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> Everyone on both side gets unblocked full vista. Aren't the sides supposed to be completely covered in solar panels? > Navigation is super easy. No getting

> Everyone on both side gets unblocked full vista. Aren't the sides supposed to be completely covered in solar panels? > Navigation is super easy. No getting lost in the city. But your maps need to be inherently three-dimensional because of the verticality. Usually getting around in a city only requires a two-dimensional map until you enter the building at your destination. > One single [...] transportation line In other words, a single vehicle breaking down can take down the entire transit system. > One straight uncomplicated pipe infrastructure You still need to branch out from the single pipe in the same way as in a conventional city. Also, "one straight pipe" is a really bad idea because of the same issue as above. Good engineering is all about avoid single points of failure. > Incase of emergency easy and super fast evacuation, everyone simultaneously 'spills out' of the walls on either side. Into what is mostly inhospitable desert.

mburee 4y ago
> In other words, a single vehicle breaking down can take down the entire transit system. Eh. It's the same way for most train tracks around the world, single track and double tracks without frequent crossing. You could still push/pull them along with the next train, in case they have a single point of failure. Other points still stand, but with that quite ambitious completion date well see sooner than later
- bpfrh 4y ago
  Yes, but in most other cities you can get to the point via different routes for example in my city I can reach some points with 3 different routes, with no single point of failure.
Timshel 4y ago
Fail too see why the fact it's a line would prevent redundancy. Do buildings have only one elevator ? No idea how it will end up, and outside of the problem of the location, at least it's an urban area envisioned around high density, public transport and walking. Not a suburban hellhole where you can't move without a car and where infrastructure push municipality into bankruptcy.

mburee 4y ago

> In other words, a single vehicle breaking down can take down the entire transit system. Eh. It's the same way for most train tracks around the world, single track and double tracks without frequent crossing. You could still push/pull them along with the next train, in case they have a single point of failure. Other points still stand, but with that quite ambitious completion date well see sooner than later

bpfrh 4y ago
Yes, but in most other cities you can get to the point via different routes for example in my city I can reach some points with 3 different routes, with no single point of failure.

Timshel 4y ago

Fail too see why the fact it's a line would prevent redundancy. Do buildings have only one elevator ? No idea how it will end up, and outside of the problem of the location, at least it's an urban area envisioned around high density, public transport and walking. Not a suburban hellhole where you can't move without a car and where infrastructure push municipality into bankruptcy.