Those states: freedom to spend like 1/4 of your waking hours sitting in traffic
Spain: 404 freedom not found
Spain must be liberated from the tyrannical boot of Dick-tater Felipe IV and Madrid bombed to rubble so we can give the Spanish people the gift of Mcdonalds (real food) and american style suburbs with Kentucky Bluegrass (Real grass)
They serve beer at McD’s in Spain which is pretty cool though
Yes and Ronaldo McDonaldo pours it into your cup from a comical height
tyrannical boot of Dick-tater Felipe VI
okay but someone should kill him
You don't get it. Culturally, Spaniards are catholic and need to take a siesta everyday, which they can't do if they're driving a car. Therefore, for them trains are necessary, while USian's superior non-siesta protestant culture makes trains completely unnecessary.
It's so American that we have a high speed train that you can pay a premium for, but it only actually uses its high speed for a small minority of the tracks it can travel.
The government/companies are slowly but surely privatizing as much as they can of this industry, i think this year several companies will get permission to start operating here.
So yeah, in like 10-15 years things will be as bad as in the UK in terms of liberalization.
:yea:
Can't leave all that copper laying in the walls unpulled, that's a big no-no for stonks or something
It's also funny how i've never had a problem with Renfe (the company who kind of operates trains and is kind of public, or something??) and yet lots of people from Madrid complain every single week because their precious trains had a 10 minute delay or something.
I knew a guy who used to strip copper from old abandoned factories. He’d say, “These things got hollowed out by some rich fucks years ago. I’m just finishing the job.” He once got a couple hundred bucks for an industrial radiator that no one else wanted to bother to haul out of the basement.
Maybe you'll end up like Japan where the state does all the work, private companies swoop in, but at least the trains still go fwoosh :deeper-sadness:
Worth noting that "miles of high speed rail" in the US is contentious. Generally to be high speed rail you have to reach consistent speeds of 250 km/h; Spain's trains here go 300 km/hr+. That 49 miles of track in the US, which flies by in like 20 minutes, only reaches a top speed of 240 km/h.
Spain's high speed trains are so fucking good. Basically serve every major city, super reliable with rare delays. Only things I wish they would fix would be a better ticketing system (RENFE website sucks) and a better schedule (no midday or overnight routes)
