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The “what if you wanted to go to heaven, but god said ____” meme template, but here it says, “What if you wanted to walk to get groceries, but city planners said DRIVE”. The last panel is an image of a massive freeway full of cars.

    • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      1 year ago

      Last I checked, a day isn’t 5 hours long…

      Let’s give you a shot here and say they only operate 12 hours out of the day, that means the busiest train in the WORLD only does 35,000 an hour. But the graph is claiming 60-90k per hour.

      If I can point out that very OBVIOUS bias/flaw in the chart, what is the reason I should take it seriously at all?

      • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        the busiest train in the WORLD

        That’s not the busiest train in the world, though. That’s the busiest HIGH-SPEED RAIL in the world. You’re ignoring all the metro systems and suburban rail lines in the world that serve the massive daily commute market.

        Regardless, even the 35k per hour of that rail line is still an order of magnitude higher than cars on roads. Cars, no matter how you slice it, are wildly space-inefficient.

      • chameleon@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        You’re comparing maximum capacity to actual usage… weekday peak hours are like 80% of weekly passengers on most functional rail systems. Very common for the rest of the hours to run half schedules or smaller carriages because it’s simply not necessary, but the network can handle it if required.