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2026-04-13 10:13 UTC
This doesn’t answer anything about what’s stopping America from having both.
You are taking about half empty trains in a country that’s suffering from population decline. Japan’s airlines are struggling to fill sets and make profits dispite benefiting from government subsidies that the main companies that run Shinkansen don’t get.
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@FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2026-04-13 11:21
Have another go at reading the post. The question wasn't what's stopping the US from building both, the question was whether OP's explanation does justice to the status quo. My first sentence includes the word "also," indicating that this is additional information that I found wasn't sufficiently weighed in the single paragraph. This is a thread and I read other people pointing out other things. So I didn't.