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0 pointsexplaininjs2y ago0 comments

But nobody builds a road to nowhere. You only build a road when there is demand, often from property owners, to be able to reach a place more easily. Thus I repeat the issue is not the roads, they are merely a consequence of the property ownership increasing travel to a remote area.

Consider: would a road nobody traveled on be any issue for the tortoises? Clearly not.

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defrost2y ago· 2 in thread

Roads are built through "nowhere" all the time .. to join one city to another several thousand miles away with no other "civilisation" between.

To join a port to an inland mine site.

Once you have a road where once there was no road and no easy access to the land within then people can follow.

> But nobody builds a road to nowhere.

See: Gunbarrel Highway - a road system from a launch point out into "nowhere" in order to retrieve test missiles.

explaininjsOP2y ago

Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere.

And see my point here about “linear” roads (connecting point to point) vs space-filling ones (providing access to an entire grid of houses). In short, an animal can exist very easily in the proximity of a single highway, but existing surrounded by development is a much harder task.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877692

defrost2y ago

> Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere.

I'm at a loss as to why you even bought it up. My intial comment here:

     roads | train lines built to connect A and B will often be followed by small townsites along the way and the spread of "off the grid" living at blocks T junctioning dirt road access from the new A <--> B route.

was about development following roads that connect places and that development expanding outwards into what was once "nowhere".

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