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The author even mentions driving in "Which means, for a fee, you can drive two hours down a barely passable road. The caretakers will open the locked gates"
by MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
The author even mentions driving in "Which means, for a fee, you can drive two hours down a barely passable road. The caretakers will open the locked gates"
- jjulius 4y agoYeah, I missed that detail, but it still helps my point - that it's relative inaccessibility is why it's so cheap. The town itself might not cost much, but accessing it, or making it more easily accessible, is going to come with a price.
- danans 4y agoSeems like a ferry would make sense to access it. BC already has a ton of those.
- djmips 4y agoFerry service is expensive infrastructure. Who would pay?
- danans 4y agoYou're right that it's a chicken and egg problem. The place needs some resource to incentivize jumpstarting that infrastructure and it's not clear what that would be.
- djmips 4y agoJust for fun here's a Steamship in nearby Anyox in 1935 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamship_Catala_at_Anyox,_B.C._CVA374-26.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamship_Catala_at_...