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Ryan Breaker Jul 19, 2023

I never really looked at the numbers side by side and it’s even more staggering than I thought they’d be.

2022 budgets:
Amtrak: $2.3B
Federal highway: $64.3B

I can’t even imagine the difference it’d make if these were just partially evened out. Wonder how people who say Amtrak is a “waste” would respond after learning the actual numbers.

#transit #Amtrak #trains #TheWarOnCars #strongtowns

https://youtu.be/von_IMi97-w

What I learned from taking a train across the US

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eeenmachine Jul 19, 2023

@Breaker I can’t believe it is still 37% the emissions of flying. Perhaps due to low ridership?

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Ryan Breaker

@eeen Something that'd help a lot with lowering that further is mass electrification (something we used to have much, much more of) but without nationalization of rail or incentives for the rail owners to do it, it's unlikely to ever happen.