Where is that Target truck going?

I am a bit baffled.  Sitting at the stoplight in town, I’ve watched a Target (brand) Semi roll through town at least a half a dozen times.  And I just can’t figure it out.  The closest locations out this way are in Summit County, Montrose and C. Springs!   It just doesn’t make sense to me why they’d be travelling down Highway 24.  Thinking down those lines a bit, lead me to do a little searching and I came across this article about a world lived without semi’s hauling our goods all over this country.  A variety of techniques have been tried and abandoned…

“Paris and Berlin had more than 400 kilometres of extensive citywide networks that were in use until the end of the 20th century – in Prague, the pneumatic system was even operating until 2002 when it was damaged by a flood. In the United States, the technique was already abandoned in the 50s, in favour of trucks and new communication technology. ”

The article continues to discuss light rail, pneumatics in use today and battery-less low speed electric rail delivery.  Set against our current energy situation and as oil prices climb back above $4.00 a gallon in parts of the west, radical changes to our supply chain network begin to appear less and less like fantasy and more like necessity.