• kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Till 2019, <1 % of total rail in US was electrified according to Wikipedia? Is this true; considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers? I know that privatisation of rail networks and car centred cities makes life tough for rails, but 1 % is abysmally low for a developed nation.

    In contrast, China is at 75% and India is at 93% respectively and both of them also have giant railway networks.