Let's have a real cost talk of trucks vs rails and multi modal.rokwiz wrote:So you all plan on paying a lot more for your buildings, your housing, your renovations, your landscaping, your groceries, your cruises, your garbage collection, your road, water, sewerage, electricity maintenance and mail cause cyclist feel intimidated by trucks and want to ban or change the design, really. Do you realise the cost of changing massive transport infrastructure which ultimately will be passed onto the end user, ie you.
Personally, I think truck drivers should be banding together to ban deliveries in cities and see how long you survive.
what is it really the cost? How much for road maintenance? how much for road building? how much for the insurance and gas miles? how much is the cost for every crash and delay? how much for the bad air quality and sound polution?
There will always be trucks, but what is being done now is dangerous. Too many trucks, too little rails.
Even in the last news @Tholgette shared, the producers acknowledge that rail is better. They pay more using trucks you know? So you plan to pay more for sending the products and have damaged and dangerous roads rather by rail?