this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2026
167 points (96.6% liked)
Technology
88699 readers
4017 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
We need electric trains. That's what we need. Fuck cars.
they already are, its FAST rail trains we need.
High Speed Rail is all (as far as I know) electric. Much of Europe has electrified lines, about 60%, which carry 80% of traffic.
I guess you are from Trumpialand, so I feel your train pain.
The main reason public transit is what it is in Europe is because of how WW2 ravaged the continent. Maybe WW3 will do the same.
And that means what?
I'm not familiar with that theory, but Europe has been building a robust public transit network since the early 20th century. The wars only slowed progress. Most Subway systems, rail networks, city buses, etc were quite strong already in the 30's.
ww3 involves nukes, i doubt very much infrastructure was left by the time it ends.
Never heard that theory but it makes sense. I just assumed they were denser and liked digging tunnels more.
We better get flying trains after this one
All trains are pretty much electric. Perhaps you mean we need trains with batteries or fed by grid electricity directly.
They meant move away from diesel-electric and I think you know it, this is highly pedantic even by railroad nerd standards.
Most people don't know this.
I agree with you, I recently explained it to a group of engineers and techs.