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This is a great idea, but wouldn't paving more road be significantly cheaper and quicker than building rail infrastructure? I'm all for the US pouring money in
by shepherdjerred 4y ago
This is a great idea, but wouldn't paving more road be significantly cheaper and quicker than building rail infrastructure?
I'm all for the US pouring money into rail, but the fact is that we're _very_ bad at big infrastructure projects right now. That's not to say that we can't get better though.
- doctorwho42 4y agoThe problem we have seen over the last 100 years in highway infrastructure is that demand always increases to fill capacity. The greatest example of this is LA, which has some of the largest highways in the country but still has bumper to bumper traffic. You need to think about it on two metrics; (1) density of transport; how many people per unit volume (2) power to # of passengers. On both counts trains are vastly superior to almost all other modes of transit other than boat.