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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
explicit:
That's actually really cool, I love geographic history. I learned stuff today :D
Kugai:
My own City, Wellington (and, to a lesser extent, the Hutt Valley where I live which is for the most part, flat) has it's Transportation issues, not the least of which is the fact that the Wellington City itself is, for the most part, hilly.
We have a very good Public Transport system compared to our big cousin up north, but there are issues due to the layout of the city itself, including narrow streets in some of the Hill Suburbs.
There is a lot of Reclaimed Land along the central city Waterfront, and a good portion of the flatter parts of the central City itself are built on Reclamed Land. The main Road/Rail link out to the Hutt Valley actually runs along land that was both thrust up during the last big Quake here and Reclaimed to expand and widen it.
Just to give you a fair idea of just how MUCH Reclaimed Land there is here, brought about by both natural and man-made means, this is a Computer Image made of Wellington before the great Horowhenua Quake in the 15th Century that, for the most part, uplifted a major portion of the land that Wellington City now sits on.
Boomslang:
Is it wrong of me to think that the most awesome part of your post was that you live in a place called the Hutt Valley?
Storel:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 30 Jan 2015, 18:49 ---My own City, Wellington (and, to a lesser extent, the Hutt Valley where I live which is for the most part, flat) has it's Transportation issues, not the least of which is the fact that the Wellington City itself is, for the most part, hilly.
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San Francisco has that problem, too. That's why we're one of the few places that has electric trolley buses on some lines -- they can get up hills better than diesel buses, especially when fully packed with passengers, and they don't require as much infrastructure as streetcars/light rail systems: no tracks to lay.
Kugai:
And the interesting thing here Storel is that we had Trams here right up to the Postwar Period, when we traded them in for Buses. Electric Trolley Buses have been a fixture here as well as Diesel Buses for as long as we have had Buses.
Now here's the kicker
Wellington City Council, which runs the Inner City Buses, has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to do away with the Electric Trolley Buses and replace its entire fleet with Diesel Buses.
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