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Jestery posted:Was talking to a family member about how people parking in bike lanes (specifically 70 spots along a projected seperated bike lane) are just a blight People who go along bike lanes and slash the tires of any car parked there are also contributing to the economy
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Just Add Trains™ (Wembley Stadium. 90,000 capacity)
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hell yeah https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1479853492080496643
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NoU posted:https://thewaroncars.org/2021/01/27/test-driving-the-2021-cadillac-escalade-with-andrew-hawkins/ i liked how all the hate mail the author got accussed them of being unmasculine and of driving a prius: balling up all my neuroses and throwing them at a stranger via email over a car review that made me uncomfortable for reasons i could not articulate
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I grew up in a rural area and did not have to deal with cars at any substantial rate on non snow days. We could and would play in the street or the woods without particularly fearing for our lives. Snow days were about freedom from being bound to arbitrary and unnecessary authority all day. Not-the-less, gently caress cars.
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Getting in and out of that stadium is about as irritating as you’d expect
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 Link for ridiculous size https://www.chinadiscovery.com/assets/images/chengdu/guide/chengdu-metro-map-full.jpg The 2nd line had just opened up when I last knew 5 years ago. 'The Plan'  Big https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Chengdu_Metro_Planning.svg nomad2020 has issued a correction as of 21:38 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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skooma512 posted:Getting in and out of that stadium is about as irritating as you’d expect Wait. This is real and not a rendering? That really loving sucks!!!
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The Beijing subway looks good king. ironically that's also the chinese character for subway
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genius. now install wider paths, benches, water fountains, path lighting, bathrooms,
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Dear president Xi My country, america, yearns for trains
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an actual frog posted:Just Add Trains™ our new 60,000 capacity stadium has very limited parking and on major event days, no parking at all (drop off only). there is a handy train station, bus station, ferry and foot bridge over the river to get there though! 
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nomad2020 posted:
i would like one of these, and also a chengdu j20 to liberate my city from tyranny
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AnimeIsTrash posted:and also a chengdu j20 to liberate my city from tyranny its like trying to walk through muck while wearing cowboy boots
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Dolphin posted:no we're not banning private cars. if you like your car, you can keep your car. in your living room. My father in law secured a van shell like 20 feet up in a tree as a children's tree fort. It was pretty magical for the kids tho I would imagine horribly unsafe. One of the advantages of living in rural Florida is that no one cared. Anyhow all cars should live in trees plz an thx.
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My partner is very aware of my preference to bike everywhere and is bike curious (she has her own that I keep maintained for her) A few months ago I built a bike trailer that got significant use moving house and hauling cargo Said bike trailer, has got me out of several sticky situations and a few that a car genuinely couldn't.  The other day she asked me to go pick up some groceries and just casually tells me I might need the trailer because it's a big order, Got the warm fuzzies with my partner fully accepting my bike centric life
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tbf that’s like biden’s “best year ever for the economy” caused entirely by 2020 being so bad but now we have proof we can stop using cars so much so thats something
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ok but have you considered that going at 1/3rd the cruising speed of an airplane with zero direct emissions might make people late for business meetings?!
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Ardennes posted:Also, regional flights exist in China, they are just fewer in number than before because so many simply choose trains at this point. When the Rome - Milan rail link got improved service it rapidly took marketshare from the air route (I think all the companies involved were at least partially state owned but in a really hosed up manner), same for a bunch of connections in Japan. I presume the same happened when the Paris Bordeaux line got upgraded but haven't read anything about it. point is it's been repeatedly proven that people will take medium distance trains over other forms of transport as long as there is appropriate, vaguely well executed investment
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pointsofdata posted:When the Rome - Milan rail link got improved service it rapidly took marketshare from the air route (I think all the companies involved were at least partially state owned but in a really hosed up manner), same for a bunch of connections in Japan. I presume the same happened when the Paris Bordeaux line got upgraded but haven't read anything about it. point is it's been repeatedly proven that people will take medium distance trains over other forms of transport as long as there is appropriate, vaguely well executed investment weren't the trains part of why Alitalia went out of business?
