Why does U.S. commuter rail system suck?

Why does a country with abundant electricity not provide basic rail service between cities? It's fucking embarrassing.

Because it is not a dot on the map, so the infrastructure would cost more than a nipple's.

Because most Americans own cars. We're the wealthiest nation on Earth, unlike Japan, which is one of the poorest first world nations.

Even our poor are rich compared to the rest of the world.

The US is huge. It would be an astronomical amount to connect all the major cities. Plus most Americans own cars and can drive themselves.

America is bigger, we all have big cars, we don't need to travel between cities often enough that this would be super used, infrastructure would cost a ton

This.

Stop trying to make funny posts because you're in Japan.

A lot less than genocide in the third world and 'building' hospitals.

america is big

I once used a map-overlaying program to copy Japan's entire rail system and see what it could do, if slapped over America.

Wanna go from Chicago to Oklahoma City? Because that was it. There is nothing between those two cities with having all that infastructure installed. I mean, comparably, nearly every city in America of note is further away from its nearest neighbor than the top-most station in Japan is from the bottom-most.

And there is an extant rail system between the closer ones on the eastern seaboard. "BOSNYWASH." But it is underfunded because people have cars.

That show was great. Not in Japanese of course.

>Commuter rail
>service between cities
>pick one

Big? You are just a midget.

This is going to sound like a cop out, but every mode of public transportation is plagued by niggers. In areas that don't want the inner city to come to them, the building of public transit is just ignored. Hell, sometimes not putting bus stops and trains eveywhere is called racist.

Two words: Henry Ford

He became successful because of the type-A model car and because he pioneered assembly line factory construction. Once he became the richest motherfucker in America he lobbied and campaigned to make sure America didn't have public transit, but highways. Now America is permanently fucked because a hundred years ago they decided to make America's entire infrastructure based on personal vehicles.

>Why does a country with abundant electricity not provide basic rail service between cities?
But there are

We have a lot of fucking space between cities and the infrastructure would be a hassle to build in a country with car culture and highways.

Henry Ford had foresight. In America, mass public transportation is basically just a Dindu Delivery Service. The fact that there aren't as many public transportation options between areas means that niggers have a harder time leaving their own shitholes.

If there was japan-tier mass transportation across America, then dindus would be free to spread out everywhere. But the way it is now, they're mostly confined to where they are.

Because it's faster to fly. The USA is too geographically large and diverse for a maglev (the only thing fast enough to make sense).

What's with all americans in this thread using muh infrastructure muuh cost. Railway when done correctly is the cheapest and most efficient form of travel. Far cheaper than building entire highways and all the problems that come with. There should really be a high speed train linking NY with LA with maybe a couple stops on the way.

It won't happen because rail is a longterm investment and competeting against airlines offering $75 cross country flights is a task no one wants to undertake.

All 1st world country's should have high speed trains connecting major cities. No excuses.

cos socialism is communism, MURICA

We're closer to self-driving cars than a high-speed rail systen

Firstly because if Oil and Auto lobbyism.

Second, nkbodu wabts to give ghetto niggers easy access to their towns, there's a reason tje towns around major American cities try their hardest to kill public transportation projects.

Don't be retarded user. Research the US's geography and laws before asking stupid questions.

theres this majical system called Capitalism. and in Capitalism common sense takes second fiddle to corporate greed. the Big 3 car companies lobbied hard to crush any and every form of public transit in order to force people to buy their shitty cars. and thus, the only places with any kind of public transit are cities like new york where there's so many people that the sidewalks are bumper to bumper.

>Muh'rica is so big

Can we fuck off with this meme?

If you take away Alaska, which was accidentally appropriated to the US in an accounting accident the US is only about 15% the size of greenland.

It was explained in the movie Roger Rabbit. Los Angeles and many cities had extensive electric street rails service. It was taken away by big oil, big rubber, and big auto.

Im waiting for the triggering...

>Greenland
>Nothing but ice and cold
Leaf logic folks

They were not taken away
they were losing money because people would rather take a car

Because we have given every minority and illegal Trillions of dollars due to "muh feels" from left.

Our debt to the Hebs is 21 trillion. We could have and be The Jetsons if nigger, Mexicans, and muzzles weren't such a drain on creative white men in this country.

I would stop all checks day one and have the National Guard on alert with orders to shoot down rioters. No judge would dare allow retribution in court for anyone shot.

Word gets out Honkey will cap your black ass. Hope they try resistance. Address old greviences on the spot.

Matter and case closed.

Black rights are Mind over Matter.

I don't mind because they don't matter!