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This is a fantastic idea, I would expect no less from YC. A couple of thoughts I have off the top of my head: 1. Design with hyper-loop in mind from day one.

This is a fantastic idea, I would expect no less from YC. A couple of thoughts I have off the top of my head: 1. Design with hyper-loop in mind from day one. 2. Easy access right of way for utilities, most cities bury everything which is silly, there should be an easily accessed common right of way so that fiber, water sewer etc. can be easily accessed for upgrades or repair without having to dig up the streets. 3. Consider driverless cars only, and electric only. Include bicycle or non-car personal vehicle pass ways that are safe. 4. Plan for green spaces with point source food production in mind. 5. Design in space for point source energy production, solar etc. Most of these are pretty obvious. The other thing that I have thought about is the parallels to networks, if you had a high speed low energy use hyper-loop that could function like a ring topology with small low rise communities around the ring. For quality of life a lot of people enjoy the small community feel (think palo alto) I live in Seattle in a small sub-community (Kirkland) that has that walk around the neighborhood to all services feel to it and I feel that it adds a lot to my quality of life.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> Easy access right of way for utilities, most cities bury everything which is silly, there should be an easily accessed common right of way so that fiber, water sewer etc. can be easily accessed for upgrades or repair without having to dig up the streets. For cable/fiber/telephone/power, overhead was common, though burying is replacing it. But what's the alternative to burying for water and sewer? I suppose in principle you could go overhead with that, too, but that seems...unappealing in a wide number of reasons.
- zw123456 10y ago
  Some municipalities have put in sidewalks that have removable slabs at each corner or more often.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    That's a way of making buying more convenient, it's still burying.

dragonwriter 10y ago

> Easy access right of way for utilities, most cities bury everything which is silly, there should be an easily accessed common right of way so that fiber, water sewer etc. can be easily accessed for upgrades or repair without having to dig up the streets. For cable/fiber/telephone/power, overhead was common, though burying is replacing it. But what's the alternative to burying for water and sewer? I suppose in principle you could go overhead with that, too, but that seems...unappealing in a wide number of reasons.

zw123456 10y ago
Some municipalities have put in sidewalks that have removable slabs at each corner or more often.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  That's a way of making buying more convenient, it's still burying.