Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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 11 months ago
This is again a problem of America not investing in its transportation infrastructure, not a fault of trains.
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.
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.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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.