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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (54 children)

Depending on your definition, this actually is not peak performance.

Subways are.

Obviously, the tunnels are absurdly expensive, but nothing moves as many people as quickly around a city as a subway.

They're also extremely reliable, meaning people are even more likely to actually use them, and their above-ground footprint is essentially zero.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Skytrains my dude, similar footprint, same tech, and I assume it costs significantly less, and is able to dip underground when there absolutely ISNT the footprint for it above ground

[–] maxxxxpower 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

While monorails are cool, skytrains are literally just trains and thus insanely hard to beat for cost vs efficiency

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The ring came off my pudding can.

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