The fact of the matter is Japan is about 100 years in advance as far as mass transit system compared with ours. They were able to have trains that can go up to speeds of 125 miles (200 kilometers) an hour some 50 years ago. And what are we doing?
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Eni Faleomavaega, who heads the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia, contrasting Japan’s trains with the United States’ own troubled network. President Barack Obama in January unveiled $8 billion in economic stimulus money aimed at building high-speed rail networks in the United States. (AFP)
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combinibento
Granted, Japan has a great rail network, but comparing the US to Japan is apples to oranges. The car happens to be far more prevalent there than in Japan; everyone's got one and the cities/streets are far more accomodating there than in Japan.
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combinibento
So which is first the chicken or the egg. The US's public transport systems are woeful. But is it because everybody wants to drive or does everybody want to drive as a result?
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LostinNagoya
You can't compare Japan railway system with large countries, such as US, Australia, Russia, Canada, India, just because the whole of Japan in most cases is smaller than some of these nations' states.
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girlataparty
i believe most if not all the japan rail system was built with money donated by the World Bank
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