In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Building Them

Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by pclmulqdq on Sunday June 02, 2024 @07:56AM (#40553383)

Is this a hypothetical future hardware store delivery service that enables a bus? No hardware store I have seen has a delivery service. I do a fair amount of gardening, and while most garden stores (not hardware stores, dedicated stores for landscaping and gardening) have the capability to deliver, it is always a very expensive service ($50-100 for a trip of less than 5 miles).

Most cars can fit a few 8' 2x4s as well as several bags of bulk dirt, and what hardware stores often have is a cutting service that lets you make those 2x4s shorter for transit. None of those would fit on a bus.

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by sokoloff on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:20PM (#40555289)

Home Depot and Lowes (the two largest chains in the US) both have delivery. Home Depot also has rental trucks, as does UHaul (trucks and vans) if you need to self-drive the product and decided to not own a car.

The local lumber/building supply companies also usually have delivery, though they can be harder to deal with than a consumer-oriented hardware store.

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by jusssi on Sunday June 02, 2024 @01:36PM (#40555862)

> it is always a very expensive service ($50-100 for a trip of less than 5 miles)

A.k.a the cost of not owning a car. Where I live, I could pay 100€ weekly for deliveries and it'll still be cheaper than owning and operating a decent (as in, not a 20th century rust bucket) car would be.

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