There's a decent amount of express rail freight in Europe though.
How many highway lane-miles existed 70 years ago vs how many track-miles existed 70 years ago?
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Yes, exactly!
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You look at the EU or Japan, they also built a lot more highways than railways in the past 70 years. Ditto for countries like China more recently. The reason is obvious; highway construction was something new, while rail construction was fine-tuning something already extensive
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Oh, is that obvious?
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Isn't it? You could say the same about how many airports we built vs seaports or train terminals
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That was how they viewed it at the time, but if they had added as many track-miles as they did lane-miles it would have been a lot more than fine-tuning.
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At least the UK mostly avoided urban motorways. Mostly. A few did get built (notably the M8 in Glasgow which is basically an LA freeway in cold, wet Scotland).
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