Notes:

  • Picnic test
  • Why we don’t have urban freight anymore
  • Industry moving out of the cities
  • Externalities that trucks have to (not) pay vs what freight rail has to pay
  • He's not anti truck
  • Railroads and trucks can go side by side
  • I unload my pet peeves about urban trucks
  • Industrial policy
  • EVs and their problems
  • Using urban rail lines for both freight and passenger
  • The recent (almost) labor strike on the freight rails
  • Some men and women just like driving heavy machinary
  • Humans vs machine driving trains