There’s also the very muddled announcement that to make it you’ll need to change trains at some small town.
Or, they just decide to not stop at your station, so you get to hop off past your station and ride a train back the way you came.
All that said, it’s still a miracle from God compared to the crap we have in the US.
Okay. Regardless of what it really is or not. I’ve decided I’m not voting for President Biden in the next election. Nor Hunter Biden. They’re both off my list as candidates.
Ah, the replacement mythos, blended with White Fascism and Christian Nationalist chaser. All badness all the way down.
International relations are often tough to build, especially when one side is quite rude and then wanting special benefits afterwards.
The UK cut the ties, so the EU has more say in how relations are rebuilt. The UK had a ton of special exemptions and their own national identity in the EU then many other members and the UK still freaked out about how oppressed they were.
The EU doesn’t really owe the UK anything that’s not in still existing agreements and if the UK wants a relationship they’ll have to come to the table bringing something, not just hurling demands.
I’m just really glad that the UK leaving the EU didn’t devolve into armed conflict. That’s a pretty normal arc for such a big relations change.
Who would have guessed that she’s corrupt? Strange that she’s acting just like her right wing anti-Constitution bosses on the Supreme Court. I wonder how that kind of corruption trickles down.
The Amtrak system in the US shares rail, and is low priority, than freight trains. Basically, passenger rail has always been a side business for the train companies the US. It is subsidized and used as a bribe by the federal government to even try to keep a passenger rail service alive.
That means our trains are often kept as slow speeds to stay behind freight trains, and will be stopped to wait for freight trains if some is off schedule. The routes are also mostly only rated for 60mph speeds, so even at full speed you’re barely keeping up with cars on the highway, and then you add in stops at every podunk town that slows it down even more.
Until the US invests in a separate passenger rail network that can support consistent speed and schedules, it will remain on par with similarly under developed nations for rail service.