This is a new one: this fellow is saying Japan's excellent railway network is a myth because it...is busy and goes everywherehttps://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1003911876915486721 …
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But its not like the Japanese model can't be applied area-by-area. No one's asking you to connect Austin to NYC but Houston roads look like this and there's still not one commuter railpic.twitter.com/GcgXOF6hW7
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Houston roads may be bad sometimes but you're using a misleading picture from a past hurricane evacuation.
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…something also easier with trains running emergency schedule?
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Long-distance passenger rail doesn't work in the US. We know it doesn't because we used to have it and when the horseless carriage was invented it fucking murdered it with great efficiency. But urban light rail? Well...
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... the incompetence is so fucking thick and fast with all the municipalities who've attempted it that I honestly can't tell if it's simply unworkable in our cities as built, or if incompetents have just fucked it up at every single goddamned turn, it's that big a mess.
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Little bit of both. In Detroit, retrofitting mass transit onto the mile roads can never happen because of the 10-15 minute walks to the mile roads, and there aren't half-mile infills. However... best practices exist for a reason, and we don't do any of that.
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The basic problem is that transportation is a 3-way tradeoff between: * Speed * Distance between stops * Capacity. Roads get a 7 on the speed, a 10 on the stops, and a 2 on the capacity.
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