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Same with the highway or Autobahn, so what's the excuse there?
I’m not making any excuses. I’m giving an explanation for the explosion of trains in Europe.
Yall can hate the truth for some weird reason.
That said … the logic of your response seems to highlight my point as opposed to refute it.
Roads supplanted trains as they are quicker to lay down, cost less (in initial investment) and the vehicles that can use it are more varied.
Which is why the autobahn was created.
Had the US been blasted by the wars of 18th/19th century Europe we would have trains too.
The civil war proved to the USA how valuable trains were BUT we didn’t have the same constant local wars with industrialized nations like Europe did driving many parties to build against each other.
Why the USA doesn’t invest in raid NOW is another story altogether.