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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  public transport should be literally everywhere, why shouldn’t it?

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  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s really efficient in densely populated areas but inefficient in sparsely populated areas.

    While it should be everywhere eventually , the focus should definitely be on cities first.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      how is connecting smaller towns/villages to bigger placed by train inefficient?

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They may have been talking about economic inefficiency, if you don’t have a busy enough route to justify the initial investment.

        And in the US at least, there is a LOT of land, and huge amounts of it are sparsely populated. But that still adds up to a lot of people.

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The more stops you have for a train, the slower, more expensive, and less efficient it is. They like hauling for long distances without stopping.

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      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The last miles are a huge problem in villages. Train stops and you then walk 5 miles every time? The bus needs to ride every 30 minutes to bring along 5 people that’s super expensive.

        Also everyone there already has a car anyways since it’s basically required there.

        Cities however can use public transport far more efficiently.

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• mightyfoolish@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I also want to add that if public transit was more more common; it would EVENTUALLY spread to the rural areas just in a more limited fashion. Also, towns do build up as they age, it’s not like they are static.

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