Originally posted by Mobycat:
Originally posted by porsche996:
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Quit your bitching. Europe's mass transit ISN'T any better than ours. It's just that they don't have to travel as far to get from one end of a country to another.
Have you ever ridden Amtrak? Yeah? Well...tell me how do I get to Las Vegas...from ANYWHERE?
Washington DC to Chicago - it takes 18 hours. For 697 miles.
High Speed? Forget it. Acela isn't fast by any stretch of the imagination.
Let's not even touch Greyhound...that's a joke bringing them up.[/b]I agree, and I HAVE been to Europe (Germany, France, and Austria). Our mass transit system is SHIT compared to Europe's. You can get hourly trains to just about anywhere. In America you might be able to get three Greyhounds a day. Comparing Europe's clean, fast, and on time trains to America's Greyhounds is a F&%@ing JOKE! I've ridden trains in Europe that go 225 KPH (thats 140 MPH for the metrically challenged) try that on a Greyhound or Amtrak. People in Europe also use bicycles which they can take on any train (they have special cars for bicycles) you CAN'T take a bicycle on a Greyhound (well you can take a disassembled, boxed bicycle for an extra fee), I don't know about Amtrak I've never ridden one, the closest station is in Atlanta approx 100 milea away. In Europe you can get a train in ANY city. And as for the countries in Europe being smaller, people in Europe cross borders just like we cross state lines.
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