• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Canada’s excuse is “we’re roughly as big as the US but have a way smaller population and GDP. I really don’t think it’d be financially justifiable for them to build a rail equivalent to the trans-Canadian highway. It’d be a non-starter in a political sense.

    The US, on the other hand… yeah. We genuinely have no excuse.

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      1 year ago

      A majority of Canada’s population lives in a straight line from Toronto to Québec, but they can’t even manage that.