That's why Europe sends more cargo by truck. Because their train network is for passengers.
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Replying to @MeadBadger
no, it's because typical freight shipping distances are lower, cities larger and more common
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Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger
their network isn't "for passengers," but it carries far more passengers for the same reason
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Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger
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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Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger
...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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Replying to @380kmh
I didn't know that about their freight network but it makes sense.
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Replying to @MeadBadger
it uses the same tracks as the passenger network, generally
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Replying to @380kmh
yeah I figure the difference between passenger and freight is at the destinations, not the long stretches between.
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Replying to @MeadBadger @380kmh
although I recall reading about passenger trains getting stuck for hours because there aren't alway a proper bypass
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Replying to @MeadBadger
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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