▲ 784 ▼ A more realistic future (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by NickwithaC@lemmy.world to c/dankmemes@lemmy.world 114 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) I love trains, but hate shitty trains. I'll gladly take a 10 hour train ride instead of a 1 hour flight. But when tens are late, cancelled, delayed by priority cargo trains, etc, it makes me hate trains... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] pedz@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) It doesn't make me hate trains, it makes me hate the car and aviation industries for influencing governments and the general public. In Canada trains suck in general because of all you mentioned, but I'm aware that it's caused by putting all of our money into highways, airports and the aviation industry, rather than putting a single dollar into owning and building more tracks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago There was a time when it nearly went the other way, but people loved their cars too much to be able to see the future hellscape nearly 300 million cars on today's roads would create permalink fedilink source parent [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago What about a 5 hour blimp ride instead permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) It doesn't make me hate trains, it makes me hate the car and aviation industries for influencing governments and the general public. In Canada trains suck in general because of all you mentioned, but I'm aware that it's caused by putting all of our money into highways, airports and the aviation industry, rather than putting a single dollar into owning and building more tracks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago There was a time when it nearly went the other way, but people loved their cars too much to be able to see the future hellscape nearly 300 million cars on today's roads would create permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago There was a time when it nearly went the other way, but people loved their cars too much to be able to see the future hellscape nearly 300 million cars on today's roads would create permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago What about a 5 hour blimp ride instead permalink fedilink source parent
