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100% without local city restructuring with mixed zoning and suburban redevelopment for proper land use, high speed rail developments will result on those stupid “middle of nowhere” train stations that are just railways from giant parking lot to giant parking lot. Completely undermining the whole point of rail that is being able to drop you off right in the middle of dense cities, which airports can't due to the logistics of flight.

Sometimes to get to work I drive one mile, park (expensively) and then take the train 8 miles, then walk a mile, carrying all the shit I need for work, including my dinner, laptop, change of clothes and 3 40z water bottles. Usually I just drive.

Right - public transit needs to be usable in the place you're traveling to if you're going to take a train. This is why a lot of people would rather drive from, say San Francisco to Los Angeles. Suppose you were to take a train instead. Then... great?! what would you do next? You wouldn't have anywhere to go, so you'll need a car anyway. You'd either have to rent one or just skip the train and do the drive instead.

Probably a lot easier and feasible in my opinion to build the local public transit first, and then focus on the regional/national transit system.

Agree if by "local public transport" you mean "put things next to each other, without 18 400-car parking lots separating them"

I see what you're saying, but the advantage of intercity rail, not necessarily high-speed, but rail that goes from one city to another at commuter speeds, that is definitely worth having where I live. I'm in Terre Haute, IN. There isn't a ton of work here. A lot of people here make the 80-90 minute drive to either Indianapolis or Bloomington to their jobs. There is already a bus line here if people need that and, yes, it could go to more places, but Indiana used to have a robust rail network that linked the entire state and doing something like that today would have a lot of advantages. Not just the job issue, but both Indianapolis and Bloomington are desirable destinations for things like restaurants and shows and people from all over the state drive to them (and a few other small cities) very regularly because of that.

The way I see it, a lot more CO2 emissions would be reduced with intercity rail in this state and the public bus transportation in various Indiana cities is already decent.

Palanquins were used only by noble families, if even. Less than 1% of the population and even less than that of the amount of people who would assist to the coliseum were carried there. Almost everyone just walked.

Iirc, chariots where only used to transport people and goods between towns and cities, being pretty rare inside cities if not completely forbidden.

Trick question. They didn't, the chauffeur did it for them.

And they've got Christkindlmarket.

San Francisco always gets left out of these as well, but transit there rocks

SF is easily as well-served by public transit as Chicago. It's the 2nd densest city in the US, behind NYC. Between Muni, the streetcars and busses and BART, there's always an easy way to get anywhere in The City. You can even jump on a cable car if that's your thing.

Definitetly it's the Altmarkt