

It’s a good one. Carload freight is the secret to decarbonizing freight logistics and getting trucks off the road, along with an economic boost.
From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free
It’s a good one. Carload freight is the secret to decarbonizing freight logistics and getting trucks off the road, along with an economic boost.
Urbanrail.net is an excellent resource that I use for worldwide updates on transit expansion. Just about every city with rail transit in the world is there, it’s very rare that a city is not on there.
This is more fun if you add in drop tower mechanics
I’ll allow it, architecture is urbanist-related. Mostly I’m grumpy that I’m typically the only one posting trains.
The Cybertruck of bikes?
Elevators and your legs are your friend
I think it’s a shame when vernacular architecture is torn down, and the area looks very unique and walkable. At the same time, the buildings look old and worn down and sometimes preservation is very difficult.
This has been a revealing outlook into bourgeois media. My favorite is where they interviewed a guy who refused to walk for 15 minutes, take a bus or a train.
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Portland has never had a trolleybus system, but they do have an extensive streetcar and light rail network, both of which are called trolleys colloquially, so I can understand the confusion.
@Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net I thought you might find this interesting. Bonus: the downtown transit center has wired passing points for every bus bay. Here’s a lovely trolleybus saved from Edmonton at the transit center, albeit without using the passing point.
You would like Switzerland. The entire country’s transport network is integrated and designed around timed transfers. Even deep into the countryside, where buses run once an hour or less, they are all designed to connect to trains with neat timed transfers. This is why this trip that I cooked up between two random places in Switzerland has no more than 10 minutes wait spent per transfer.
This is part of the reason why China is able to keep costs so low, they keep the construction workers they have and send them to work on another subway line.
Terrible right of way. Way too many transit agencies place their transit lines not based on where demand is highest or where transit will be most effective, but just where land is cheapest or where the transit agency already owns.
Looking at you Denver
It’s nuts to see double decker buses with only one door in use in urban service in the UK. Maggie “Milk Snatcher” Thatcher is responsible for the atrocious state of buses in the UK. If you want to get mad look at Sheffield before her bus privatization. Even the US is better- the bus services are public here and there is no capitalist middleman.
Another pet peeve of mine is a service that is branded incorrectly. A “frequent service” that only runs every 20 minutes. A surface tram being called a Stadtbahn with a U sign indicating rapid transit. A regional rail network that has trains every hour or worse with no central frequent section being called an S-Bahn.
If your transit system shuts down before the bars close you have a city that loves drunk driving
Buses can be great. My guess is that you are dealing with buses that are either horrendously underfunded (low frequency, poor quality seats, stuck in traffic constantly), or are running transit services that should have been a subway many years ago. Buses can play a great role (especially trolleybuses) in cities that can’t build or shouldn’t build metro everywhere. High quality buses running every 5-10 minutes to every station can turn a single metro line into a comprehensive transit network.
GOOD post
Japan is the only country I’ve seen that has steel mills with no rail access. The mill is so large that it has an internal railway, but there is no connection to the national rail network. This can kind of be explained away because all the coal and ore comes by boat, shipped from overseas, but unless all of the steel is exported there should be some sort of rail spur for domestic steel consumption. Japan does really like its logistics by sea, which kinda makes sense because it’s a bunch of islands, bu they definitely take it too far.