Currantia Transport History

Currantia's dense rainforests and semi-mountanous regions have made moving from one place to another a major challenge for those that live there. In ancient times, few goods were moved between towns and villages, with people moving almost entirely on foot along well used forest tracks. In the modern day, a highway system is in place, although most goods transport is completed via airship. To this day, a train line has not been successfully ran on the isles.

## Modern Day

### Highway System

In the 1930s, the then Premier of Domestic Affairs, Alana Distxavti, began an extensive upgrade to the road network within the Currant Isles. The upgrade primarily revolved around a series of highways along the coast of Hualu. The initial plan called for 9 highways, with 7 creating a coastal loop and the final 2 crossing across the island east to west. The 2 crossing highways were removed from the plans in early 1935 due to increasing budget requirements, although the C22 was added in the same time period.

#### Construction

Construction of the highway system was marred with difficulties and redesigns. In the end, the entire system took almost 5 years longer than expected to complete, and required almost 2.5 times the initial budget.

##### Stage 1

Work began on the first of the new highways, the C11 and the C34, in the spring of 1934. Due to the heavy summer rains in the southern regions of Hualu, the northern road system was prioritised initially. When first built, the C34 joined the C11 southwest of Currant City, with the C11 following along the entirety of the northwest coast. Only the coastal side of the East Ring Road (located near the southern end of the C34) was completed during this time, with the inland side not being completed until the 4th Stage of construction due to legal issues between the two counties border there.

##### Stage 2

In the winter of 1934, construction crews landed by boat at the southern tip of Hualu to begin work on the C76. During this period the initial plans were updated to include the C22, incorportating the northernmost section of the C34 to create a new highway connecting Currant City with the soon to begin construction C55.

##### Stage 3

With the completion of the C76 in the winter of 1937 (2 years behind schedule), tarmac could finally be laid for the C47. By this time work on the C55 had also already begun, and the C11 and C34 were finding themselves much more heavily used than expected. Plans for the C55, C63 and C57 were redone to plan for the increased traffic.

##### Stage 4

The C47 was completed in the autumn of 1938, finally allowing citizens to drive all the way from the northen tip of Hualu all the way to its southernmost point. Soon after this the C55 was also officially opened, although it had been open to residents of nearby towns for 6 months beforehand. With congestion becoming common along the C11, and visible degradation of the C11 and C34 road surfaces due to the unexpected increased wear, the initial work on the C63 was delayed inorder to complete large scale restorative work along the C11, the work also included the addition of a third lane in each direction in the Currant City region. The C34 East Ring Road was also completed during this stage.

##### Stage 5

Stage 5 consisted of the creation of the C63, and the extension of the northen section of the C34 to create the C22. The C22 was finished in 1939 alongside the completion of the restorative work on the C11. In the summer of 1941, the final work on the C63 and the West Ring Road was completed, and the official opening of the entire highway system was held, even though many of the highways had been in use for well over 5 years by that point.

#### Naming

The naming system for the Currantia highway network is a devolved version of the mainland DSRRed highway naming system. The first letter indicates the region of the DSRRed the highway primarily covers (all highways in the Currant Isles begin with 'C'). The two number identifier follows a system unlike the mainland, in which the first digit is defined by its north-south location in relation to other highways, and the second digit is defined by its west-east location.