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@yosh@toot.yosh.is there's an excellent example of this in the train world in Belgium. in the first half of the 20th century, when trains were still in vogue among the rich, a huge chunk of Brussels was torn down to create a train station right in the middle of the city and connect the two peripheral stations directly. this north-south connection still exists and something like half of *all trains* in the country pass over it (it's one of the busiest stretches of rail in the world!). it is also impossible to expand and thus always at maximum capacity. any mishap immediately causes cascading delays across the entire country.