Interesting piece. I'd quibble with one point though: > The same situation occurs on railroads: all uses want the same piece of infrastructure, leading to the

Interesting piece. I'd quibble with one point though: > The same situation occurs on railroads: all uses want the same piece of infrastructure, leading to the usual problems of mixing trains of different speed classes on the same tracks. Freight bypasses are possible, but passenger bypasses are rare France has built thousands of miles of what are effectively passenger bypasses: their LGVs (Lignes a Grand Vitesse).