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
Japan has a nationwide freight network which is barely used, because the freight that makes most sense to ship by train...
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...ie cheap, heavy, in bulk, going long distances, is sent by sea instead (shore is never far from anywhere in the country!)
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I didn't know that about their freight network but it makes sense.
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it uses the same tracks as the passenger network, generally
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yeah I figure the difference between passenger and freight is at the destinations, not the long stretches between.
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although I recall reading about passenger trains getting stuck for hours because there aren't alway a proper bypass
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in Japan? very unlikely, if not impossible--but elsewhere, more common, in the USA, extremely common
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also this is rail, not roads! it's a signaling issue, not a bypass issue--bad schedules not bad infrastructure
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