• @[email protected]
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      1116 hours ago

      First friggin’ paragraph…

      Six decades after the bullet train first whisked passengers between Tokyo and Osaka, authorities in Japan are planning to do the same for cargo, with the construction of a “conveyor belt road”.

      • @[email protected]
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        -215 hours ago

        The bullet train is wholly irrelevant here. It does not transport cargo now, does it? Build a fucking freight train line. Every time some tech bro suggests a solution involving pods, a civil engineer has a stroke

        • @[email protected]
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          214 hours ago

          Ah - you are correct - they don’t use those lines for freight (I thought they may). Still - Japan has some of the best train networks in the world.

          I expect this idea to die. People act like because a thing was suggested or being looked into that it will automatically be done. “Solar Frickin’ Roadways” never went anywhere an this sounds unlikely to as well.

        • @474D
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          114 hours ago

          I like how you think you know better than Japan after skimming a simple article lol