I was listening to a show (well there's your problem) talking about the failures of the american freight railway. If we think for a minute, railroads are WAY c

I was listening to a show (well there's your problem) talking about the failures of the american freight railway. If we think for a minute, railroads are WAY cheaper to set up and maintain, compared to a road covering the same route. They are also more fuel efficient than cars. We could have a system where parcels are brought to your towns post office by train, you get to the post office by feet. Freight is also much cheaper to move by train, but poor management moved a LOT of freight out of trains into trucks, because we are in a "just in time" manufacturing paradigm (you want to hold as little inventory as possible and receive loads when they need to be processed), where the flexibility of trucks beats trains. The sunk cost of roads puts us in a weird, uncomfortable place if we want to move forward with a more efficient/green transportation.