Unpopular opinion: trains are not technically environmentally sustainable, but they are so much more efficient than cars & even buses that they might as well be.
Train lines are not as wide, dangerous, or consistently loud so I’d argue they are better than highways and less dividing so long as infrastructure is built and maintained to allow access to both sides at reasonable intervals.
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Unpopular opinion: trains are not technically environmentally sustainable, but they are so much more efficient than cars & even buses that they might as well be.
Those are electrical trains, so it depends on the power source.
Ground level train lines also segregate cities in the same way that ground level highways do.
Train lines are not as wide, dangerous, or consistently loud so I’d argue they are better than highways and less dividing so long as infrastructure is built and maintained to allow access to both sides at reasonable intervals.