>>1961033>Anon, I REALIZE this. But the point of transportation is to connect the largest amount of the population as possible. If you bothered looking at a map, picrel, you'd see the interstate system did exactly this. Yeah, and? We inherited the Interstate highway system and a freight-centric rail network. Whinging about what could have been doesn't change the reality of what is.
>The difference is the interstate system has had half a century for secondary and tertiary branches to be added off the main routes, while the world's greatest passenger rail network languished.No the difference is that by the time the Interstate Highway system was established, there had ALREADY been half a century of investment into a nationwide road network. The Lincoln Highway was 1913 and became US 30 when US Highway numbering system was established in 1926. US 20 went from Boston to Yellowstone until 1940 when it was extended to reach the Pacific.
>Nice backtrack. Just a few posts ago you were losing your goddam mind over the idea of running public transit for trails within metro areasYou're hallucinating. I did no such thing and am in fact a proponent of public transit in metro areas and have been for a very long time, having made near-daily use of it myself for the better part of a decade. I'm just not utterly delusional about its costs, limitations, drawbacks and downsides the way you are.
