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IF you have lots of railways and subways then almost everywhere is gone be next to those things. And it also leads to a situation where your combined transport
by panick21_ 3y ago
IF you have lots of railways and subways then almost everywhere is gone be next to those things. And it also leads to a situation where your combined transport and housing cost are actually small. That is the right way to improve society. In Switzerland there are tons of really cheap places with fantastic rail connections.
The idea that rail infrastructure isn't sustainable is kind of nonsense, even with smaller population. Road infrastructure maintenance is far more expensive and in a bad economic situation you can run 30 year old trains. Its simply a matter of what your society puts priority on.
Main part of Britain specifically is so densely populated that even with massive collapse in population most of the rail network would still be vital.
- faeriechangling 3y agoI agree, so it will be the infrastructure connected by no better means than roads which will turn to ruins first. Yet we are still building up such infrastructure, even if emphasis is gradually shifting to more sustainable infrastructure. I still am sceptical that much of what is being built now can survive a century. It seems most plausible that transport costs are going to climb up every year over the next few decades and I don't see how that doesn't break the back of many many communities.