Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
It’s 2020, and cities are so overcrowded that it’s impossible to deliver packages. UPS trucks have nowhere to double-park, and obnoxious bike messengers can’t even ride on pedestrian-jammed sidewalks. How, then, can important parcels reach their destinations in a squalid megalopolis of the future? Through the sewers, of course.
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
4 Comments:
Why not the Metro? Sewers seem highly unlikely.
And who knows, they may even teleportation by then.
In light of this avenue of transportation, UPS may want to revisit its tagline, "What can Brown do for you."
The picture in the article is of New York City. It should be noted that the sewers and New York City are very inhospitable. For instance, they are extremely hot. So much so, that liquid nitrogen is injected into the sewers so that's the workers can actually do their work.
New York City also does not have a separate storm water system from its sewer system, which means that the sewer system is overloaded during storms. As was noted by another commenter,the vast subway system would strike me as a better alternative to the sewer system.
The author of the suggestion does not recognize that only a small part of the country could use this. As pointed out a lot of older regions have combined storm sanitary systems so the transport would not be reliable. For other areas access to the sewer would be in an easment not the front of the lot. Let alone lets talk about rural and suburban areas.
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