We’ve been trying to build a widespread high speed rail network for half a bloody century, the problem is after the first few costing reports and plans are drawn up and agreed upon, the government gets kicked out and the plans scrapped for budget savings, then a few years pass and a new plan is started from scratch.
Comment on Opinion: Why it’s time to raise the speed limit in Australia to 130km/h
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sometimes, I think the only country that hates good public transit as much as America is Australia. One legend to another, I tip my hat to you.
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 year ago
The problem is they genuinely don't want to. There's no real political will to achieve the goal and some pollies will give lip service to the idea and never truly bother to get it started.
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
And yet over the decades, we’ve spent hundreds of millions on “feasibility studies” that amount to nothing.
Funilly enough the people who received that money all happened to be buddies with the politicians. On both sides even.
Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I feel like petroleum companies have played some role in assuring that countries like America and Australia don’t develop rail capabilities.