• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Check how much 200-300km of railroad costs vs a simple airstrip.

    The target isn’t a massive million person metropolis, but a mid-sized city with manufacturing.

    • Niquarl@lemmy.ml
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      15 days ago

      Well m, in my country we used to have loads of railroads everywhere connecting those smaller cities and villages but in thats the case anymore. Again I doubt we would want every small 10k cities to have their own airstrip and those cities are always connected with roads, so buses.

      Not sure why you mention manufacturing, do you mean that the production would be transported by planes?

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Factories usually have expensive people coming in to install and maintain the equipment, as well as visitors from customer companies.

        Source: lived in a factory town all my youth, family still does