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Re:Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready fo... by mburee on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:50AM (#32765483)
> In other words, a single vehicle breaking down can take down the entire transit system.

Eh. It's the same way for most train tracks around the world, single track and double tracks without frequent crossing. You could still push/pull them along with the next train, in case they have a single point of failure.

Other points still stand, but with that quite ambitious completion date well see sooner than later

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Re:Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready fo... by bpfrh on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:08AM (#32765707)
Yes, but in most other cities you can get to the point via different routes for example in my city I can reach some points with 3 different routes, with no single point of failure.
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