wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]

From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free

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  • 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.
































  • 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.