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i'm not actually sure that the problem in the us is lack of appetite to invest in this sort of infrastructure, you read about projects with big price tags getting greenlit sometimes. but the ROI is so so bad that it doesn't snowball into people seeing meaningful change and demand more. it's really important (imo) that on the left we shouldn't treat building and operating public services like these as jobs programs that happen to produce useful infrastructure. the aim should be to run efficient projects which make ordinary people's lives materially better, cutting costs should be seen as an opportunity to build even more, better things. e.g. the answer to "this job can be done with 2 instead of 4 people if we adopt practices from France" should be "great, let's start a second project at same cost" not resistance. I realise that the reality of how projects are organised and funded makes that approach almost impossible though. What would be required to change this?  sure but perhaps there's an answer that could happen in NYC or CA.
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actionjackson posted:weren't the trains part of why Alitalia went out of business? perhaps, but both it and it's successor were/are owned by the italian government so it's hard to think about in the same terms as a purely private company. Idk much though, perhaps the state management was very hands off!
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actionjackson posted:weren't the trains part of why Alitalia went out of business? alitalia was long an entirely uncompetitive firm, propped up exclusively by government grants for 'prestige' reasons, ie as a vehicle for politicians to do horse trading with good employment positions for their cronies, and other assorted graft. in a less neoliberalized world it would also have been acknowledged as a necessary guarantor of certain airline routes, esp. internal ones to italy, which are not very profitable except at certain times of the year, or completely unprofitable, but nevertheless necessary to guarantee all italian residents the right to move freely around our territory. alitalia was a loss-making enterprise even before low-cost airlines were a thing, and it being repeatedly split off from its debts, restructured and then handed off to some well connected cronies of grafting politicians merely coincided with the development of a good high speed rail in italy, but i would dare say that the company crashing and burning was in the works for over 30 years, long before we had the first viable milan-rome 3h connection. a large reason the company failed was due to atrocious management (nepotism) and absolutely dismal business planning, though it is also much maligned for its strong unions, their favorable employment conditions used as a cudgel to turn other workers against common solidarity for basically as long as the company was failing. e: also high speed rail singlehandedly turned around the fortunes of our state owned rail company, completely laundering its reputation and turning it into a profit-earner. also in true neoliberal spirit ever since we got high speed rail developed and turning a profit the rest of the railway network has got gently caress all investment in it and we are slowly cutting off the rail connections for a lot of the country mortons stork has issued a correction as of 17:26 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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pointsofdata posted:When the Rome - Milan rail link got improved service it rapidly took marketshare from the air route (I think all the companies involved were at least partially state owned but in a really hosed up manner), same for a bunch of connections in Japan. I presume the same happened when the Paris Bordeaux line got upgraded but haven't read anything about it. point is it's been repeatedly proven that people will take medium distance trains over other forms of transport as long as there is appropriate, vaguely well executed investment Traveling by train is so much more comfortable. I’d even pay a slight premium probably. Sadly Amtrak is $$$ 
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mortons stork posted:alitalia was long an entirely uncompetitive firm, propped up exclusively by government grants for 'prestige' reasons, ie as a vehicle for politicians to do horse trading with good employment positions for their cronies, and other assorted graft. in a less neoliberalized world it would also have been acknowledged as a necessary guarantor of certain airline routes, esp. internal ones to italy, which are not very profitable except at certain times of the year, or completely unprofitable, but nevertheless necessary to guarantee all italian residents the right to move freely around our territory. I think that is both true and also, the idea you can take regular regional trains to even small country towns is pretty mind blowing to an American, who would have to probably take 6 different buses to get there is they didn’t have a car. But yeah Alitalia died more from graft and mismanagement than anything else but high speed rail didn’t do them any favors. The real issue in Italy there is a zero percent chance of having an competent government that would actually work to address the country’s issues, not a unique issue by any means, but yeah.
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