Cute little gadgetbahn I can't be too mad at since it's trying to minimize new infrastructure. It's basically just a PRT (ala Morgantown, WV). But the issue is the abandoned rails it wants to utilize are not going to be very useful routes for a PRT.
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lots of abandoned rail is between still-connected towns, but the same reason they're abandoned in the first place would still apply because they're owned by the big rail monopolies. if anyone could've used them all along rural communities would've been utilizing them.
It's interesting... Maybe it will be cheaper than a people mover, but it'll be even less useful and probably much slower.
Some of this technology may sound a bit "over-ambitious," but keep in mind the project was inspired by a fully functional self-balancing monorail that mechanical engineer Louis Brennan designed and demonstrated back in the early 1900s.
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Counterproposal: There's communally owned Railbikes and if you come across somebody else you just switch bikes real quick
ok fine I like it, it's neat, this is the only good "not-trains public transit concept art" thing I've seen that isn't full bazinga-brain. Turning a single rail-line into a two-way street is cool.
The technology looks really cool, if nothing else
because not everyone wants to wait for public transit or make a long drive, an increasing number of people are choosing to live in cities instead of the countryside.
Just to note here, I don't think that rings true. Germany is a very urbanized society by statistics, I mean it's just dense, the furthest point you can get from civilization is like a half hour walk or something, but it is also incredibly sprawled out for european standards because the government subsidizes the single family home in the suburbs quite heavily. "Countryside" in germany is being like 5km from the nearest city centers and there's only a few appartment blocks.
There is an incredible amount of unused, but useable, railways just laying about the countryside that this could work for, I have one near me and it would be a very, very good public transport option, but honestly, they should just reactivate the fucking train tracks there and run trains.
I hear those things are awfully loud.
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