Car-dependency in Ottowa
City layouts that cause cars to be favoured over alternative transportation
City layouts that cause cars to be favoured over alternative transportation
Subjective well-being improves with car shedding, if it's not done for financial reasons.
please fewer underground car tubes
donoteat01's hyperloop take still has me very skeptical on tunnels as a viable transport alternative.
Covers a lot! Approximate cost breakdowns, on people's desire for customisation, on transport costs of materials (you can't ship prefab concrete slabs across the country).
Includes a handy one-liner on why things aren't improving:
The combination of consumer tastes, low dollar value per volume building components, and the complexity of buildings inhibit efforts to scale.
A walk through how fast different types of train can go, and why. Great balance of history and physics, detailed but without too much assumed knowledge.
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