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> Live in the city and want to go hiking 20 miles away? No reason trains can't solve this. When I lived in NYC there was plenty of hiking off the NJ transit. P
by notJim 7y ago
> Live in the city and want to go hiking 20 miles away?
No reason trains can't solve this. When I lived in NYC there was plenty of hiking off the NJ transit. Popular hiking destinations here in the PNW have huge problems with traffic that would be helped greatly by building rail lines to them.
- tomerico 7y agoWhy create new rail lines when driverless cars can take you anywhere?
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- notJim 7y agoDoes nothing about the traffic problem, massively wasteful of electricity and other resources that will have to go into replacing every single car.
- novok 7y agoThere is a throughput issue. Driverless cars with 4 people a car in a lane (or a bus lane) will do ~6000/people/hour if you are optimistic. A train 'lane' will on the other hand will do 32'000/people/hour. Non-bus lanes do 1500/hour, so a train is equivalent to a 21 lane highway, one way. [0] I think driverless cars are a great adapter / collector last mile technology for suburbs to go to the train station, but if somewhere has traffic problems now, it will have traffic problems with driverless cars too. After a certain point you need to put in trains. [0] https://www.theurbanist.org/2016/05/26/the-supply-and-demand-of-street-space/ https://www.theurbanist.org/2016/05/26/the-supply-and-demand...