If you say so--european freight still generally goes by road, thoughpic.twitter.com/RMmGsmK5n5
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Isn't it? You could say the same about how many airports we built vs seaports or train terminals
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.
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).
Anyway, my point from the get-go still stands: it's not clear how much more freight we realistically *can* carry by rail, as we already carry a greater share by rail than most other industrialized countries, whereas those with better passenger rail mode shares carry less freight.
That's more of a point about your imagination than about what can be "realistically" (a huge weasel word) done.
What can realistically be done is increase rail's mode share in passenger traffic, reducing the mode share for private cars. This would have a larger impact on public safety & the environment than getting even more of our freight traffic onto trains, bc cars are so dominant.
Sorry, I'm really not interested in other people's unsubstantiated speculation about what can realistically be done. If that's all that's realistic, then realistically we're all screwed anyway.https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/02/political-realities.html …
Literally right here in your linked article--the limitations of short-haul rail freight are not about policy but about physics, which is why *nowhere in the world,* no matter how pro-rail, is pulling it offpic.twitter.com/q1G7lw861n
Again, that's a limitation on your imagination, not on physics. No government in the world is pro-rail enough to build a freight distribution system without any trucks.
Either - the entire world is unimaginative, or - you're overlooking a physical constraint Which is more likely?
Have you *seen* the entire world?
Whereas from the 1830s for several decades, railway building was in the ascendancy, and the canals and turnpikes neglected.
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