Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!news.glorb.com!nntpserver.com!zeus.nntpserver.com!61.88.178.82.MISMATCH!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:31:55 +1000 From: B Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Tokyo water canals X-No-Archive: Yes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 8 Message-ID: <45bfc75a$0$29329$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.49.99.240 X-Trace: 1170196314 29329 210.49.99.240 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:165111 Tokyo seems to have a highly extensive network of canals. Almost everyone in Tokyo would live near a waterway of some sort. Why don't they use them for transport, in such a congested city? You could have small boats taking people (and goods) to their destination quickly and conveniently. There would be no traffic to compete with.