It’s because roads get built first because they’re cheap and flexible. It costs nothing to build a dirt road but a bulldozer and a bit of time.
Transportation networks start with desire paths with take the form of cheap and easy roads, then they’re expanded and improved upon or abandoned as time goes on demand calls for it.
Eventually public transit gets added and then eventually trains get built.
Congratulations on being a semi-outdoor cat, how often do you go out to the country, vs how often do you walk around the block before returning to your echo chamber? Because bringing up a detached Who Framed Roger Rabbit argument about San Francisco’s trams has literally nothing to do with most of the rural country that simply does not and never has had the demand necessary to support public transit.
Lmao, no.
It’s because roads get built first because they’re cheap and flexible. It costs nothing to build a dirt road but a bulldozer and a bit of time.
Transportation networks start with desire paths with take the form of cheap and easy roads, then they’re expanded and improved upon or abandoned as time goes on demand calls for it.
Eventually public transit gets added and then eventually trains get built.
Congratulations on being a semi-outdoor cat, how often do you go out to the country, vs how often do you walk around the block before returning to your echo chamber? Because bringing up a detached Who Framed Roger Rabbit argument about San Francisco’s trams has literally nothing to do with most of the rural country that simply does not and never has had the demand necessary to support public transit.