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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      …our railways were ineffective for passenger travel—Americans *needed* cars to be able to travel pragmatically

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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      Postscript: I think part of the reason our railways were optimized away from riders was due to an odd sense of “competition”

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      That is, private railways weren’t willing to expand their ridership in a way that’d significantly expand ridership on another railway too

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      When you make it easy for passengers to switch between railway companies, BOTH companies can see ridership growth

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    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      Because all the stops on *your* line can now connect people to that many new destinations; many more trips become possible

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      And people will still use your railway to get to the point of transfer—this applies to both (or more) companies that intersect

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    7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      This is true for passengers but not freight, because freight packages don’t get off one train and onto another…

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    8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      For freight to switch from 1 company to another, the actual tracks must connect—passengers just need to be able to use one station for both

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    9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      So, in the US, rail companies tended to locate their *junctions* outside the center of town, in industrial areas

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    10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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      While locating their *stations* closer to businesses and residences

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016

      There is money to make in passenger service, but *only if people can easily transfer between lines*

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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          Otherwise you do not have a rail NETWORK, you only have a collection of individual rail LINES

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          So. All this said, is there any hope for rail in the USA in the future? Sure, but with important caveats…

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          The first, most important caveat is that creating new service must start small, where it makes the MOST sense, and build out from there

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          This is why I concentrate exclusively on New England. There is a viable starting point (Boston), and a modest scope for growth…

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          …so I don’t get distracted in what sort of rail connections will work in, say, rural Arkansas. I focus on the network *centered in Boston*

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        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          Second big caveat—it won’t work if past mistakes are repeated. Optimize for passengers if you want passenger!

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        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          As for the spread out aesthetic—this is the single largest obstacle. Narrow streets are largely *banned* in the USA, and even if legal…

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        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          …nobody has any recent experience building them. Indeed, they tend to come into existence in the first place largely unplanned!

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        10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          The best that can be done here, I think, is to show Americans what narrow streets *actually look like,* this is where the internet is good

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        11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          Accounts like @IAmDavidBoxall and @NathanNWE, among many others, tweet lots of beautiful examples—rather like I try to do with actual trains

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        12. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          One thing to note--wherever passenger traffic in the USA *was* very busy, different companies consolidated their stations

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        13. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          This is why so many larger cities and towns have a "Union Station," like the one here in Northampton

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        14. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 30 Oct 2016
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          So there are two additional advantages to focusing on New England: many large settlements from the colonial era, and better networking

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