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i see that you are trying to be sarcastic, but you are more correct than you would like to think. in the old USSR, it did take ages to get any public works projects done. roads ran up to a river, and continued on the other side - with no bridge!
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All countries have transportation problems. Open a map for Colorado Springs. We let the real estate agents make are roads!
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In the middle east, railroads pass from oil wells to refineries, going through cities but not stopping in them. because they are wells and refineries that belong to the western world, and theres no use in spending money trying to develop the third world. you poke fun at the idea, but who the hell is going to fund a subway system in the Sudan? its not worth the time or money, and it would just be destroyed in a civil war anyway.
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Iran and Turkey have many railroads that were made even before oil was being refined. Oil is often moved by pipe line.
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The world would stand to benefit from a standardized public transit system, and the US did pioneer alot of it. do you know how many different railroad gauges there are in the UK? you cant move a train from one track to another!
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And USA railroads have always been standardized?
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The computing world needs standards too. but free commerce dictates that the only standards we will have will be of the defacto sort. and our rails will never be standardized. and in the US, are rails will never be fully utilized because of the oil, tire, and highway industries that keep mass transit suppressed.
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The GNU community IS making GUI standards. They ARE working with Mac and Solaris. KDE and Mac have been handing code back and forth for a long time now; they are both using khtml. Everybody is complying with the w3c BUT IE. As Thermodyne pointed out IPv6 is coming (slowly though).