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[-] AshLassay@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Trains also suffer from traffic. Like you can’t enter a train that is full. Plus trains that don’t arrive on time and cause you to miss your appointment is similar to being stuck in traffic.

[-] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wasn’t aware that multiple times a day hundreds of thousands of people come to a complete stop on the trains and move at less than 10mph for miles, where is that?

[-] AshLassay@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US, where passenger trains have to wait for cargo trains. Since cargo trains have higher priority.

[-] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 16 points 1 year ago

I’ve been in one of those trains that had to wait, and it was definitely frustrating. However, you are incorrect, passenger rail has priority. What rail companies have done, however, is to make their cargo trains too long to fit onto the pull off rails provided to them, meaning, despite the fact that they are legally obligated to allow the passenger trains to pass, functionally, they’ve bypassed that law and the federal government has put no effort into correcting that behavior.

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