Council of the United Axis of Socialist States

[Union]

General Ben Shin turns to his Union counterpart.

"Well Comrade Wilson, I do believe you are striving to be a productive member of the UASS. Perhaps we can talk about other business between the DCL and TUMF, later on."

"As for the proposed council building, I nominate Delacroix to contract out the construction."

[Delfos]

Ambassador Yuri: "Your presence here is already a guarantee of such claims, i bet we all hope your nation is up to our standards in the Socialist Axis. But let's continue with the discussion..."

And Delfos did: "We do agree with Delacroix being a chosen one. And since the transports are in the table right now, i propose we have top technology, supporting the idea of electric small vehicles proposed by Ben Shin, New Delfos only has our Birkov Motors Wagon (BMW) and other more urban-like gas automobiles, what we actually have to offer is the CGV railway system as mentioned before, being the main way to link cities, either cargo or passengers. We already use a very advance CGV railway net here in New Delfos and the other railways are becoming deserted, we are planning to build public parks in the old railway stations and turn the railways into country roads. This shows that if we do install a CGV railway net in Utopia we won't need much more to link the cities, traveling around 500kmh there is nothing that can beat the usability of this system." *makes a short smile looking at Kristen drinking her coffee* "I propose we vote now about ecologic ideal for Utopia by discarding common cars and introducing those mentioned clean vehicles and a powerful net between the centers or cities."

[Hendrix]

Comrade Wilson: "But Comrade, these Vehicles you speak of, are there adequate production facilities for the entire order? and if so, what would be the cost to the common man? Can we really expect them to afford to run these automobiles? In entire we trialled a version similar to the BMW you speak of, and found that the top speed was way below that which we consider acceptable for usages in areas of Emergency services and such? As for the CGV railway, the union is in Favour of this system.

[Delfos]

Delfos: "I mentioned our BMW as one of the only sources of automobiles we can offer, but it doesn't apply to the ecological ideal we're trying to set. For emergencies, i count with local medical or police or whatever service requires any speed in it's labor, having dozens of small units anywhere. It is a similar system we use in Delfingrado, Boyengrado and other metropolis, there's splattered services around, with only 1 huge centralized service for any purpose that the small units cannot work out in the middle of it. For example, if the guy needs a treatment that the 1st Aid Units cannot offer he has to be transported to the big hospital. Specially in Boyengrado we have underground road nets for special services as medical vehicles or dumpsters for example. Having this below the public areas, and being the public areas quite pleasant with alot of pedestrian paths and landscape planned parks everywhere. Maybe we could apply the same system in Utopia, but instead of underground nets we can have underground electric railways, commonly known as subways, working for the Utopia's services."

[Hendrix]

"comrade, you misunderstand my concern, my concern is with the top speed fofered by such vehicles, not access to emergency services."

[Union]

"Comrade Wilson, greater speed would only promote lawless driving and increase accidents. We believe that the moped or scooter would suffice for the common citizens. And if the common citizen has greater distances to travel, there is public transit."

[Khem]

"indeed i do like your ecological ideals Delfos, in carcossa we have a similar system working thoughout each of the cities sections. i quite approve of the idea, however there should still be access roads for emergency situations and all emergency personel should be allowed these BMW vehicles you spoke of. indeed, another idea brought to mind is to not only build up and out but to build down for factories, homes and buisnesses. Uichi Ryan city planners have been working this out for quite some time and it is a viable option to help prevent overcrowding and it encourages a wiser use of space. well what are your thoughts?"

[Union]

"Green space would be an important aura factor, citizens would enjoy such a living environment and it would keep them happy. We should have parks and natural decor in our cities as much as possible. Seeing how Uichi Ryu has such a exquisite natural showcase, I nominate a contractor from there to do the city landscaping."

[Delfos]

Delfos: "We haven't came unprepared. We asked a very good group of work including brilliant architectures, urban design, city planning and stuff like that. They started to make plans for Zabid, but we asked to extend them and think for other climates, and they came up with this awesome project. Still it needs improvement, but this is what they got.

Delfos typed something on a small keyboard and several images came up in the screen











Delfos: "And they also designed this council building, with super-max security, you can't hear a rock band inside this room..."


We have other projects but this is the only we would like to begin with.

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w00t! learnt how to make spoilers! In case you never heard of this above, it's Le Corbusier's city plan for Paris. I've got intention to mix Frank Lloyd Wright with this.

[Zimmerwald]

"As for public transit," contributed Viktor "we've been having great success in making a transfer from rail to maglev, and, if these trains were powered by solar power, they'd be incredibly ecologically stable.  The highest mountains in the middle of the country, poke out above the clouds, I believe, so if we managed to install solar cells there, we'd have a virtually uninterruped source of power."

[Delfos]

i don't want to look the black sheep by trying to install a net of CGV railways, but with so much ecology it suppresses the pollution a CGV creates. Plus as mentioned before, it's fastness is the big factor, it turns the factor of having a linking net of railways obsolete if we do not have enough powerful trains to enshort the distances. Unless we figure a way to make electric power source that makes a train go 500kmh, i stand with the CGV project.

[Zimmerwald]

"One can never be too ecological, Mr. President," countered Viktor.  "Besides, maglev trains can reach about 500 kilometers per hour, and if the electricity used to power the electromagnets is derived from a clean source, then there's virtually no pollution involved in the entire Utopian transportation system.  As I said, we're transitioning to this type of system in Gallipoli-China, and have had great success with it."

OOC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_train  When Viktor says "maglev" he means the EMS type.

[Hendrix]

"I concur with the possibility of using maglev, but what will the cost be? Is it realistically possible? Using Maglev in an urban environment isnt particularly practicable as there is not great distance between stops to utilize the great speed of these vehicles. However between cities is a grand idea.

Open spaces are widely encouraged however, as long as they are policed efficiently.

[Union]

"Representative Viktor, these mountain solar stations you speak of, surely the freezing temperature and harsh environment would the construction and operation of these solar stations very difficult. I propose this solution:


It's a building completely surfaced with solar panels. Some of my colleagues discover it during a trip into Saletsia. Its quite spectacular. We we can do the same with every building in our cities, we have a integrated power source.

[Hendrix]

Comrade Wilson looked impressed "I second your proposal, assuming the cost is acceptable?"