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That's the sort of property where upkeep loving kills you if you aren't either rich enough to not give a gently caress about your maintenance budget or are using it as a source of income. I mean, poo poo, just think of all the normal homeowner bullshit with your typical 2000sqft 2br/3ba and now multiply it by five and add on poo poo like boiler system for heating etc.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:couldn't they just expand the monorail but it goes into a tunnel at some point? Ok but if the train is above ground sometimes and below ground other times, what do you even call it? E: vvv ABnB baby BonerGhost fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Jun 17, 2022 |
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It looks like they bought their furnishings at a motel that went out of business. I'd be curious to see how that's zoned and legal as a residence.
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For the love of God, it is a Sportsman's Gem!
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Well that's a way to do it, alright.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Why not just expand the monorail in Las Vegas? Is a monorail more expensive than digging out for a subway? Or if going below is cheaper couldn't they just expand the monorail but it goes into a tunnel at some point? the monorail basically runs the full length of the strip already and getting it to allegiant stadium would require crossing 2 blocks of prime real estate and las vegas blvd aka an act of god no one gives a poo poo if it goes to fremont street and the cabbies will destroy them if it goes to the airport
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Why not just expand the monorail in Las Vegas? Is a monorail more expensive than digging out for a subway? Or if going below is cheaper couldn't they just expand the monorail but it goes into a tunnel at some point? Musk proposed the stupidest possible solution, and people bought into it thinking they could make money. The whole thing is an obvious scam, escape this time the true believer is the guy pitching it rather than the people who bought the monorail.
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Dick Trauma posted:For the love of God, it is a Sportsman's Gem! And has been used as a "memory maker". I can sort of guess at what they mean, but that's an impressively vague and interpretable term.
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Computer viking posted:And has been used as a "memory maker". I can sort of guess at what they mean, but that's an impressively vague and interpretable term. "Remember that time the gym roof collapsed? Ahh, takes me back."
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah, any "mass" transit that involves individual, personal cars isn't. Add a queue at every station, gotta let anyone who wants to get in your Tesla in until you leave the loop.
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Danhenge posted:I cannot bring myself to believe that Musk would do this without getting some tax boondoggle or subsidy that taxpayers pay for directly or indirectly. Do not underestimate the lengths a billionaire with a praise kink will go to to feed that kink.
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It is amazing how people will go to great lengths to reinvent the train, but now with added classism to keep out the poors from your libertarian mass transit paradise.
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As a grade schooler I once thought of a transportation service that was a car that went around picking up people who looked like they needed rides. You couldn't call and get it to pick you up or flag it down, it was entirely at the discretion of the driver. The car also looked like a slice of blueberry pie for some reason. I feel like this was a better idea than that tunnel of electric farts.
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I hate it when textures and level geometry don’t load.
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Bad form but I want this duct tape.
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Foxtrot_13 posted:It is amazing how people will go to great lengths to reinvent the train, but now with added classism to keep out the poors from your libertarian mass transit paradise. They keep reinventing the train because trains are usually not economically viable for moving people around so they need to make it different enough that maybe it'll work this time.
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Cat Hatter posted:They keep reinventing the train because trains are usually not economically viable for moving people around so they need to make it different enough that maybe it'll work this time. Haha what.
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Railfan42069 has entered the chat.
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Basic infrastructure needs not be economically viable, as that's what taxes are for.
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Cat Hatter posted:They keep reinventing the train because trains are usually not economically viable for moving people around so they need to make it different enough that maybe it'll work this time. Good infrastructure is one of the few things in the world that have positive externalities.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Basic infrastructure needs not be economically viable, as that's what taxes are for. We have convinced ourselves that everything must make number go up, so...
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I definitely bought my crappy falling down house in part because of its proximity to reliable mass transit that goes to almost all the places I work.
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MRC48B posted:We have convinced ourselves that everything must make number go up, so... Well now that just seems stupid!
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A CHALLENGER APPROACHES https://i.imgur.com/b16MvG1.gifv
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Mass transit doesn't have to be profitable, but if they can serve the same number of people for less money with a bus, then it's more likely they'll put in a bus line. I wish light rail was more prevalent too, but if a city has $X to spend on mass transit and once they buy land and lay track they can serve 10 million people or they can use that same money on buses and serve 50 million people, they're usually going to get the buses.
