this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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A Boring Dystopia
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It bothers me so much. I wanted to pay for a friend's ticket to visit us. By train, it was $200, a 16hr trip, of which 2/3rds was by bus thanks to Amtrack's garbage infrastructure/system.
By plane for the same trip, it was a $180, 2hr direct flight.
It's so god damn ass backwards. Trains produce a fraction of the emissions of planes, so why are we ok with trains being uncompetitive?