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It's incredible the money and logistical thinking devoted to highway construction and maintenance compared to almost any other kind of infrastructure in America
by titzer 5y ago
It's incredible the money and logistical thinking devoted to highway construction and maintenance compared to almost any other kind of infrastructure in America. Like, imagine they decided trains were as high a priority.
- blamazon 5y agoThey did, it's just privately owned, maintained, and operated by freight companies. [1] [1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-North-American-Rail-System_fig2_228943749 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-North-American-Rail-...
- titzer 5y agoThe rail networks in the US are actually dwindling [1], from a peak of ~250,000 route miles in the 1920s to less than 100,000 today. The USDOT maintains over 4 million miles of highway. [1] https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/railroad_route_miles.html https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/railroad_route_miles...
- bombcar 5y agoMost of that is because of trucks for last mile. Whereas trains used to go right into factories they don’t even slow down in the same towns now.