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Date: 2016-Jul-20, Wednesday 08:04 (UTC)-Riding the Shinkansen again reminds me how much of an embarrassing pile of trash every single American attempt at mass transit is. It's true that Amtrak was designed to kill passenger rail, but even with all its failures it's still running because mass transit is part of a civilized society and it's something that Japan has absolutely got down. -
I wouldn't quite say that- some may have wished Amtrak a quick death, but the people behind it's founding wanted it to work. Of which my dad was one of the people behind it ^^ It was definitely designed so that freight railroads wouldn't have to do it, though, and it has had to put up with people trying to choke it ever since (and I'm gonna have to disagree with the linked article pretty hard- it's still a very cost-effective means of travel and has been growing in partnership *despite* attempts to kill it. It's the little engine that could, even with people trying to throw logs in the tracks. If it got proper funding, it really could be more like Japan's systems).