• JucheBot1988OP
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    To be fair, the US does have two high speed rail lines:

    1. That dumb Acela Express thing (federal government project!) that goes slightly faster than a normal freight train, and

    2. That bit of track in California connecting nowhere to nowhere. It’s about a hundred miles long, and took something like fifteen years to build.

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      Poland have few hundred km of “high” speed rail, mostly going 150km/h, rarily up to 200. Trains are the variations of the italian Pendolino, ironically called “pierdolino” due to large amount of fuckups and corruption every big program in Poland inevitably involves.

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        “high” speed rail, mostly going 150km/h, rarily up to 200.

        That’s still faster than the fastest train in the United States.

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            Honestly, size and resources are the only reason the US hasn’t collapsed yet. It’s badly-run even by the standard of modern capitalist nations.