Why in the 21st Century is it that we appear to be travelling around alot slower than the rate envisaged by our predecessors?
For example.
The pace of traffic movement in quite a few large cities is generally slower now than at almost any time in the past. Often our current pace falls behind that of the early part of the twentieth century.
Air travel has diminished in terms of offering shorter travel times with the demise of supersonic flight and currently has no alternative to replace this with.
Trains have made very little progression in the area of high speed travel and in their current form have a safety limiting factor. Maglev vaccum tube trains that could exceed the speed of sound remain just theories.
I know we now can all get around so much easier as transportation is available to a greater part of this planets' populace than at any time before. We have also made great improvements in safety within most transport systems but other than offering gimmicky facilities for the various types of transportation we seem to be going no quicker overall. Indeed it seems some people are obsessed with actually slowing down what we currently have. I refer to transportation by car in particular. Although there's more of us than ever before there's also currently more wealth too but it does not seem to be put back in improving the transport infrastructure, at least not in my country. Take a journey using the motorway (freeway) network and there's such a high probabilty of delay that working practices have had to be altered to accomodate this. What a sorry state and one a million miles away from the transportation nirvana once envisaged by the very people who laid down our still used and overburdened system.
Hula.
For example.
The pace of traffic movement in quite a few large cities is generally slower now than at almost any time in the past. Often our current pace falls behind that of the early part of the twentieth century.
Air travel has diminished in terms of offering shorter travel times with the demise of supersonic flight and currently has no alternative to replace this with.
Trains have made very little progression in the area of high speed travel and in their current form have a safety limiting factor. Maglev vaccum tube trains that could exceed the speed of sound remain just theories.
I know we now can all get around so much easier as transportation is available to a greater part of this planets' populace than at any time before. We have also made great improvements in safety within most transport systems but other than offering gimmicky facilities for the various types of transportation we seem to be going no quicker overall. Indeed it seems some people are obsessed with actually slowing down what we currently have. I refer to transportation by car in particular. Although there's more of us than ever before there's also currently more wealth too but it does not seem to be put back in improving the transport infrastructure, at least not in my country. Take a journey using the motorway (freeway) network and there's such a high probabilty of delay that working practices have had to be altered to accomodate this. What a sorry state and one a million miles away from the transportation nirvana once envisaged by the very people who laid down our still used and overburdened system.
Hula.
