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Hughster

@afterconnery Canals connected every village to every other village? Really?

20 May 2023 at 9:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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DELETED

@hughster Here is an example from near where i live. This one ended up as a bust, but they were being built everywhere at the time. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitew

Also the Cardinal Greenway, rails to trail path, goes from Richmond to Muncie and there are various towns along the way. A hundred years ago people would take weekend trips from Richmond to these small towns by rail.

20 May 2023 at 9:52 | Open on fosstodon.org
Hughster

@afterconnery It doesn't look like that canal went to an awful lot of villages. And for those lucky enough to have been on the route who wanted to go to other places on the route, what would the journey times have been for passengers in the towpath era?

20 May 2023 at 10:00 | Open on mastodon.social
DELETED replied to Hughster

@hughster It was in the 1800's. You do realize there were billions less people around then right? There were not many other villages at that time. Try reading history more and stop being daft. Its ok to be wrong about something.

21 May 2023 at 9:56 | Open on fosstodon.org
Hughster replied to DELETED

@afterconnery You were the one who told me canals connected all the villages together before cars:
fosstodon.org/@afterconnery/11

We both know that villages weren't connected together in any way comparable to what's been possible since cars came along, and with current technology there's no way they could stay connected to anywhere near the same degree without them.

It's OK to admit that cars have positives in low density environments.

@afterconnery You were the one who told me canals connected all the villages together before cars:
fosstodon.org/@afterconnery/11

We both know that villages weren't connected together in any way comparable to what's been possible since cars came along, and with current technology there's no way they could stay connected to anywhere near the same degree without them.

21 May 2023 at 23:50 | Open on mastodon.social
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