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Dig up all the paved streets and replace with soil, with train tracks on top. Adapt vehicle wheels to train wheels and provide platforms on train wheels for the
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Dig up all the paved streets and replace with soil, with train tracks on top. Adapt vehicle wheels to train wheels and provide platforms on train wheels for the ones you don't adapt. Provide overhead lines to power vehicles adapted to use them.
You get 1. drainage, 2. reduction of heated urban micro-climates, 3. elimination of emissions, 4. "driving automation" in the sense that you don't really need to steer something on rails.
- heartbreak 9y agoAre we planning to use manual labor to dig up the streets? Otherwise that sounds like a significant emissions problem in itself.
- swimfar 9y agoDepending on where you live, they may already be doing that every 2-3 years anyways.
- heartbreak 9y agoI’m aware of resurfacing projects, but I’m not aware of total replacement projects.
- dsfyu404ed 9y ago>Dig up all the paved streets and replace with soil, with train tracks on top. Adapt vehicle wheels to train wheels and provide platforms on train wheels for the ones you don't adapt. Provide overhead lines to power vehicles adapted to use them. Seriously? Steel wheels on steel tracks are way more efficient than rubber on asphalt. There are many reasons this hasn't been done already.