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It'd be far worse to have scheduled bus routes and train tracks cutting across the vast wilderness than the occasional electric vehicle cruising through.
by explaininjs 4y ago
It'd be far worse to have scheduled bus routes and train tracks cutting across the vast wilderness than the occasional electric vehicle cruising through.
- eppp 4y agoDepends on how much energy the train uses. I would guess that the maintenance and supporting infrastructure for the 'occasional' car would dwarf the cost of a railway.
- rootusrootus 4y agoIt would be difficult to eliminate the road, however, so that infrastructure is going to exist either way.
- virgildotcodes 4y agoHuh, as opposed to the roads and highways cutting across the vast wilderness that we have now?
- explaininjs 4y agoNot really sure what (if any) claim you're making here. I'm defining wilderness above to be "those areas without sufficient road infrastructure to support heavy vehicles like busses", if that helps clarify.
- tsudounym 4y agoA double track train line can move orders of magnitude more people than a 30-lane highway can. Cars and highways are space inefficient, and highways cause property values surrounding it to decrease due to the pollution and noise.
- kelnos 4y agoYou're not really responding to what the parent poster said. We're not talking about 30-lane highways, we're talking about a small one-lane road that only needs to serve tens of people per day. A train route for that is absurd.
- tsudounym 4y agoBecause of the space inefficiency of cars, you end up building and widening way too may roads, destroying the countryside. Trains allow you keep development contained without spoiling the countryside. Forgot where I saw this, but a Swiss women used to see lines of trucks in her village until the government heavily promoted electrified freight rail. Now there's little to no trucks in her village.
- explaininjs 4y agoBasically anywhere in Europe (Switzerland especially) is incomparable to the "vast wilderness" I described above. I speak of roads where a "busy day" is more than (say) 3 light vehicles traveling.