German here: please learn from our mistakes and try to keep it in the hand of the government if possible. Private companies that maintain rail systems will only destroy it. Trustme.
Come to the UK and marvel at our range of privatised services. It’s poetry in motion! Not that I’d dare think what would have happened in the past 13 years of glorious Conservative ‘governance’ had anything been in public ownership…
Having multiple companies using the same state owned tracks would be even better. Competition is always good, and you really don’t want a monopoly, which is what you’d most likely get with everything being state owned.
We’ve got one big railway in Austria (ÖBB), which is owned by the government. And then we’ve got one smaller, private one (WESTbahn) which only goes to certain cities and in a certain direction. The private one’s prices are usually way better, even though they pay the government to be able to use the rails.
Teal line really should be going to at least Duluth (city at the western point of lake Superior). It’s so weird that it stops at the twin cities. I’m guessing the person who made this map doesn’t know much about Minnesota.
My programmer’s dream is to use a geodata map of the US with population and visitor statistics to make a slime mold map to use as the transit model.
Geodata because I want it to account for terrain in addition to population and visitor data.
I also want to include the national parks system in it just because it can revitalize the whole thing with stationside hotels for people to leave their junk at while they’re in the parks.
The blue green are just a merged line I think. Florida is. Kst heavily populated on its coasts and then part way down you have the ver glades. Of you look at a map of Florida now this is more or less what I75 and I95 do.
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