529,600,000 trips were made on commuter rail in the USA in FY15. I'm saying that the number would probably go up if the trains were better.https://twitter.com/roadtoserfdom3/status/895722280377999360 …
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Other investments--increasing service frequency--increase cost while increasing value. In a high demand corridor, value rises much faster.
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Achieving a standard of cleanliness would certainly cost a lot in the USA at this point, but maintaining one is cheap and VERY valuable
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Fixing up US rail has to start where it's most viable--in urban and suburban systems with already high ridership & mode share.
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It's a solution looking for a problem wrapped in romanticism. I get it, I like them too but, maglev doesn't change the calculation much.
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wait did you think MU referred to maglevs? lmao
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Yes, pardon my ignorance, is it evacuated cylinder travel?
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It means "multiple unit" All of the pictured trains are MUspic.twitter.com/JJ4x9MLjBA
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Intercity rail in Japan switched to using MUs beginning in 1958 with the Kodama. In the USA, though, we still use locomotives.pic.twitter.com/ZUN2hUwX7t
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MU trains, with far more driving axles, achieve much faster acceleration, can be built at much lighter weights, & inflict less wear on track
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All good but, all minor variables compared to the central issue of economic justification. Will people choose it over other methods/alterns?
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They can't choose it if it doesn't exist, and even today they're choosing the inferior versions where they DO exist (ie, in major cities)
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The reason passenger rail has failed is that people don't use it. You need to have very tightly packed populations & predictable patterns.
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"People don't use it"https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/895723645095493632 …
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That's been the case here and it is the source for the posit that cab fares would be cheaper. 320M people probably took more car trips FY15.
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