On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Roads are cheaper and easier to maintain than railways, starting with >> the fact that the minimum standard for a road is a dirt track, the >> minimum standard for a railway is damn near the maximum >> standard for a >> railway. > > A dirt track is a dirt track, not a road.
Outside of Europe, it's a road. Not every road is paved, or even gravel. Anybody who drives outside of Europe will see some dirt roads or double track at some point in their lives. A lot of us have even lived at the end of one. Europe being small and heavily populated has paved most everything that takes wheeled vehicles. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
