Good points, but bear in mind that innovation may soon provide a means of transoortation that is independent of roads and bridges, yet capable of mass usage if necessary.
I am not about to discard collective efforts as often stupid in the way of intent and results.
innovation may soon provide a means of transoortation that is independent of roads and bridges, yet capable of mass usage if necessary.
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Sure, of course, naturally, right on, etc - right around the corner. Meanwhile, back to earth and the 5.5 trillion dollar “infrastructure” bill brings 18 century technological innovation into the present. See the California multi-billion dollar high speed train to nowhere with no demand.
Of course, you could always take up James Clerk Maxwell’s 200 quaternions in which, at least one, postulates being able to step from any one point in the Universe to any other with free energy. Maybe you’d be less appalled then Oliver Heaviside and not discard 196 of them, or at least convert four more of them to vector equations, like he did; that gave us everything we know about the electromagnetic spectrum and A. Einstein and N. Tesla ... if you are fortunate enough to find a copy of his original work.