• Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago
    1. I have taken an Amtrak train between Houston and Dallas and it sucked like all passenger rail sucks. Yes, even Japanese passenger rail sucks.

    2. Take the fucking L.

    • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Congratulations on destroying my hyperbolous statement by being hyper literal and proving my overall point that commuter rail in the US is garbage that doesn’t factor into what people actually use on a day to day basis

      “I took a train one time” walter-breakdown

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      1 year ago

      Bruh Amtrak sucks because there’s extremely low rail density in this country generally and they don’t own any of their own tracks, so the (relatively) few trains that they do run are always getting waylaid by freight trains. Also maintenance requirements for rail companies is incredibly lax, which results in poorly maintained tracks, which limits the trains’ speeds. All of this is a simple public investment problem.

      Really now, you can’t come in here with complete ignorance of why a thing is the way it is and say authoritatively that it all sucks, even in countries I’m 100% positive you’ve never been to. All generalized from a single personal anecdote.

      I mean I guess you can, you did just do that, but you really shouldn’t. It makes you sound foolish.

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      1 year ago

      I have no idea what your standards are if you think Japanese commuter rail sucks.

      I remember is was WORLD NEWS when a train was over a minute late. Meanwhile, the one time I tried Washington DC’s commuter rail (which I hear is one of the better US ones?), it was a little over 5 minutes behind schedule.

      Not to mention, I didn’t feel the need to shower after riding the Japan trains (not something I can say for any American train I’ve taken).

      Edit: fixing typo (‘an’ -> ‘any’ in my last sentence)

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      Japanese passenger rail, by which assume you mean the slower trains and not shinkansen (because shinkansen is in another world of superior experience), is comfy as fuck and reasonably priced. As someone who rode Amtrak, you know neither of those are the case in the US.

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        1 year ago

        It so fucking crowded its ridiculous. Im a dude and I still felt like I was getting molested.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          It was crowded on Japanese intercity commuter rail? Was this a JR Line or a city metro line? Were you on peak hours?

          I’ve been on hundreds of trains in Japan and the only time I remember it being too crowded to move are the ones early in the morning and the ones at rush hour.

          They also get a little crowded in inner cities on Friday and Saturday nights, but you know what? They’re great. They’re almost never late, they’re comfortable, and they get you where you’re going. Cheap too. I remember going from Narita to Shinjuku (40 something miles) for around 2700 yen (like $24).

          The best trains I’ve used ever are actually in China, unless the shinkansen in Japan counts. The shinkansen is the best transportation I’ve ever experienced. Surreal levels of comfort and smoothness.