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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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This was supposed to be c/traingang, so post as many train pictures as possible.
All about urbanism and transportation, including freight transportation.
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Trainposts highly encouraged
Talk about supply chain issues here!
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"The design and prototyping was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [...] Each prototype came to about $10,000 including design, materials and engineering, says Odbert, but the idea is that the cost for each shade would drop to about $2,000 if mass produced."
Believe it or not those are kinds of average numbers for street furniture. Shit is pointlessly expensive due to contracting and a lack of central planning.
And the scale of what is needed to really do the job is hundreds of thousands to millions.