Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
by pm90 on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:17PM
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I would imagine the advent of delivery drones would be a nice solution to getting supplies in and out of dense urban areas, after which there would be no need for allowing vehicles (other than emergency or public transportation).
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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
by nashashmi on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:00PM
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The biggest delivery truck traffic is for furniture, goods (one or two UPS trucks for an entire building), or garbage. No amount of drone tech can reduce/eliminate truck traffic for an entire building.
Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
by TillE on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:42PM
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The slightly more sane idea would be to look in the other direction, and build underground. That would be extremely expensive and have to deal with all sorts of issues, but at least it's physically possible.
The actually realistic solution is to focus on developing housing and infrastructure in the outer boroughs; Brooklyn and Queens are full of the absolute worst kind of inefficient quasi-suburban accumulated sprawl.
Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
by krschultz on Friday December 02, 2016 @08:38PM
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Or build the street up 1 level and have an underground level on the current street - isn't this basically how Chicago built sewers?
Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
by gruez on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:19PM
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close. at chicago, they also lifted the buildings 1 floor up. if you don't do that, building owners will be mad at the loss of their first floor.
Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
by notliketherest on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:48PM
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Yeah good luck getting a drone to deliver a 400pound pallet of soda.