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I've ridden this route several times. The main riders of that line are to or from the small towns along that route to a big town a state or two over. People dri
by coryrc 5y ago
I've ridden this route several times. The main riders of that line are to or from the small towns along that route to a big town a state or two over. People drive or get dropped off at the station from the whole region. Remove those and you aren't going to have many customers.
- saalweachter 5y agoI feel like there's some realization crystalizing for me in this thread. Something like "planes are point to point transit, trains facilitate a linear flow of people".
- josefx 5y agoThere are high speed trains that only stop at a limited amount of stations along a track. Of course that requires that the track itself is rated for a high enough speed and going by the map in the article that is still a work in progress in several European countries.