>>1676414>>1676406Here's also a report from the USDA on the impacts of traffic and congestion on Farmers
>https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Main_Highway_Report.pdf>Poor infrastructure condition and congestion pose increasingly significant challenges to the agriculture industry. Poor road conditions contribute to higher operations costs by lowering fuel economy and raising maintenance costs for vehicles (Figure 8). Road congestion imposes labor, fuel, and delay costs, ultimately driving up costs and reducing competitiveness. These cost increases could then raise the transportation share of the food dollar from 3-4% to a higher value.>Both private shippers and public agencies identified traffic congestion around common freight destinations, such as ports, intermodals, and grain elevators, as a major issue making the last mile of a truck trip less efficient and more costly>Destinations are often located in urban areas or busy multimodal transfer points where congestion delays are common.Hell, even going back to
>I doubt they'll see any benefit from 5 train lines' worth of their moneyEven five buses, nevermind 5 train lines, would have a tangible benefit on congestion, see pic related. Leaving a bicycle aside, just a single bus can take 20-30 cars off the road, reducing the congestion in that last mile for American truckers.
