Slow Boats Are Reclaiming Short-Haul Travel
Ferries and coastal routes can make travel part of the destination. They also reveal how much infrastructure a slower journey requires.
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Slower, more useful ways to move through places without flattening them into backdrops.
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Movement on the road works better as a set of small decisions than a rigid programme that collapses after the first delayed train.
Read the reportFerries and coastal routes can make travel part of the destination. They also reveal how much infrastructure a slower journey requires.
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