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transitthrow
10y ago
(I pulled these numbers off Wikipedia, but they seem about right.) Light rail can carry up to 13,000 passengers per direction per hour. A highway lane carries up to 1,900 cars per lane per hour. It takes about 6 lanes of highways to match 1
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transitthrow
10y ago
I felt compelled to create an account because of this misconception (not really your comment, just within the whole thread) that mass transit isn't already automated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train