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If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don’t, but a man can dream though. A man can dream.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    America had a public rail system already…

    We nationalized rail during WW1, and then after giving it back they all went broke in the 60s

    So then Amtrak was created (there’s a push to privatize it right now) and when that was going to put private rail out of business, Jimmy Carter de-regulated rail so private companies could cut corners and not be replaced nationwide by Amtrak

    We’ll never get nationalized rail on a good scale with neoliberals, they’ll never fix any problem where money is involved, because they’ll take the offered money to change their minds.