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But nobody builds a road to nowhere. You only build a road when there is demand, often from property owners, to be able to reach a place more easily. Thus I rep

But nobody builds a road to nowhere. You only build a road when there is demand, often from property owners, to be able to reach a place more easily. Thus I repeat the issue is not the roads, they are merely a consequence of the property ownership increasing travel to a remote area. Consider: would a road nobody traveled on be any issue for the tortoises? Clearly not.

defrost 3y ago
Roads are built through "nowhere" all the time .. to join one city to another several thousand miles away with no other "civilisation" between. To join a port to an inland mine site. Once you have a road where once there was no road and no easy access to the land within then people can follow. > But nobody builds a road to nowhere. See: Gunbarrel Highway - a road system from a launch point out into "nowhere" in order to retrieve test missiles.
- explaininjs 3y ago
  Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere. And see my point here about “linear” roads (connecting point to point) vs space-filling ones (providing access to an entire grid of houses). In short, an animal can exist very easily in the proximity of a single highway, but existing surrounded by development is a much harder task. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877692
  - defrost 3y ago
    > Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere. I'm at a loss as to why you even bought it up. My intial comment here: roads | train lines built to connect A and B will often be followed by small townsites along the way and the spread of "off the grid" living at blocks T junctioning dirt road access from the new A <--> B route. was about development following roads that connect places and that development expanding outwards into what was once "nowhere".

defrost 3y ago

Roads are built through "nowhere" all the time .. to join one city to another several thousand miles away with no other "civilisation" between. To join a port to an inland mine site. Once you have a road where once there was no road and no easy access to the land within then people can follow. > But nobody builds a road to nowhere. See: Gunbarrel Highway - a road system from a launch point out into "nowhere" in order to retrieve test missiles.

explaininjs 3y ago
Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere. And see my point here about “linear” roads (connecting point to point) vs space-filling ones (providing access to an entire grid of houses). In short, an animal can exist very easily in the proximity of a single highway, but existing surrounded by development is a much harder task. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877692
- defrost 3y ago
  > Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere. I'm at a loss as to why you even bought it up. My intial comment here: roads | train lines built to connect A and B will often be followed by small townsites along the way and the spread of "off the grid" living at blocks T junctioning dirt road access from the new A <--> B route. was about development following roads that connect places and that development expanding outwards into what was once "nowhere".