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@Shadow79@piefed.social on piefed.social Open parent
Does this explain why there are no bullet trains in the USA?
Short answer: cities are too far apart and the USA is large. However, how much funding is there to really implement the same thing that exists in Japan but in the United States? Also, is there an incentive for that in the first place? What about population density? Japan is more compact regarding their population density allowing the demand for bullet trains to exist plus both Osaka & Kyoto aren’t too far from each other.
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@jdr@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent
China is bigger and has a great high-speed rail network.
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@I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org on beehaw.org Open parent
It’s less about size and more about population density. Japan is 338 people per square kilometer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan China is 147 people per square kilometer total en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China The US is 36 people per square kilometer www.census.gov/data/…/density-data-text.html The US could build long distance high speed rail like Japan and China, but the ridership level would be rock bottom due to the low population density.
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I think it would be fine to just build the stations in big cities. Nobody is demanding high speed rail across Alaska.
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