• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Heh, “here” is the US. We built roads next to nearly all of the train tracks and we don’t have high speed rail.

    A pretty normal arrangement:

    This is what freeways look like in a lot of cities:

    Either that, or elevated. When you get to the suburbs they tend to start putting up sound barriers:

    You can also just be on a road so remote that it takes forever for someone to even notice you.

    We have a lot of people die every year trying to walk off the highways from getting hit and, in the winter particularly, there’s messaging about not leaving your car because of the danger.

    As a result of all that, this is the most light-hearted way of describing how the comment landed: