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[-] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I take issue with this graphic. It is disingenuous to imply that foot traffic isn't the highest density form of transit. You can't load a train with other trains. People have to walk.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Odd take. You don't load trains from the front, you load them from the side. A suburban rail lets you turn ~5 3.5m wide "lanes" of pedestrian traffic into a single equivalent lane of rail.

[-] hemko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You forgot to account speed. Trains go something between 20-40+ times (or far more if you account carriage) faster than average person walking. This increases the throughput of the lane massively.

[-] matt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't things like trains and buses be more dense because you can design them to have multiple floors?

This is, of course, not true for all of them but it's definitely the case in many places.

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