@380kmh one thing I've been thinking about is how trucks (like for plumbers or roofers or whatever) would get around in urbanism utopia
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Where I was going with this is that now you have two transport networks to pay for, roads AND rails.
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Roads can fully replace rails with enough busses and special lanes, but rails cannot fully replace roads.
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roads can't replace rails b/c rail advantage is geometric; rail can achieve thruput/width impossible on roads
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Not sure that will still be true with self-driving busses that can drive very closely together.
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the more ppl those buses need to carry per hour in the same space, the more they'll look like trains and need guided tracks
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I mean, I like trains. I'm attracted to the "aesthetic". I'm just thinking about land use and costs.
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for minimal land requirements and costs per capita, trains easily
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right, if it were one or the other. I get it. But you can't get rid of roads so if you add trains you have to pay for both.
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