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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

KamaAina

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4. *cough*capacity*cough*

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 11:08 PM

Sep 2013

Your basic intercity bus holds what, 44 people? You'd have to have ten of them leave at once to replace one train. And the air pollution metric assumes the trains are diesel, not electric.

P.S. I find it hard to believe that the Northeast Corridor segment between NYC and DC, the most heavily traveled in the country, does not pay for itself.

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Seriously, Get on the Bus! New Analysis Shows Fiscal, Environmental Benefits of Buses [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2013 OP

Gawd... Bay Boy Sep 2013 #1

The prime advantage of buses is the roads tend to already exist. You don't need to build PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #2

Like Scanton, Pennsylvania, and Sayre, Pennsylvania, and ... mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2013 #3

*cough*capacity*cough* KamaAina Sep 2013 #4

The article says that rail corridor is profitable happyslug Oct 2013 #6

Buses would be a lot handier... Blanks Sep 2013 #5