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| Nov 16, 2009 5:49 pm |
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re: re: re: re: whatever happened to the Snow Motor ... ? |
Thomas Holford
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James Booth sayeth:
> However, it is possible, with screws or tracks, that we would not have needed, could have done without building, saved expenses of, paved roads which primarily serve a need for speed.
> In other-than-urban environments, major arterials could be paved, for speed, while the rest of the land could be travelled, perhaps with less dust, and at less cost for vehicle repairs, by use of non-wheeled vehicles ?
A made a lengthy comment earlier on the Snow Motor, which was, alas, lost owing to server lockup on Ryze.
With respect to your current observation, regarding roadless extra urban travel, I think that is very plausible.
People with nineteeth century minds are drooling at the prospect of building a "high speed" train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. That's four hundred plus miles of concrete, gravel, and steel -- which is a LOT of infrastructure.
The U.S. Marine Corp has demonstrated the usefulness of large hovercraft that can travel over both land and water.
It would seem to me to be a no-brainer to dump the whole idea of inflexible and resource intensive railroads, and simply operate a fleet of advanced passenger hovercraft between San Francisco and LA.
Do I have to think of everything?
T. Holford
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