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Aerospace engineer, economist, farmer and aspiring railway tycoon. Grow or die ⏩⤴️ hotrails.net YADG Joined October 2011-
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It seems just about every new tram project in the Anglosphere cops bucketloads criticism before it opens about costs, delays, disruption, and that “it doesn’t go anywhere”. And then when it opens, people love them. edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh…
“Trains are often run unprofitably as a public service” is an obvious truth mischaracterised by both the anti-train crowd as “trains are never profitable”, and the pro-train crowd as “trains should be run always and everywhere, no matter how unprofitable”.
I find it wild how people in modern anglosphere just seem to believe it’s absolutely impossible for cities to increase their population by ~100% in a decade and manage to build enough housing and infrastructure, something that was pretty common in the past.
I find it wild how people in modern anglosphere just seem to believe it’s absolutely impossible for cities to increase their population by ~100% in a decade and manage to build enough housing and infrastructure, something that was pretty common in the past.
LAS-LAX is among the busiest travel corridors in the world, with about 2.8 million air passengers and almost 20 million by car. Brightline expects to capture about half of this market - 11mppa, or 30,000 per day. That's 20 twelve-car sets, chockablock full, in each direction…
LAS-LAX is among the busiest travel corridors in the world, with about 2.8 million air passengers and almost 20 million by car. Brightline expects to capture about half of this market - 11mppa, or 30,000 per day. That's 20 twelve-car sets, chockablock full, in each direction…
Hell yeah
Not only has this bonkers bullshit quadrupled the price of the project, it will make the user experience infinitely worse. No view, no signal. It's as if you're in the channel tunnel for 90% of your journey for literally no reason at all.
At that rate it's a cash burn of ~$850m/year. Capitalised at a standard 7% discount rate, this ridiculous policy's present-value cost is over $12 billion - direct to Transurban's bottom line.
At that rate it's a cash burn of ~$850m/year. Capitalised at a standard 7% discount rate, this ridiculous policy's present-value cost is over $12 billion - direct to Transurban's bottom line.
Maybe it's my raging confirmation bias, but this feels related to the ongoing Mount Barker public transport / rail renaissance debate, which Cregan has been quite outspoken about. It's not like they need the extra vote.
Maybe it's my raging confirmation bias, but this feels related to the ongoing Mount Barker public transport / rail renaissance debate, which Cregan has been quite outspoken about. It's not like they need the extra vote.
While co-locating rail services on highway corridors does have its downsides, that's nothing against the propaganda value of fast trains flying past drivers gridlocked in their cars.
While co-locating rail services on highway corridors does have its downsides, that's nothing against the propaganda value of fast trains flying past drivers gridlocked in their cars.
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@GrayConnolly 1/ Gray, the sentimentality of the language being used is dulling your good sense. A 14-month-old wirehaired pointer is all but fully grown at that point, and is well over 50-60 pounds on average. It is not a "puppy".
@GrayConnolly 2/ How is putting down an animal that killed her neighbor's chickens an example of "barbarity", or a "debasement of moral sense"? Do you believe she made the dog suffer when putting it down? Do you think she relished the action, or chalked it up to grim necessity?
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@GrayConnolly Respectfully disagree, my farm relatives live in a remote area, once a dog has killed livestock of any kind, no one will take it. There’s also a completely different mindset in farm people vs city, it wouldn’t even occur to them to try to find a “city dweller” to rehome it.
Couches, apparently
@GrayConnolly How the hell do you think we turned wolves into dogs in the first place?
This infuriates me. There has been technology around for decades that prevents this sort of human error from occurring and yet we are still operating trains like it’s 1970
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Let’s keep cooking
Greetings, comrades. Thank you for your feedback. The team has noted all your submissions. Thank you for being Ugandans of substance. Together, we can drive the railway infrastructure development agenda to greater heights. Teri kunnyuka, let's keep cooking. Cheers!
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It’s time to repost one of my favorite tweets ever
The most insidious form of climate denial is no longer, "It's not happening," but the belief that incremental or tech solutions will solve this crisis. 1/6
Hot take, if you gonna include richmond in the northeast corridor you should electrify up to it, otherwise it just doesnt feel right
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Are these new renders of the Circular Quay upgrade? New wharves, a much-needed station upgrade with new escalators, lots of landscaping. EIS to be released in 2024. Mike Baird first announced the upgrade in 2015! transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/curre…
Where it all happened 109 years ago. Lest we forget.
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