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Cuz of all the issues that come with laying rail lines. Eminent Domain has somehow become even more unpopular as of late. And guess what building rail lines requires?
Steel?
And indentured workers!
Frequently, blowing holes in hills and mountains so you can get that 3% gradient.
Rich people owning land and trying to get a mark up on the value or a backhand. Or just being near it.
I know this website is pretty communist and I'm not. But surely anyone with half a brain even a die hard capitalist can see the gain in buying land and resetting the market for what is most valuable now not legacy at what was most valuable in the 60's.
Anyone that is against heavy funding in public transport, tax on land/ reallocation for more density and education isn't a capitalist they are just a cunt.
Especially true since there's a lot more potential for capitalism in trains than there is in roads—the latter of which is probably the biggest socialised cost in America.
Right, but you pay that price once. Cars and planes have a lot more maintenance costs than trains.