen it work. *ONE PLACE*
And that was Salt Lake City.
In St. Louis County, they paid ISPs to provide every citizen with Fiber internet
Guess what they did?
It works in europe because it was established before the cities grew. And just expanded as needed.
Well, you can assume what happened because I definitely don't have good internet out here
I think that's why it works in SLC. The trains came before the people
Of course
It's inconvenient to travel a long distance to the rail station as would be neccesary in most US cities
Like, what else can they do? They can't break through a bunch of buildings to implement a better location for it
And then people yell "buses" not realizing in europe the busses support the train/subways, and not the other way.
Buses work just fine in the cities
LOL
Tbh Amtrak isnt so bad out here
Well
Not just fine
But they sort of get their job done
At extreme cost and always late
I don't think most Europeans that like to talk up Public transport really understand the size of the United States
How fucking massive we are
My state is comparable in size to Germany.
They dont realize you could drive 2 hours and not hit a city
With a lower population, of course
Driving from St Louis to Kansas City is a nice 4-5 hour trip
Depending on how many stops you need to take
It's a fucking pain to get from city to city out in the middle of the country
Hell many areas you can drive hours between cities and only find truck stops in between at best
You usually have the luck of coming across small towns out here
At least a gas station at every other one
Irony is out here. Amtrak drops you in Portland, Tacoma, and seattle fine but the nearest to me is couple hours away. Which is odd as we do have trains here and arnt a small town
Wha?
How big?
There's no station down there?
oh nice I'm green again
Naw closest one is in kalamath falls
Oddly enough
..... weird choice
I have no clue where that is but it sounds odd
Well the air base is there. So maybe because of that, but yea odd there isnt one here
NOTE: The Amtrak Coast Starlight, which stretches the West coast of the US, is a 35hr train ride