BUILD AND REBUILD
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this is the content i crave seriously though I think bringing commuter and regional rail back on existing lines through cheap and cheerful projects is a hundred times more important than fancy new HSR on the NEC
there's no good reason why there isn't a train to york or scranton or allentown or reading, preferably multiple ones
Sure there is, it can't possibly compete with subsidized cars/buses. Especially with the bloated personnel costs.
Hard to say it can't compete if it doesn't exist yet--clearly all the other lines "compete" enough to stay around, and Scranton is about as far as Montauk
Well, aren't there a lot more people along that corridor than along PHL-Allentown-Scranton? And isn't it generally easier to defend existing subsidies than push for new ones? (Assuming it would require some gov't support).
I was thinking about NYC to Scranton rather than PHL, but either way...yes, there are more people in Long Island, and yes, current system is screwed by relying on subsidies
Very important, even in rural places, to maximize farebox recovery and ridership...a city like NYC has no excuse besides graft for why its subway and commuter rail aren't making money (higher passenger densities than in Tokyo on most lines in Manhattan!)
Where are these maps from? They're cool!
I made them, pulling from: - a 1928 rail atlas of the USA (by Rand McNally) - historic USGS data between 1880s and 1950s (mostly accessed online via the UT Austin map collection)
Holy shit
lmao it was a project i worked on in college (for fun, not for any classes)
Lemme boot up OpenTTD real quick my dude
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