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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Giant infrastructure projects are a weakness of democracies.

What about the high-speed networks in France, Japan, Spain and Germany?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

France is smaller than Texas. Every nation you mention was not a democracy during most of their rail construction. It is vastly easier to engage in large construction projects in authoritarian states because you don't have to care about a voting populace.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Sorry to bust your bubble but first high speed line in Spain started in 1992. Democracy in Spain started in 1977. And in Germany or France I'm pretty sure high speed trains where made when they were also democracies.

Normal speed rail can handle high speed. They have to build new ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

All of them were democracies when they built their high speed rail networks.