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To: kevkrom
I consider that to be a very "futuristic" concept that is not likely to be feasible anytime in the near future. I'm also not sure people are going to be too happy about living in a city with a sprawling network of elevated guideways like that.

Interestingly . . . transportation systems like these have to be viewed in the context of all urban infrastructure. What you'll often find is that a city will often face other constraints long before it reaches the kind of size and density that makes some of these transportation systems feasible.

19 posted on 03/26/2010 9:38:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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To: Alberta's Child
What you'll often find is that a city will often face other constraints long before it reaches the kind of size and density that makes some of these transportation systems feasible.

Such as an entrenched criminal political ruling class that drives all productive activity out of the area. With that exodus, the only remaining economic resource is the pocket of the US federal taxpayer.

31 posted on 03/26/2010 12:47:30 PM PDT by Erasmus (The Last of the Bohicans)
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