North America still in the rail dark ages...
Living in Europe sure has its advantages, especially with respect to public transport. In the UK alone there were 1.3 billion passenger journeys last year!
While North America (with it's admittedly different demographic) seeks to suck the planet dry of its last drop of oil so its citizens can drive around with a tonne or more of heavy steel each to protect them, or fly from city to city moving carbon from deep underground up into the upper atmosphere where it all heats us up unnecessarily, while decrying the building of passenger railways as some kind a socialist plot; the rest of the world cries with laughter over their stupidity and cries with despair over their waste.
Please wake up over there, you're screwing it up for everyone else. And yes, I am an American... the shame of it.
