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In response to
"although, and I'm just spitballing here... what if there was a track for the wheels to go into and they couldn't get out of"
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Reagen
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Part of the reason for using cars instead of going with larger rail car carriages is the size of the hole can be smaller, allowing
Posted by
TWuG
Jan 7 '23, 14:53
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quicker build out of a system.
The vision is also one of underground three-dimensional highways that connect with surface roads where we already use cars so interaction between the two would be seamless.
Part of the plan was also to introduce special purpose multi-passenger units that would move 20 or so people at a time to accommodate pedestrian traffic.
Another selling point is that people would keep their own timetables instead of needing to adapt to train schedules.
I do think there are places where the Las Vegas implementation would be useful, but I'm not sold on the larger vision, since adding lanes to current highways increases traffic instead of decreasing it. So what would adding these underground roads do? Especially at the transition points?
I do like the idea of being able to create roads underground that don't necessarily need to follow the city grid laid out above, but that can be a headache to implement since it would tunnel under buildings which could destabilize them.
Another potential use case for the tunneling equipment would be to lay new sewer, water, and other infrastructure tunnels more quickly.
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