• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    It doesn’t make me hate trains, it makes me hate the car and aviation industries for influencing governments and the general public.

    In Canada trains suck in general because of all you mentioned, but I’m aware that it’s caused by putting all of our money into highways, airports and the aviation industry, rather than putting a single dollar into owning and building more tracks.

    • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      There was a time when it nearly went the other way, but people loved their cars too much to be able to see the future hellscape nearly 300 million cars on today’s roads would create