On 28/06/06 09:55 +0100, Ashish Gulhati wrote: > > On 28-Jun-06, at 9:32 AM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > >What happens when resources are stretched far beyond their limits? > >When > >the critical resource is not the number of trains, but land area? When > >you have to consider that new land isn't exactly creatable (you can > >dig > >only so many tunnels, build only so many bridges), how do you > >propose to > >use those resources? > > Hey, I don't have time to come up with all the answers. But the > market is > invariably creative enough to do so. Besides, the answer to this one is > very simple: sky trains. They can be built atop existing highways. > Already in the works (at least a metro is).
> Besides, I bet they're not running nearly as many trains as they could, > on the track they already have. > Actually, there is one train every three minutes, on two parallel sets of tracks. Given that a train takes 3 minutes to go from one station to the next one, that is about as much as you can do safely. > Also, as you can see in the Indian aviation industry, the state hates > competition and does all it can to suppress or completely outlaw it. Wherever the bureaucracy takes control, they hate competition. <snip> > I already mentioned skytrains. Besides, there's plenty of land on the > planet. Unfortunately, huge chunks of it (especially in a country like > India) is owned by the state and is unusable by fiat. Which is still irrelevant to the Mumbaikar who doesn't see any of it appearing magically in Mumbai. > > >Alternative routes? Where are the flying cars? > > Will be here soon enough. If not for anti-capitalist forces that slow > down market > innovation and progress, flying cars would likely already be commonplace > (incidentally also saving large numbers of lives that are currently > lost to traffic > accidents because roads are pretty much 1D. Flight is 3D, so much > less chance > that your flying car will be in the same spot as another flying car > at the same time). > The last time someone had parking problems in mid air, we got a war on terror. And most vehicular problems are caused by human failure. How do you propose to ensure that people don't fly so low that they will crash into buildings? Or into people standing on top of them? Devdas Bhagat
