Comment on How do trains save fuel when they literally park on the tracks and block multiple intersections, with over a hundred vehicles steady burning gas all around waiting for the train to fucking move?

• Jtee@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I guess you’ve never driven on highway 401 lol

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, just Interstate 10, seven miles in Reverse…

    I’m sure you’re curious why, so short story…

    That was right after Hurricane Katrina, we went West to go check on my mom, but hadn’t gotten the news yet that the Eastbound lane of Interstate 10 had collapsed.

    Welp, my dad was driving then, and we both looked over and saw the collapsed bridge, so we both basically said FUCK, and put it in reverse and drove slowly backwards to the onramp we entered from. There was no other way back…

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