Georgia will literally do anything to avoid doing rail infrastructure
Yup visited Atlanta, and boy does that city need a subway and light rail system in the worst fucking way. Also every major Texas city! You have to deal with traffic if you want to do anything. It’s honestly stressful.
Dallas has a light rail system and it’s growing. They need to do more but it’s gotten much better over the last few decades
Bahahaha Georgia can’t even stop their local government from getting hacked and they wanna add MORE tech?
Bahhaahaha
This is incredibly impractical, and no way this is economically feasible for home delivery of goods. This might be somehow practical for moving large quantities of highly valuable items (think hospitals transferring drugsor blood/plasma) over predictable paths regularly in a large, urban area, but the need for that must be relatively infrequent to how much it would cost to maintain a system as described here.
If robots are also building the tunnels it could be economically feasible 🤷
I mean, it depends on how deep they go and the type of soil/dirt they need to go through. I don’t know where this town is (too lazy to research that right now… It’s New Year’s Day, give me a break LOL) but much of Georgia is loose, iron-rich (very red! Like digging a hole out of rust) dirt/sand (the awful-feeling large grain kind) like 20-30ft deep. It’s easy to dig but hard to make a stable tunnel through (it’d just collapse).
If they are just shoving a thin steel “tube” (rectangular like the picture in the article) into the ground and forcing the dirt out (e.g. blow it out with air) that could be very cheap. It’d be like operating a really wide Ditch Witch.
For everyone who didn’t bother reading the (very short) article, it’s in Peachtree Corners, it’s 1 tunnel about 1.5km long and 2m below ground.
The connection allows staff at the city’s “Curiosity Lab” complex to order lunch from some businesses in the connected shopping center.
Conceptually it could make sense to reduce urban traffic from frequent point to point deliveries, but no, this isn’t going to deliver Amazon packages into your living room.
It’s probably impractical to build these tunnels to everyone’s front door, but they might make sense if they worked like train networks and journeys terminated at local stations. That way the last few hundred meters could be above ground.
If this were ever to take off I wonder how it would be financed? The cost of infrastructure like this would rival the money spent on rail and road projects.
Most people already have saveral tunnles to there house. Electric, tv, phone, internet, water, community heat, natural gas, and sewer. Nobody gets all of that list, but select 3-5 is very common.
small tunnels are cheap enough. cost goes up by size.
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