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Re:Watch a highway bridge be replaced in under three days, live by titzer on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:00PM (#31128054)
It's incredible the money and logistical thinking devoted to highway construction and maintenance compared to almost any other kind of infrastructure in America. Like, imagine they decided trains were as high a priority.
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Re:Watch a highway bridge be replaced in under three days, live by blamazon on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:46PM (#31128595)
They did, it's just privately owned, maintained, and operated by freight companies. [1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-North-American-Rail-...

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Re:Watch a highway bridge be replaced in under three days, live by titzer on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:00PM (#31128743)
The rail networks in the US are actually dwindling [1], from a peak of ~250,000 route miles in the 1920s to less than 100,000 today. The USDOT maintains over 4 million miles of highway.

[1] https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/railroad_route_miles...

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Re:Watch a highway bridge be replaced in under three days, live by bombcar on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:02PM (#31129809)
Most of that is because of trucks for last mile. Whereas trains used to go right into factories they don’t even slow down in the same towns now.
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