I am forced to drive a car by the enviromental factors and also me voting the “force me to drive a car” party at every election

don’t @ me about vooooooooooooating

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    27 days ago

    Intercity rail starts making sense at shockingly small populations.

    As far as I can tell Amtrak currently has 528 stations in the US and Canada. The UK’S National Rail currently has 2589. That might be a bit ambitious to match, but 1000 stations could cover every municipality with over 50,000 people in the US and Canada. I wish we lived in this world.

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      27 days ago

      yeah for sure. there’s a lot of 1-horse towns that are less than 5% of that size tho, especially in the rural midwest. i think where my grandparents live is barely over 2k. when i was little it was under 1k and the town only had two cops and they had to share an old crown vic.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        27 days ago

        Yeah, it would be hard to cover every population center, but I feel like many of those places have a nearby town that’s accessible and quite a bit bigger. The next town over where people go if they need to do something their town doesn’t have. There are only about 5000 municipalities total with 10,000 or more people, but I feel like almost the entire population lives less than an hour from one of those.