Re: A different trans****tation threada (Re: Aside from THE ROLLING STONES)

In article <fvkm77$811$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <slrng1rlf8.98e.dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>David DeLaney <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>	In those setting that have city-sized or larger constructions,
>>>how are people getting around inside. A lot of the examples that come
>>>to mind have some sort of centralized, possibly public funded transit
>>>like a monorail (B5, for example) but there have to be places that
>>>are not conveniently served by that system. I could see bicycles being
>>>very popular in structures like an Island Three.
>>
>>Diaspar had the moving ways, of course.
>>
>>Dave "driving modern-day engineers slowly insane" DeLaney
>
>	Come to think of it, there are lots of ways to break a 
>mass trans****tation system, both public and private. Has 
>anyone tried to get a story out of what happens if e.g. someone
>decides that since the system has historically never failed,
>the maintainance budget is too high?

	Generalizing somewhat, Wil McCarthy's Queendom of Sol is 
an example of massive fail where infrastructure is concerned,
starting with the decision to built a mildly convenient communications
system whose failure mode could destroy the entire solar system.
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