Always seemed a shame to me that megacities didn't lean into Mail Rail-style[1] logistics. Arterials of goods from depots outside, feeding into local hubs withi

Always seemed a shame to me that megacities didn't lean into Mail Rail-style[1] logistics. Arterials of goods from depots outside, feeding into local hubs within the city via light rail or narrow-gauge and then last-mile dispatch via small vehicle, bikes etc from there. So there are sort of "wellsprings" of supply throughout the city. In my factory-builder-rotted mind's eye some kind of semi-automated AS/RS kind of system shuttling small-ish containers like those that go into planes now onto and off trains. Of all the things to wish to automate away, driving 40 tonne vehicles with notoriously poor sightlines (though they have imposed safety minimums in London[2], but not after many, many deaths), often with steering wheels on the wrong side, down urban roads seems one of the better ones. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway [2] https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/direct-vision-standard-and-hgv-safety-permit https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/direct-vision-standard-and-...