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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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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Here's a fun one: Here in Jax, FL some developer built a subdivision with only one road in/out, at a train track crossing.
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The residents occasionally get stuck in/out for hours at a time when there's a cargo train traffic jam
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those poor bastards, f
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anyway, okay, right, if you can displace enough cars you can not build/tear up to save money. Each extra lane has marginal $
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if you are displacing cars as you describe then you are already way over demand, waste of time and money
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ie--adding railways when roads are already sufficient
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I was thinking about how America is at a point where it needs to rebuild/replace a ton of infatracuture anyway.
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And self-driving cars (IMO) will lead to mass non-ownership for fist time in a century. So we can rethink what to replace it with.
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