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SCB@lemmy.world 9 months agoreplacing it anyway at a higher cost since it’s falling apart must be meticulously replaced with crappier materials
Can you provide a citation here?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Not nationally, only for a Denver metro track some council person told me about that they ended up spending more money and extra years refurbishing one line than it would have cost to replace multiple line.
Refurbishing lines in the US, where the tracks are so old we’re replacing them anyway works too, however we can expand and modernize our ancient, prohibitively expensive transportation infrastructure is not as important as doing it.
SCB@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have no problem whatsoever with rail expansion.
I just think “cars bad trains good tear it all up” to be a gross oversimplification that isn’t helpful discourse.
Like I’ve said elsewhere in this chain, I am extremely pro-mass-transit.