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They are both passenger rail. It’s relevant because I responded to your claim that amtrack is the most popular public transportation. It’s not, NYC subway is. How is that not relevant? That’s still small, you can’t compare a small country with fewer people and little rail infrastructure and draw relevant conclusions. So when you properly compare to countries that have populations and rail infrastructure that is comparable you can draw relevant conclusions. Which is why in my last response I chose to compare it to the EU. I never talked about lack of regulations and the Feds interest in it. That would be you projecting. And also the lack of regulation is because of the 4 main rail companies that lobby to keep it the way it is. Not because of the government’s interest in the lack of regulation. I never claimed that the NYC subway moves hazmat. They are passenger rail not freight. Idk what “dots” you want me to connect, but you definitely need some better reading comprehension. I honestly do not understand how you think that US rail is publicly funded. It is not. The railroad companies own the railroads and maintain them. There is 750 miles of rail that amtrack directly owns. They have cost-sharing agreements with states that they operate in, on lines less than 750 miles. Anything over 750 miles receives federal financial support. So the 750 miles that amtrack directly owns is publicly funded. And the rest that they use from the railroad companies gets some public funding. But that is still less than 22,000 miles compared to the 160,000 miles of US rail.
It's not relevant because they do not do hazmat at all, Amtrak rails are shared with commercial rail often including hazmat.
Yes you can, I can compare an apple and the planet Venus. You're confusing inability with inanity and you're still wrong, it's a reasonable comparison.
Agreed, it was my point and you can't seem to absorb it and on fact are arguing that the conflict doesn't exist because "Amtrak small". The 4 main companies that lobby a regulatory agency soft on actual regulation because of perverse federal incentive.
I didn't say you did, I said NYC subway is a shit comparison because it doesn't take part in the subject of the conversation. Tomatoes are delicious too but it's entirely irrelevant because it's not related to the subject in any way.
The feds own track that they find federally, are you actually too dense to accept your own position? Then you subsequently explain how exactly rail is publicly funded. Amazing.
I just can’t even. Like I explain how something like 23,000 miles of rail gets some public funding and you say that’s the entire 160,000 miles of rail. The only federal rail is the rail owned by amtrack, which is 750 miles.
I’m done. You’re too fucking dense, with the reading comprehension of a fucking brick. I literally answered all of that in my last comment.
Clearly. The amount is irrelevant, the incentive to not be regulated to make more profit is the save as any private company but private companies don't own and control regulatory agencies, the federal government does.
You didn't, and haven't. You're simply shitty at connect the dots. Apparently perverse incentive to you is a ok.
Holy fucking shit. The rail companies own the rail. Two federal agencies regulate rail and cargo on rail. The private companies that own the rail have an incentive to keep costs low. They do this by maintaining the rail as cheaply as they can. They also lobby the government to keep regulations relaxed so they don’t have to maintain as much. The government doesn’t care one single bit about the cost to maintain rail, their only incentive is taking the lobby money. Like maybe you should figure out how to connect the dots. And again reading comprehension is not your strong suit.
Sure, most of the rail aside from the 750 miles we both agree is 100% federally owned. You're being obtuse.
Why do you believe a for profit company ran by the government has any less motivation to have limited regulation for the purposes of making a larger profit.
This isn't hard you're just being dumb.
No, it’s not fucking federally owned. ONLY THE 750 MILES IS FEDERALLY OWNED. Again reading comprehension. I never said amtrack has any less motivation to have limited regulations. You are constantly shoving words down my throat that I never said, somehow coming to conclusions that are not even close to what I am saying. I’m just going to block you so I don’t have to deal with the mental capacity of a brick.
You again agreed 750 miles are owned by the federal government, where in my last comment did you read anything other than 750 miles.
No you're implying it my saying Amtrak's existence, federal ownership and greed are somehow totally unrelated to each other.
Go ahead, you're not making particular sense anyway though you do seem to actually get the point.