Not surprising, trains are awesome. I certainly hope nobody was suggesting replacing trains with electric cars though.
Elon sweats in Vegas Tesla Loop
For real, it was that stupid. Reinvented the fucking trolly.
Please don’t insult trollies by comparing Elon’s dumb shit with them
Why not both?
It would be a big win if people drove their electric vehicle to the train station. They could even put small wind turbines up around the station, like flower turbines to generate power for EV chargers and some of the station’s needs
And solar panels over the parking lots
Honestly, I’d have guessed that for the same passenger-mile that the train would win by a lot more than 2x. Even a diesel train moves a LOT of stuff per gallon burned.
Who could’ve predicted public transportation was more efficient than individual vehicles ?
Station-to-station sure, but what about first and last miles? Nearly everyone who takes a train has to take additional transport to get to the station and final destination (especially in the States), and needs to be accounted for.
Okay. Now, compare trains to ICE cars.
We can’t let perfect be the enemy of ‘good’ or even ‘better than what we have now’. Yeah, I’d prefer trains. Trains aren’t practical where I am, because the population density is far too low. Even buses aren’t practical. OTOH, building out the light/consumer rail and bus systems in the nearest city would be fantastic.