>>1954291>By comparison, EU rail freight has a larger and growing share of consumer goods,Anon US railways account for about 40% of ton-miles share of land based container transportation. In EU its like 5%. 95% land container transportation in EU is a lorry.
>USA's absurd train length is the result of shortsighted focus on driving down operational costs over all other metrics. That is not short sighted. That is proper focus on railroad strength. Cheap. Truck transportation is much much faster, point to point and over magnitude easier to manage. Only advantage railroad has is undercutting them in shipping rates.
EU freight railways didn't developed since WWII they just haul their historic legacy of whatever they got from previous period and they are horrendously non efficient. Twice shipping rates and still covering 50% of teh costs via subsidies? Pleeeease.
