Important things to remember about rail in the USA:
1. In almost all suburbs your destinations and origins are too diffuse to win suburb to suburb circumferential trips
2. you're probably providing bad radial service
3. You're probably providing bad urban service (both circumferential and radial)
tbh it is kinda interesting that in the past even anti-elitist acknowledged that the working class had undesirable practices that should be corrected rather than this idea that not rolling around in your own filth is unforgivable elitism lol
tbh the @seung.bsky.social piece about the problems associated with Seoul's Line 9 is kinda funny because I think the problems are very real but "We underbuilt a line that has ridiculous amounts of usage" is like, least problem a new transit line can have
www.substack-bahn.net/p/hell-line-...
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I mean it's really complicated too because a lot of the "Germans love austerity" problem is less anti-debt fetishism as much as Germany just returned to full employment much faster than PIIGS countries but they all share a currency so you had a lot of EU drama over the Euro specifically
tbh I don't think the EU is afraid of spending money as much as they just struggle to get any sort of meaningful consensus going
