Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere.
And see my point here about “linear” roads (connecting point to point) vs space-filling ones (providing access to an entire grid of houses). In short, an animal can exist very easily in the proximity of a single highway, but existing surrounded by development is a much harder task.
> Connecting two occupied points is the exact opposite of building a road to nowhere.
I'm at a loss as to why you even bought it up. My intial comment here:
roads | train lines built to connect A and B will often be followed by small townsites along the way and the spread of "off the grid" living at blocks T junctioning dirt road access from the new A <--> B route.
was about development following roads that connect places and that development expanding outwards into what was once "nowhere".
To join a port to an inland mine site.
Once you have a road where once there was no road and no easy access to the land within then people can follow.
> But nobody builds a road to nowhere.
See: Gunbarrel Highway - a road system from a launch point out into "nowhere" in order to retrieve test missiles.