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Nothing helps traffic like more roads. It's not like mass transit could fix it.
Infrastructure doesn't necessarily mean roads. Although I haven't heard of anyone using this money to make public transportation better I have heard stories of cities using this money to improve pedestrian and bike infrastructure.
ONE MORE LANE
Still need infrastructure for mass transit.
Busses still need roads and rails need maintenance.
~~Trains still need some pretty massive interchanges, just look at any megabase in Factorio. There are literally books of blueprints to deal with any interchange you could possibly need for your trains.~~
Replied to the wrong comment.
Buses dont need multi-lane highways and massive interchanges, neither do trains...
I'm not for the highways, but trains need train stations and large rail yards and big storage and maintenance areas, and whole new set of machinery and infrastructure to maintain.
Operators for trains and tracks and other systems.
Its not just "lay some track and buy a train", and you are not saying that either.
Right decision imo to aim for that in the long run tho!
Yeah, I mean that's where the money should be spent, not on highway changes.
Trains still need some pretty massive interchanges, just look at any megabase in Factorio. There are literally books of blueprints to deal with any interchange you could possibly need for your trains.
Rail takes up some space, but only at terminating stations. The tracks themselves for 99% of the journey are much more space efficient than roads. We can't compare factorio to real life aha, we are transporting people instead of cargo and over much larger distances.
Besides, USA has a lot of space, that wasn't really the issue, it was the spending of money on the wrong infrastructure.
We’re very much also transporting cargo, but I don’t know anything about factorio or trains, so I don’t know if that’s a large distinction
You're right but that's not really the point of this post