>>1518372>What's bad about itI just don't see the point. You get a slightly smaller footprint in comparison to normal buslanes, but you have to build a highy specialised infrastructure thats good for nothing else. The pre-cast concrete parts are probably more expensive than a regular road and i'd guess that its pretty hard to find replacement parts these days. Only a handful of cities worldwide have ever fallen into this trap concieved by bus manufacturers. Most of them have realised their mistake by now, only UK cities seem to love these things.
>What leftists on /n/ don't talk about is that the incompetence of government and astronomical construction costs are transit/HSR's biggest enemy, not muh nimbys/muh big oil/muh airlines. I've seen a fair bit of leftist criticism on HSR, all in the like of "draining money from the public rail system for the jet-set elite". It's not as vocal these days, but in the 80s/90s that was a pretty widely publicised opinion, at least here in germany. I think it's also fair to say that without public involvement modern HSR wouldn't even exist. Both the Shinkansen and the TGV were planned and built by state-run railways.
