Chapter 102: Private Tower
As they walked, nobody spoke, other than Marquis Burton, extolling the virtues of his city.
"The new elevated tramways are a marvel of engineering. They have cut the time to traverse the city by two thirds, and now even the commoners can live in any part of the city and still easily and quickly make it to their chosen employer.
It has done wonders for property values, and quelled all the dissent about renovating the slums into properly high density housing." The Marquis insisted.
"They certainly have done wonders. This might be the most completely renovated city in the entirety of Cygnia." Princess Alexis commended.
The Marquis beamed with pride, and gestured toward a large open area on the south side of the keep.
"We even introduced a landing area for airships. We get a twice-weekly service from here to Skippington and Hertbury. Mostly tourism, you understand. But the new airships do a wonderful job of carrying the mail as well." He explained.
That would be a useful resource for the defenders, if they could get a military airship or two here for the effort. Not many cities had a proper landing area so close to the centre of everything.
Even the airship yards in the Capital were on the edge of the city, built on platforms over the docks in the bay.
The logic at the time had been that while they were flying ships, they were still ships. So, they should naturally belong with the other ships. Princess Alexis wasn’t sold on that idea, but now that they were built, it didn’t make sense to move them.