Why is it so expensive and is there an alternative out there that won’t break so easily especially in the winter? My state is spending like a billion dollars a year on roads that they’ll probably have to fix in 5 years, it really seems like a huge waste of money.

Good Public transportation would fix a lot of these costs I know but what other road materials/solutions are out there?

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Metal roads. But since metal is expensive you probably want just two strips of it under the wheels. And since it will wear away at the rubber you probably would want the cars to have metal wheels as well. And at that point you could make the wheels form around the rails in order to make it easier to move fast without sliding. And then you could make the cars a lot bigger and link them together and have one big car push a whole bunch of them.

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But how will the BMW drivers pass?

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they would get on this hyper-epic-420-linked-car and then get out at predefined location of public interest equally spaced out between a route

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This reads in Adam Something’s voice

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I was shooting for more of an Alan Fisher vibe but sure, that too.

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What great ideas! Have you been trained in city development?

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