Anonymous
10/30/2025, 3:27:45 AM
No.2057436
>>2057127
>Passenger trains have been obsolete since the perfection of the pneumatic tire and small diesel engine in the 1920s, over a century ago.
Harsh truth. Trains can't switch tracks to avoid a breakdown like a bus can switch lanes. They can't decide one day to just stop somewhere else. There's a use case for passenger rail and subways, but it's very hard to account for the gentrification and enshittification of various parts of the city, and the city itself. Bus routes can be added or dropped with demand without having to lay/rip up miles of track, build million dollar stations, mothball carriages, etc.
>Passenger trains have been obsolete since the perfection of the pneumatic tire and small diesel engine in the 1920s, over a century ago.
Harsh truth. Trains can't switch tracks to avoid a breakdown like a bus can switch lanes. They can't decide one day to just stop somewhere else. There's a use case for passenger rail and subways, but it's very hard to account for the gentrification and enshittification of various parts of the city, and the city itself. Bus routes can be added or dropped with demand without having to lay/rip up miles of track, build million dollar stations, mothball carriages, etc.