Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoNo, 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.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This is again a problem of America not investing in its transportation infrastructure, not a fault of trains.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 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.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 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.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I’m not at all saying that train infrastructure should not be built out. I’m saying it still requires cars in many parts of the US.
The person I originally replied to however, heavily implied we should be ignoring EVs and focusing on trains instead.