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Do you have a train station in front of your house and any target destination you can imagine wanting to go to? Because most people don't.
by Longhanks 3y ago
Do you have a train station in front of your house and any target destination you can imagine wanting to go to? Because most people don't.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoMaybe if we built more of those, more people would be within walking distance of them.
- ImprobableTruth 3y agoTrains for local transportation make no sense. Trams for high-throughput and buses for everything else is the only sensible thing for local public transport.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoWorks well in Japan.
- Sargos 3y agoWhen I was in Japan a decade ago trains were only used between cities. I doubt that's changed.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoI can't fathom how you got this impression. It would be like a visitor to the US saying that in their experience, cars are only used for travel between cities.
- School-Cotton 3y ago> Trains for local transportation make no sense. Plenty of people take trains for local transportation every day.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoTrams and metros however are quite reasonable.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoI’ve kind of just considered trams, metros, and trains to be the same thing. Their just different scales of wheels following tracks/
- worik 3y ago> Trains for local transportation make no sense Depends what you mean by "local". For the :last mile", well duh. But for journeys over 20km there is nothing like trains for efficiently moving vast numbers of people.
- berkes 3y agoYes. And yes. I live in the Netherlands and we have this. Because it is what people want and need. And because it's been invested in for decades. And because it has a way higher ROI than car infra.
- yread 3y agoWell the road infra has also been invested in heavily. Dutch highways are the best
- berkes 3y agoYup. It's not an either/or as many seem to think. Public Transport works best in addition and next to cars, bikes, and such. It's mixing and combining that offers the true value.
- worik 3y ago> I live in the Netherlands and we have this. Because it is what people want and need. And because it's been invested in for decades. And because it has a way higher ROI than car infra. That would be those incompetent Eurocrats....
- rdlw 3y agoDo you have a self driving car? Because no one does.
- panick21_ 3y agoMaybe the all the money invested in self driving and EV insentives and insane highways and stroads maybe you could afford decent public transit.
- worik 3y ago> Do you have a train station in front of your house There is one 100 metres from my house. I cannot catch trains at it because some reason I do not understand the powers that be will spend zillions on roads and SFA on rail tracks. I also know that the companies that run the rail system have not updated their logistics as if it is the twenty first century. I cannot pt a box on the railways, and pick it up in another city, faster than driving it be truck no matter how well I plan it. I can track my goods on road transport close to real time.