In the silent mourning of the Viennese people, the carriage carrying Count Radetzky's coffin proceeded along Vienna's narrow main road.
Riding on horseback, Franz Joseph looked at the crowd on both sides of the street and the gap only wide enough for two carriages to pass, and could not help but think of Paris.
Compared to the wide main roads of the Paris Region, spacious enough for several cannons to pass side by side, Vienna's main roads, also one of the most influential cities in Europe, were indeed unsatisfactory in width.
If it were in normal times, such a width would still suffice for smooth passage.
If Vienna were to experience another crisis like the one more than a decade ago, such width would severely affect the army's combat capabilities, as artillery and other equipment could not be deployed in the city's districts.
The army would only be able to rely on the rifles in their hands to fight.
