Yeah why would this country want a high speed rail network when our airports look like this? pic.twitter.com/cS6KplbvVB

— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) December 22, 2023

I guess he hasn’t seen Paddington Station in London, or Gare du Nord in Paris, near Christmas, because they’re actually worse. I think passenger train expansion in the US is a great idea, but it’s not a unicorn farting perfume atop a rainbow.

Dude actually picked the worst time to try this argument, because the Eurotunnel workers went on strike yesterday with no warning, which means no Eurostar trains and no car shuttle service. It was a complete zoo, on one of the heaviest travel days of the year and for lots of people with small kids. So thousands of people were stuck overnight with nowhere to go, and unlike airlines, the train companies absolutely will not put you up in a hotel or give you meal vouchers or anything like that.