Originally Posted by
tandempower
If there was suddenly a compelling reason to stop all but the most essential motorized traffic in the area, would a more autonomous economic community emerge on the far side of the hill with only minimum shipping traffic over the hill and no commuting, or would people just move to other places where there's room?
This is where things went off track in this thread.
It's very hard to imagine a sudden compelling reason to stop all but the most essential motorised traffic in an area that has had transportation of one sort or another since 1804 ... actually possibly much longer.
That said, once in the 5 years we've lived here (perhaps more during the time Rowan lived here prior to that), the roads over/around the hill were snowed/iced over and no traffic was allowed to go on them for a morning.
We managed to survive.