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Fixed rail is, well, fixed. If it doesn't exist where you are at the moment, or go where you want to go, that's too bad. Is that not true of roads? If there is
by EliRivers 8y ago
Fixed rail is, well, fixed. If it doesn't exist where you are at the moment, or go where you want to go, that's too bad.
Is that not true of roads? If there is no road right now where I want to go, I'm out of luck. Or do you mean than no new rail is being laid? That doesn't fit my observations. I see new rail and new stations.
I wonder if you've got a specific context; perhaps you're thinking of small regions of the USA? Many of us (myself included) do not live in the USA. The USA is notoriously bad at rail.
- CamperBob2 8y agoTake a look out your window... all of your windows. Roads are already pretty much everywhere, for better or worse. Rails are not. I believe that we should be working on forms of transit, both new and old, that take advantage of the infrastructure we already have. The USA's geography is very different from places like Europe and Japan, if that's where you're coming from. Centralized transit is a lot more effective in places where 200 km is considered a long distance, and where the bulk of the population is already compressed into compact urban centers.