<story><title>The United States needs to learn how to learn</title><url>https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/28/the-united-states-needs-to-learn-how-to-learn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>I’m not convinced that bringing in European managers will solve the distances between cities, the fact that the rails and right-of-ways are almost entirely privately owned, and the fact that Americans are generally comfortable with an auto and airplane model of transportation.&lt;p&gt;I use rail when I visit multiple European cities. It’s great. I also don’t see a reasonable path that is “we need better managers” but instead “we either need to pour gigantic piles of money into buying railroads, which is either an eminent domain taking or a massive giveaway to freight companies who own the rails now, only to find that no one wants to spend every bit of a whole damn day getting from Boston to Las Vegas and so will fly anyway.”</text></comment>
<story><title>The United States needs to learn how to learn</title><url>https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/28/the-united-states-needs-to-learn-how-to-learn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tims33</author><text>There is no doubt that America needs to get much better at rail and other mass transit and that there is a lot to be learned from the rest of the world. The challenge is that America is not Europe in many ways, but particularly in geography. And yet there is a certain condescension that America has to do it like Europe. That is a message that will never be well received delivered in that way.</text></comment>