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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @MeadBadger

      no, it's because typical freight shipping distances are lower, cities larger and more common

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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger

      their network isn't "for passengers," but it carries far more passengers for the same reason

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
      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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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
      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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    5. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      I didn't know that about their freight network but it makes sense.

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @MeadBadger

      it uses the same tracks as the passenger network, generally

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    7. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      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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    8. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @MeadBadger @380kmh

      The residents occasionally get stuck in/out for hours at a time when there's a cargo train traffic jam

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    9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @MeadBadger

      those poor bastards, f

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    10. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      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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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
      Replying to @MeadBadger

      if you are displacing cars as you describe then you are already way over demand, waste of time and money

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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger

          ie--adding railways when roads are already sufficient

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        3. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          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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        4. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @MeadBadger @380kmh

          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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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @MeadBadger

          self-driving cars will (afaik) still run on ordinary roads; you only need rail where roads alone can't cope w demand...

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger

          ...and in those places, you need road AND rail to meet travel needs

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        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger

          think of it like the second deck on a bus, maybe--you don't remove the first level when you add the second, etc (weak analogy)

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        8. Adam Emmanuel Blackstone  🕊 🥃 🎲 🚠 🚀 💹 ☦️‏ @MeadBadger 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          that's exactly where I started with, thinking you need to pay for both networks.

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        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @MeadBadger

          right but u see what I'm saying about u only build the "second" network when you have 2 networks worth of users, right?

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        1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Feb 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @MeadBadger

          what is the base unit of transportation? it's not the car...

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