Good point.
Regarding Interstate exits, if that troubles your Kossack readers so much, please point them to European examples of high-speed lines along highways in practice. Best the HSL Zuid line in the Netherlands and Belgium, to be opened at the end of this year, because that crosses flat terrain like Florida:
(You can find lots of other pictures of the Antwerp-Rotterdam section here.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I was not aware of this ... while Oz is further advanced in rail than America, its still only just now getting out from under a "protect what we have" attitude into an attitude of modern systems being used to servce additional transport tasks. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
(low mountains) have sections alongsaide highways, new Italian lines too, especially Milan-Bologna (opens soon) and Turin-Milan (half opened):
...some sections of all TGV lines:
...and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.