Are you arguing that trains are infeasible (due to cost or duration) for certain trips?
I'm curious how this changes (in your mind) if "trains" can be expanded to "trains, buses, bicycle", or if you consider that to be a separate discussion.
I'm curious how this changes (in your mind) if "trains" can be expanded to "trains, buses, bicycle", or if you consider that to be a separate discussion.
The Atlanta Metro has 6.5 million people across TWENTY THOUSAND square kilometers.
Trains just don't make sense for this. Everything is too spread out. And that's okay. Cites are allowed to have different models of transportation and living.
I like how much road infra we have. That I can visit forests, rivers, mountains, and dense city all within a relatively short amount of time with complete flexibility.
Autonomous driving is going to make this paradise. Cars will be superior to trains when they drive themselves.
Trains lack privacy and personal space.
How did we get here from the post about uv?
I'm so stoked for what uv is doing for the Python ecosystem. requirements.txt and the madness around it has been a hell for over a decade. It's been so pointlessly hard to replicate what the authors of Python projects want the state of your software to be in.
uv has been much needed. It's solving the single biggest pain point for Python.
Public transport is to move people around, not to make money.
I live in NYC which has 29,000/sqkm in Manhattan and 11,300/sqkm overall. Public transportation is great here and you don't need a car.
but at 240/sqkm, that's really not much public trans per person!
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Did you forget to support yourself? You're saying Rheinland has three times the population density of Atlanta, with convenient passenger rail, and that demonstrates that low population density isn't an obstacle to passenger rail in Atlanta?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traf...