The U.S. moved 2.16 trillion tonne kilometer of freight on rail alone in 2023. The UK moved a total of 167 billion tonne-kilometer in 2023 on all forms of transit. Are there parts that need constant updates and improvements? Sure. Is our infrastructure so bad that we cant move significantly more freight over significantly more vast distances on a regular basis? No. To call it worn out is demonstrably not true.
Don't know why people's instant response to a factual argument on here is to try to insult the persons home country when we are talking about a US-China comparison 🤷♂️
The government in the states has acknowledged that the infrastructure is tired. I didn't come up with it. That's why there was the infrastructure bill a while ago.
And yeah a smaller country moves less than a bigger country. Surprise of the century right there.
Who insulted the UK? The point was to present a perspective of the amount of freight that is moving annually by comparing it to a country you’re presumably familiar with and to show that if the U.S. infrastructure were actually “tired and worn out” then we wouldn’t be able to move that much freight unimpeded. It was not to thumb my nose at you because we’re larger than you. Also weird that it’s 2 am in England right now, but 10 am in China.
Do you have a counter argument apart from China rail good US rail failing, don’t be mean to the UK?
It's not unimpeded. Ask any of the towns that have had derailments.
And you achieve it by having oversized freight trains that take up multiple paths and because it would increase the cost to run multiple trains due to needing more crew.
And yes I am in Shanghai right now but I live in Manchester in the UK. I spend some time here for work hence why I have experienced their railways a fair amount.
Our railway network is also an aging piece of infrastructure because we invented it. Our loading gauge is tiny compared to the rest of the world.
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u/Appropriate_Milk_775 VIRGINIA 🕊️🏕️ 1d ago
The U.S. moved 2.16 trillion tonne kilometer of freight on rail alone in 2023. The UK moved a total of 167 billion tonne-kilometer in 2023 on all forms of transit. Are there parts that need constant updates and improvements? Sure. Is our infrastructure so bad that we cant move significantly more freight over significantly more vast distances on a regular basis? No. To call it worn out is demonstrably not true.