ajsadauskas OP , 2 months ago

@ColeSloth Here's how that problem was solved in a country called checks notes America in the early 1900s: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2Fbon-U7GpfU-Qps1R7xOyG1EfRjRVSyX7FsVdhN_kpng.png%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Df05295494056e3b1e6821c853aeb4aed61909ce8

Here's a map of just the Illinois Central Railroad:https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSm-rwgQ1PSRo4GIplmxRZscx_nF-betb5SMRbEo7juj5nxUP0lpUp-NXs&s=10

And Missouri: https://www.loc.gov/item/98688505/

This is what America used to have, albeit with a much smaller population.

Lots of hubs, lots of lines crossing each other. Lots of small towns served in between.

See, what the people in America knew was that trains are faster than automobiles, and they still are.

So you've effectively turned one-hour straight train journeys (with one or two transfers at most) into two hours stuck in traffic.

Because unlike cars, the more people use trains, the more frequently services run, so it gets faster the more people use it. Whereas the more people drive, the more traffic there is, and the slower it gets.