TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]

America might just be uniquely incompetent in this regard

Half of Canada’s entire population lives in a completely straight line barely over 1,000 km long, serviced by a train that barely averages 100km/h on a good day and has to give way to freight trains

It is sadly not unique

Petit boug pro car apologia? In my Hexbear? It’s more likely than you think

Main reason I want to emigrate, no lie

The fact that the Windsor-Quebec corridor is barely faster than driving (and often far slower) for luxury prices (200+ dollars sometimes for roundtrip on a train averaging 80kmh on a good day) is insane to me, let alone that the rest of the US northeast/Canadian southeast border area is barely connected. It is a full 12 hour day of travel to get to New York from Toronto or Montreal, which should be a few hours of HSR tops

Or in the dead of winter with bare trees and snow up to your shins, in the evening though so there’s no sun