Apparently you’ve never seen traffic in the US. We have a great highway system and a great airport system with many travelers. Too many. Way too many. Not only huge amounts of congestion for cars but huge amounts of congestion for flights, both in the air and on the ground. In the US, only a few cities have widely used transit and only one corridor has practical intercity rail. There’s lots of room for more. It needs to have regular service and be faster than cars to be useful. And it would be perfect everywhere there are two cities up to a few hundred miles apart …. Which covers like 80% of our population
In the US, highways do not pay for themselves in direct costs. Gasoline taxes haven’t gone up in decades, most roads don’t have tolls, and even those who do don’t cover their costs. Roads aren’t directly profitable so why do we have a different standard for rail?
How is this relevant? Sure the states that are oil producing collect taxes from oil producers. It’s a huge benefit especially to Alaska since they can support a soverigb wealth fund but others as well.
However that is not relevant to whether highways are directly profitable
Note that many US trains are diesel, so if you think oil production is a big enough benefit to the economy, it’s also thanks to rail
How is you and 48 other people asking whether high ways are profitable relevant? I said I used profitibility as a metric of its usage as trains meant to transport an absolute fuck ton of people
And why do you only have an issue with the topic you started when it turns out that you lied?
And you don’t see the hypocrisy of using profitability as a metric for trains yet claiming profitability of highways as irrelevant? This inconsistency is exactly my point.
No, the two are not comperative! Roads are not necessarily high ways; comparatively expensive (tho not nearly as so) and meant to conduct large traffic! Though I am sure you could make a comperative example if you even pretended to be good faith! Though fucking again, if a high way was constructed into the fucking nowhere, running through nowhere I would be angry for wasting so much money… Which, fucking again, is my problem
Thats not a yes or no question! Once again, why do you suddenly have an issue with a topic YOU started once it turned out that your assumption, for which you again LIED, was proven to be false?
If facts are not on our side lets make them up
How is this relevant? Sure the states that are oil producing collect taxes from oil producers. It’s a huge benefit especially to Alaska since they can support a soverigb wealth fund but others as well.
However that is not relevant to whether highways are directly profitable
Note that many US trains are diesel, so if you think oil production is a big enough benefit to the economy, it’s also thanks to rail
How is you and 48 other people asking whether high ways are profitable relevant? I said I used profitibility as a metric of its usage as trains meant to transport an absolute fuck ton of people
And why do you only have an issue with the topic you started when it turns out that you lied?
And you don’t see the hypocrisy of using profitability as a metric for trains yet claiming profitability of highways as irrelevant? This inconsistency is exactly my point.
And no
No, the two are not comperative! Roads are not necessarily high ways; comparatively expensive (tho not nearly as so) and meant to conduct large traffic! Though I am sure you could make a comperative example if you even pretended to be good faith! Though fucking again, if a high way was constructed into the fucking nowhere, running through nowhere I would be angry for wasting so much money… Which, fucking again, is my problem
Thats not a yes or no question! Once again, why do you suddenly have an issue with a topic YOU started once it turned out that your assumption, for which you again LIED, was proven to be false?