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There is no trolley. We killed it in the 20th century in favour of automobile dependent suburban sprawl :(

[Background is the trolly tracks fork with person, but no trolley, no people and no switch.]

@bruces there are now millions of cars, they kill more than 40,000 people yearly in America. Good luck stopping them.

@bruces both rail lines have been paved over and now there's just people getting run over by people driving while looking at their phones

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An interesting point is that they removed trolley's from all the small towns that are now suburbs too.

@bruces I want to make a better graphic for this. A cobweb covered trolley on a siding and a line of cars headed towards the people tied to the highway.

@bruces But those quiet, warm, tranquil summer nights can’t be beat.

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I bet this is decorated for the first day of spring - and Seattle has come back to the idea of urban rail. Wish I still lived there.

https://g.co/kgs/szzcZy

@bruces Now, tens of thousands of people die every year in car crashes. We could reduce this number by investing in public transit and lessening our reliance on cars, but executives in the automobile and oil industries wouldn't grow their grotesque hordes of money quite as fast as they do now. Quite the conundrum.

@bruces which, might I remind everyone, kills more people than every other mode of transportation combined.

@bruces also, the replacements kill hundreds every day

@bruces @zhenech I'm actually kind of grateful, because I probably would be the fat guy that is sacriced to rescue the other chaps tied to the track.

@bruces The sequel:

@bruces no trolleys but cars

@bruces Yet in the age of reenforcement learning based self driving cars it's ironic that the trolley problem has possibly never been more relevant.

@bruces There you go. Trolley Problem solved. Permanently. No one died.

@bruces Well, my home city just built new ones and plans to expand the network.

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@bruces Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel.

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*Laughs in San Diego Public Transit*

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35 min video. Mega SUVs kill kids.(#notjustbikes)

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

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I heard that the auto companies (re ford?) bought up the trolleys (privatization) and shut them down. Is that true? Do I have to do research? :)
Still trudging through Choke Point; oh such a load of fun. I almost got through 3 pages last night, and turned to SciFi :) Aliens are much more entertaining than the monsters that "work the system" around us.

@bruces So everyone on both tracks has been run over by now!

@bruces how dare you question the existence of Rice-a-Roni

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In Sheffield UK, when they were digging up the road for the 'supertram' they were uncovering the original tram lines. The height of irony or stupidity whichever way you look at it...

@bruces Now that’s what I call a trolley problem.