That's more of a point about your imagination than about what can be "realistically" (a huge weasel word) done.
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Replying to @capntransit @uncriticalsimon
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.
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Replying to @380kmh @uncriticalsimon
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 …
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Replying to @capntransit @uncriticalsimon
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
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Replying to @380kmh @uncriticalsimon
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.
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Replying to @capntransit @uncriticalsimon
Either - the entire world is unimaginative, or - you're overlooking a physical constraint Which is more likely?
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Replying to @capntransit @uncriticalsimon
lmao have you? if there's a country you know of which has eliminated trucks from its logistics, I'm very interested to hear about it
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Replying to @380kmh @uncriticalsimon
Are you telling me it's impossible for everyone in the world to keep doing the same stupid thing for decades, if not centuries? If you are, then you're the one who needs to look at political realities.
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The "automatic electric system" was supposed to be freight rail between Jersey, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. The governments chose to back trucking instead.
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If anyone sabotaged that plan, it was the railroads: https://sites.temple.edu/whenroads/files/2016/12/Journal-of-Planning-History-2010-Shell-3-20.pdf … Assuming of course that the plan was remotely practical in the first place--it sounds an awful lot like PRT (or more recently, Hyperloop)
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