Rail Infrastructure Debate
Discussions focus on the feasibility, costs, and benefits of building or using rail infrastructure, including comparisons to roads, existing tracks, maintenance challenges, and US-specific hurdles versus other countries.
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As long you're building expensive infrastructure, might as well build actual rails.
It's an interesting idea but why don't they just use the already existing rail lines?
Trains run on rails, which doesn't exactly allow them to go off-highway. If you're already spending a fortune on building the rail infrastructure, why wouldn't you spend a few bucks extra to install the extension cord?
Why not use this for long distance? Wouldn't it result in cheaper "railway" construction?
The railroads didn't build themselves
I assume there are already tracks between the major cities, probably used today mostly for materials and not people, so can't you put a new track near the existing one, this land would already have low value since trains are already passing there.
"Massive infrastructure requirements" for trains. Compared to what though?
Rail isn't practical for some routes because the highways are maintained by the government but the tracks are maintained by the rail carriers.
Sounds like reinventing trains, but honestly why not with all the existing road infrastructure
We dont need the space in the parts where the railroads are tbh