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The Netherlands does cargo on rail just fine and has the busiest network in EU.
by Beldin 3y ago
The Netherlands does cargo on rail just fine and has the busiest network in EU.
- lispm 3y agoNetherlands has just two neighbour countries and 1/10 of the network. Most of its rail cargo goes into and through Germany.
- layer8 3y agoThis is the Dutch rail network: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Railway_Map_The_Netherlands.svg/508px-Railway_Map_The_Netherlands.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Ra... And this is the German rail network: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Bahnstrecken_Deutschland_Karte.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Bahnstre... Germany has almost 14 times as many rail stations as the Netherlands, and over ten times as many rail kilometres.
- Moldoteck 3y agoSo why not just copy NL infra 14 times across Germany? If every subpart of Germany has same quality as NL, general quality will still improve
- layer8 3y agoBecause those 14 parts would be highly interconnected with each other. You couldn’t actually treat them as 14 separate parts. They aren’t compartmentalized like different countries’ networks are. This is a bit similar to how a 14-core processor doesn’t give you 14 times the performance of a single core if the cores have to communicate and coordinate with each other.