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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would people have fewer destinations that they are trying to reach? Or is this just "you don't have to maintain them as roads, now you have to maintain them as railroads lol" sophistry

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

As he said, rail is cheaper to maintain than roads. So the roads you replace with rail result in a net reduction of maintenance costs