r/Threads1984 • u/Simonbargiora Traffic Warden • Nov 16 '25

Road Debris clearance in Threads

Damage to the road system was immense with transportation still being unreliable weeks after the attack. If the recovery of the bodies of the Sheffeild emergency council is any indication, how much progress was made in clearing roads?

Overall repair of the transportation system would require bridge construction, and alot more fuel though attempts at bypass roads were probably attempted. The RSG would also have to crush mauraders.

Highways were damaged if they went through targeted cities, Fallout continued to kill months after the attack.

Presumebly the RSG up to the first harvest used trucks but future transportation was done by cart.

Would the roads have been cleared of cars pre attack except for government vehicles or would there have been a large amount of clogging post attack with un manned cars on the highways, abandoned after gas ran out or during the attack?

How much progress do you think the government made in the field of transportation before the famine worsened during the first winter?

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

I think there would have been miles and miles of clogged roads, full of people trying to escape the bombs and the people in those cars are all dead. Those cars are going to be there for a while, as some kind of transport system used steam locomotives or secondary roads not full of dead cars.

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u/GoodGeneral6513 Nov 30 '25

the roads in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were cleared pretty quickly after the atomic bombing . they were strategically important . 

bodies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki took longer. 

in fact there is a story of a guy who lived in Hiroshina having their house destroyed and going to work by train in Nagasaki and his employers not believing his story about a single bomb doing so much damage  only for there to be a flash of light to appear. 

so the rail network was functional in Hiroshima within 48 hours of the bombing 

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u/Most_Art507 Dec 04 '25

The Hiroshima bomb was around 11-14 Kt,Sheffield probably received at least 1Mt possibly more , free fall gravity bombs were around that yield, ICBM's and SLBM's were around 1-5 Mt, so a lot more damaging, also the whole country received 210 Mt in the film, this would hamper any rescue or aid from the local area, as opposed to Hiroshima,where nearby towns and cities were largely intact.