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Originally Posted by GGG
Essentially people like trains because poor people take buses. That 50% of the reason is emotional not logical really is frustrating. I really struggle with government policy being based around people’s prejudices on the other hand whatever you invest in needs to be used so you have to take it into account.
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In some routes, the extra capacity justifies (and pays back) the cost of rail. But the romantic view of trains often (like in the US) leads to disastrous transit decisions where you spend billions of dollars for capacity that is unused.