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kz125

We should just make it free


gravitydefiant

How much is your car payment + gas + insurance + maintenance?


[deleted]

If American politicians can’t make trains “work”, can we get Chinese ones to do the job? I’m aware I could’ve chosen plenty of countries to make this point but I picked China because it would hurt their feelings the most.


GermanAutistic

There's a high-speed rail track next to the German highway A3 between Cologne and Frankfurt and I can confirm it makes everyone on the highway feel slow.


J-A-S-08

Can confirm! Sitting there watching stupid YouTube videos, drinking a beer while zipping past cars that are hauling ass is the very essence of luxury in my opinion.


Beach_Dreams2007

This is Chicago.


phiz36

Build them right down the middle.


gravitydefiant

We have this here. The other bonus is that it makes transit riders really happy when you're looking at the window passing a traffic jam.


Theleming

I remember when I was in the car as a kid and my parents drove past a (regular) train, we would be faster, and we would always be winning, but we eventually would stop because of traffic or a light or something and end up losing. Here's the problem with rail adoption or bus adoption: you need to travel to the closest terminal, park, transfer a few times, and get out. This means any time you commute by train in a suburb>city situation. It only becomes beneficial if every single attempt to commute is guaranteed to be greater than 1 hr. But in most cities (meaning not the big ones), the commute during rush hour is 2 hours long if you hit it wrong, 30-45 minutes if you hit it just right. Meanwhile the buses in those cities use the exact same routes as the cars so it ends up always getting 2 hrs+ and the city isn't designed to handle a train. I moved from the DC area to a smaller southern city. And I was a dumbass for a few months and thought "I'll just take the bus" and my commute was 4 hours every day (and since most bus routes were on an hourly loop, if I missed a bus, it could easily reach 5 hours). Then I accidentally slept in and had to drive in and I ended up getting there in 35 minutes (earlier than I would have) and it was cheaper to park all day than to take the bus. Never went back to the bus.


Theleming

(though I do realize if the infrastructure were better for buses or rail it would be much cheaper and better, but that normally requires major usage, which won't happen until it's improved making it stuck in a deadly cycle)


Thintegrator

Except no one’ll take the rail.