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> There's a few trucks hauling freight There's a lot of trucks hauling freight. The US has the largest train network in the world, it notoriously handles prim
by kube-system 2y ago
> There's a few trucks hauling freight
There's a lot of trucks hauling freight. The US has the largest train network in the world, it notoriously handles primarily freight, and still, more than 70% of freight in the US goes by truck.
If these roads are the average urban interstate highways, then about 10%ish of the traffic is heavy truck traffic.
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- msisk6 2y agoI meant there's few trucks during rush hour. Overnight it's a different story. Last month I was going down south I-35 around midnight and got stuck in construction traffic in Waco and it was about 80% trucks.
- kube-system 2y agoAh, I see. That's really just another reason why a 500k vehicles/day problem shouldn't be approximated as a problem of moving 500k people only during rush hour.