Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it

• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, trains famously bad at “last mile” travel, except that in America it can be “last dozen miles” between a city big enough to have a station, and the place the person is going.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is again a problem of America not investing in its transportation infrastructure, not a fault of trains.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are many benefits to trains, but when you have 100 people in a 1000 square mile area, is anyone including government, going to be willing to run the rail, build the station, and send trains there multiple times a day? I highly doubt it.

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      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your doubt has no bearing on all of the stops in which that is a reality in every country that has proper transportation infrastructure.

        Your example is also immaterial to the benefits of trains public services.

        You’re arguing that we shouldn’t build any libraries because a couple people somewhere can’t read.

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