• This is troll science, right? You haven't factored the number of trucks required into your mpg figures:

    hang on....

    While they say that a train can carry 37 HGVs (good!)
    Trucks = 7 miles per gallon, trains = 0.7 miles per gallon.
    1 truck = 30 tonnes
    10 trucks = 300 tonnes

    37 trucks =
    1110 tonnes at 0.7 miles per gallon (train)
    vs
    1110 tonnes at (7x37) 259 miles per gallon (truck)

    Importantly, no cyclists are killed by left turning trains.

    FTFY

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