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Yes and when those shortcomings exist, a robot lane added to existing route sounds like a fine idea. See: HSR in the California Central Valley. The I5 is too
by lttlrck 3y ago
Yes and when those shortcomings exist, a robot lane added to existing route sounds like a fine idea.
See: HSR in the California Central Valley.
The I5 is too narrow already, it needs widening and the HSR won't fix that. Adding car rental and expanding the local transit solutions at each station along the route will balloon its cost to extremes. It's already unacceptable.
- dangus 3y agoAh yes, highway projects are cheap, transit projects are expensive. Classic. If trains don’t take cars off the road, we have to explain why Chicago doesn’t have a 26 lane highway but Houston does despite being a similarly sized metro area. Where do all the cars go when over 20 million passenger trips take place on Chicago public transit every MONTH? Houston’s numbers are at least 4x less from what I can tell. California needs to withdraw from the cat drug, not up the dosage.
- runarberg 3y agoEven in California. If you compare the Transbay tube to the Bay Bridge, you really see how the Bay Area simply could not function as currently without BART. The tube services around 27,000 people at peak hour per direction, while the bridge only services just over 14,000 people (in 9,000 cars). Without the tube you’d need two additional 10 lane bridges to service peak demand. And that just wouldn’t be possible. https://youtu.be/HbZXtSnabWc?si=-mWIkQg3gTV-ZSMe&t=227 https://youtu.be/HbZXtSnabWc?si=-mWIkQg3gTV-ZSMe&t=227