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Re:America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive by culopatin on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:11AM (#44528592)
Lol talking about rails in the US is pointless at this point.
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Re:America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive by Retric on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:24AM (#44528642)
US uses quite a bit of rail, just not for long distance travel. DC metro for example has stations over 30 miles out, with other options extending that to over 60.

A big part of this is having unsubsidized parking, if you or your company is paying 20+$/day on top of driving the incentives change.

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Re:America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive by drewcoo on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:38PM (#44536571)
Freight trains are still a thing. About 20 years ago Buffet bought BNSF.
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Re:America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive by Retric on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:39PM (#44537017)
Thus the long distance travel caveat.

US Fright is doing ok, but it got heavily dependent on coal which is going away fast.

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Re:America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive by WarOnPrivacy on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:08PM (#44538086)
In US, number of miles of rails only ever goes down.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183410/united-states-cla...

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Re:America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive by Retric on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:19PM (#44538140)
Removing redundancy is one way efficiency has gone up so much.

https://www.bts.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/Figure1_5_0.gif

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