Comments by "VE7NDE" (@denelson83) on "Why California High Speed Rail is Struggling (Re-upload)" video.

Too bad California did not simply ask JR, Japan's national railway company, to help out.
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@themonkeyspaw7359 Remember that automobile manufacturers and airlines also directly oppose this project. And the incumbent private railways in California obviously also did not even think about such a project because it would not have provided them any short-term profits. There is a reason the car is king in North America: Car sales are astronomically lucrative compared to other methods of land transport.
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@EE-sw3uh The term Alan used was "store-brand Wendover".
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Meanwhile, here on Vancouver Island, we have no more passenger train service at all. Our one railway, the E&N, has deteriorated to such an extent that running passenger services on it is no longer safe, so we are pretty much stuck with the car, and it will most likely remain that way for a long time.
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@weirdfish1216 Well, I like the no-nonsense pull-no-punches style RLL uses.
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@useodyseeorbitchute9450 Doomed partially because of mismanagement, and partially due to massive pushback from incumbent sectors of business, such as private cargo railways, automobile manufacturers, and airlines. The main reason high-speed rail never really got on track in North America is capitalism. Capitalism is why we cannot have such nice things on this side of the Atlantic.
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pyropulse They only choose flight because they do not have an alternative. The state is trying to give them such an alternative. And have you not heard the expression "If you build it, they will come"?
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Then again, there is still massive resistance from incumbent vested interests, such as car manufacturers and airlines.
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@richardcranium3417 Are passenger railways privately-owned? No. What's the main tenet of capitalism? It's not creating or innovating, it's making money. Passenger railways in general do not make money. Cargo railways, automakers, and airlines make money. This is why passenger rail service is so crappy in North America. Passenger rail service is excellent in Europe because it was developed first over there, and policymakers very heavily defend it. But in North America, policymakers are told to leave everything to private interests.
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@neutrino78x Cars and planes not intrinsically polluting? Are you out of your mind? What do you think is coming out of those engines of theirs? Pixie dust?
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@zenith251 Hey, one of the mistakes RLL made in his original video was to pronounce the "C" in Merced like "K" instead of the correct "S".
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Car companies do not want their products compared to high-speed rail because they do not want to compete with it in North America. Why else would you think modern life on this side of the Atlantic orbits so heavily around the automobile? It is king here.
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@neutrino78x Well, we are going to have to move away from cars and planes if we want humanity to survive.
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@FreewayBrent Probably because automakers are standing in the way.
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@orthodox1818 They blame government incompetence on socialism because that is exactly what big corporations want them to blame. That is gaslighting.
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@SuperKing604 So? Would you really want us to be condemned to cars?
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@neutrino78x That is not the answer. Jet aircraft have a very harmful aspect in common with cars, and that is they burn fossil fuels and put out a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. We are supposed to be moving away from fossil fuels, but car companies and airlines are trying to keep us shackled to them. As Alan said, the climate change time bomb continues to tick, VERY loudly.
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@AnonymousSandwich Probably at the behest of the same forces behind the capitalist dictatorship in the US.
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@useodyseeorbitchute9450 I was not referring to a potential national high-speed rail network. I was referring to smaller regional projects. And do you not understand that the D and R Parties in the US are both bought and paid for by the same huge corporations and push only their agenda?
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@gameragodzilla But guess what? Private companies will not build passenger railways in the first place, because private companies see them as inherently unprofitable. Why else would you think the passenger rail networks in most European countries are state-owned? You are basically advocating for the continued dominance of the automobile in North America, which will not sit well with mother nature.
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"Wrong side of the tracks"?
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@brownjatt21 Not 93701? No wait, that's 559. 95350 is 209.
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LA and SF land prices instead skyrocketing.
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Because I was one of the people who pointed it out, and I am not even a Californian. I live on Vancouver Island. 😉
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@FreewayBrent Which means you are not willing to pay attention to the ticking time bomb that is climate change, huh? Opting to fly or drive means you are complicit in humanity being put on the trolley track to accelerated extinction.
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