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Trains kill lots of people and the noise is excruciating. They also impede other traffic when at grade, and require massively expensive carbon guzzling infrastr
by erosenbe0 5y ago
Trains kill lots of people and the noise is excruciating. They also impede other traffic when at grade, and require massively expensive carbon guzzling infrastructure when not at grade. The stations are often designed or located more optimally for getting freight to and from, rather than people.
The bathrooms are less claustrophobic though.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Trains kill lots of people Vastly fewer, per passenger mile, then passenger cars, comparable to busses, less than scheduled airline flights.
- cogman10 5y agoYeah, this seems like a weird argument against trains. Every mode of transport will kill some people. Trains just happen to be one of the safest there is. Heck, if you think about heart attacks, walking likely kills more people than trains do.
- Karrot_Kream 5y ago> require massively expensive carbon guzzling infrastructure when not at grade If you think that building rail viaducts and rail grade separations are carbon expensive, wait till you learn about the carbon used for roadway viaducts and roadway grade separations. You can argue that rails usually run on much more consistent of a grade than roadways but that's only to decrease the amount of acceleration that's required by train cars and to increase top speeds. Freight rail is a special case because freight companies try to avoid as much wear-and-tear on their train cars as feasible within their delivery windows, unlike passenger rail which necessarily cares more about speed and less about wear-and-tear.