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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe (i.redd.it)
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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what was going on before the 1960's?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

cars are more complicated and took a longer time to develop, which is why trains were the only option before that

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

More like we decided to invest billions(trillions) into building freeways instead of our rails. And then air travel became cheap.