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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
Overall, I think that reducing the need for long commutes and freight routes is the way to go...
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True, especially for the commuting. My 186,000 mps telecommute beats your 47 minutes :-) The problem with the rail system comes at the other end. When I leave my house (which itself is not where there's what anyone would call a lot of traffic), it's often to go to someplace like a lake or trailhead that might not get visited by more than a few people a week. Hardly economic to build rail there.
As you get less & less need for people to physically commute to job locations, though there'll be an overall decrease in traffic volume, a larger share of what remains will be trips with one or both ends at less-dense locations.