TL:DW; Trains have better per-rider capex and opex costs. Despite train sets being more expensive than buses and station/railway infrastructure that might cost more than busways, trains and railway infrastructure last far longer, require fewer drivers or sometimes none per vehicle, structures, tunnels and bridges are relatively fixed costs that don’t need to be significantly more to support more riders.

TIL on this one. Thanks dude.

I’m over here having to choose between cars and walking in the busy road.

Why not both? Or train then subway? Or train then electric scooters for the last mine? I imagine in city specifically the coverage from trains alone is pretty poor.

I know it’s a Thameslink train in the thumbnail but I can’t make out the station. It’s definitely on the Bedford-Brighton line between Luton and London.