Bread and CircusesIs this too much to ask? Evidently it is. 😕
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Hughster@breadandcircuses Not everyone lives in a city. All those millions of people in towns and villages will always need private transport of some kind, unless one would rather try to forcibly depopulate the countryside like some modern-day version of the Highland Clearances.
LisPi@hughster @breadandcircuses Did you know that most of the old-time USA was built on the back of trains & rails?
Those thing were abandoned or torn up during the 20th century to make the automobile industry happy. They literally bought rail operations to shut them down.
@lispi314 It wasn't some auto industry conspiracy: cars became omnipresent and trains less used because cars were much more convenient and flexible than trains, serving every location in the country point to point. It happened in pretty much every economically developed country in the world, even though the US went further than most in reshaping development around it.
Trying to deny this is pointless and doesn't help us solve the problems of car dependency and traffic in cities and large towns.
RevJeber
Grandpa Don@jeber Railroads introduced TOFC/COFC in the '60s. I was directly involved in engineering systems and methods. The trucking lobby fought it. Until we started buying everything from China, transported via containers, the COFC concept was doa in America not because it was inferior but because politics, both local and national, fought it. We literally welded containers to truck chassis because nobody would use them.
When is the last time you saw a trailer on flatcar? Long haul trucks are stupid.
When is the last time you saw a trailer on flatcar? Long haul trucks are stupid.