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Cat Hatter posted:Mass transit doesn't have to be profitable, but if they can serve the same number of people for less money with a bus, then it's more likely they'll put in a bus line. I wish light rail was more prevalent too, but if a city has $X to spend on mass transit and once they buy land and lay track they can serve 10 million people or they can use that same money on buses and serve 50 million people, they're usually going to get the buses. Buses are cheaper upfront because roads already exist. Busses are heavy and may in time increase the costs of road maintenance, but that won't come out of the transit budget and besides that's a tomorrow problem.
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Buses are not a good solution for anywhere with big industry. Not everyone will fit on the 42 to the shipyards. Obviously not a problem in the USA because they have no industry to speak of.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Buses are not a good solution for anywhere with big industry. Not everyone will fit on the 42 to the shipyards. Obviously not a problem in the USA because they have no industry to speak of. Uh, #2 in the world in industrial output is probably enough to speak of.
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I have nothing made in the US. Q.E.D. 
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Facebook Aunt posted:Buses are cheaper upfront because roads already exist. Busses are heavy and may in time increase the costs of road maintenance, but that won't come out of the transit budget and besides that's a tomorrow problem. Routes can also be added or changed easier. The other big advantage is not having to buy a bunch of land that people would probably rather keep for themselves. If they put in a bus route and everyone starts using it then they know the demand exists to justify a train. If 10 people ride that bus per day then at least they figured that out ahead of time. I'd like to be able to take a train more often too (or an airship or hovercraft for that matter), it just doesn't make sense to implement as much as we'd like.
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In America trains are in the past or for the future, they can never actually exist now. That's known as the US Rail Paradox.
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Like there used to be light rail near my neighborhood. But there isn't any now. A few years ago we were going to get a rail station in 2033. Now in 2022 we're getting a station in 2040.
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Vested interests make it impossible. Cab companies don't want competition for their airport grift. Suburban white people don't want poor and/or people of color coming to their neighborhoods, low density suburban sprawl is poorly suited to mass transport anyway. Car and oil companies don't want people to be able to go around without a car because of their bottom line.
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SkyeAuroline posted:An actual subway could do so at a far higher capacity, and they're already doing the whole "drilling tunnels". Just waiting for the first lithium battery fire between stations, and the massive death toll given no way to escape and insufficient ventilation to clear smoke.
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I know this is the least important thing going on here, but are they saying the difference between 6' and 4.5' is 2.5'? https://imgur.com/onBh48h.mp4 (Not sure how imgur video embeds work)
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Why not just expand the monorail in Las Vegas? Is a monorail more expensive than digging out for a subway? Or if going below is cheaper couldn't they just expand the monorail but it goes into a tunnel at some point? The monorail isn't cars and doesn't sell teslas. Cat Hatter posted:Routes can also be added or changed easier. The other big advantage is not having to buy a bunch of land that people would probably rather keep for themselves. If they put in a bus route and everyone starts using it then they know the demand exists to justify a train. If 10 people ride that bus per day then at least they figured that out ahead of time. I'd like to be able to take a train more often too (or an airship or hovercraft for that matter), it just doesn't make sense to implement as much as we'd like. Trains and subways also perform a different job than busses. They move a large number of people across a city fast. They don't compete with road traffic. Most other posters have pointed out what trains do, but I think your first post misses the idea that busses are best used as "last mile" transport from a larger capacity transit solution, like a train. Of course, because of sprawl transit implementation is turbofucked because why would you put a subway station on a stroad that has no sidewalks and is more parking lot than businesses? On a crappy construction topic, I think "the drop ceiling lives up to its name" deserved more fanfare than it got.
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Warmachine posted:The monorail isn't cars and doesn't sell teslas. I'm not missing that, busses suck rear end. I'm saying that trains are prohibitively expensive for most of the places people wish they were once you consider the number of people they'd serve and its better to give crummy service (a bus) to a bunch of people than a nice service (a train) to a handful of people.
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