A train network isn’t going to run 24/7 in a town of 300 people no matter how many subsidies it gets from the government. It doesn’t make any sense to spend the resources and incur the pollution cost of running a train with nobody on it.
And before someone brings it up, I absolutely refuse to accept the idea of forcing people to live in cities, or anywhere else for that matter.
Most people live in cities. If those people don’t drive, the problems are pretty much solved.
Small towns can be very walkable, since you can easily get from one edge of town to the other. And they can have a connection to the outside. But again rural populations driving isn’t too much of an issue, as long as they aren’t driving into the city every day.
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A train network isn’t going to run 24/7 in a town of 300 people no matter how many subsidies it gets from the government. It doesn’t make any sense to spend the resources and incur the pollution cost of running a train with nobody on it.
And before someone brings it up, I absolutely refuse to accept the idea of forcing people to live in cities, or anywhere else for that matter.
Most people live in cities. If those people don’t drive, the problems are pretty much solved.
Small towns can be very walkable, since you can easily get from one edge of town to the other. And they can have a connection to the outside. But again rural populations driving isn’t too much of an issue, as long as they aren’t driving into the city every day.