• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Infrastructure? How many cars had blowouts hitting potholes this week? How many railroad cars derailed? How many power lines were downed by trees?

    • Dan Hartz@mastodon.social
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      1 year ago

      @FlyingSquid lots: probably thousands of blowouts and power lines, about a couple dozen derailed cars.

      How many miles of paved highways in the US? How many people transported via rail, & over what distances over the past week? How many miles of power lines are up? How many miles repaired?
      Development doesn’t mean perfection and/or things never needing repair; it’s more about having the infrastructure that needs to be repaired.

      You ignored GDP. What do you define as a “developed” nation?

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        1 year ago

        I was curious about the number of passengers carried by rail, so I looked at the wikipedia page. The US is 12th with 533 million passengers in 2019, which I find surprisingly low when compared to the population/size of this country. In France, same year, there was 1880 million passengers. I don’t think the rail infrastructure is well developed in the US, probably to the benefit of car infrastructure.