STOP talking shit about different modes of transport:
Trains are EFFICIENT
Trams are HISTORIC
Buses are FLEXIBLE
Scooters are SLEEK
Cars
Bikes are HEALTHY
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- Proportion of rail route-km electrified by country: US: 0.8% UK: 34% France: 55% Germany: 60% Japan: 70% India: 80%
- Dedicated to the North American rail network.
- I love how the infrastructure in New York is so screwed up that when the power plant explodes nobody thinks it's terrorism.
- Imagine a New York that actually had a building boom, like Tokyo. Imagine 100,000 new apartments in the city, every year.
- By popular demand, an updated Eastern US high-speed rail proposal. Red = HSR, purple = marginal lines, blue = low-speed connections.
- New York is an awesome city and every new tall building like this is another thousand people who get to live there.One condo like this one saves over two square mile of wilderness from suburbs sprawl. 🌲 500 homes for well over 1000 residents in one building, vs suburbs with 500 people per square mile.
- To everyone sharing this: New York's subway operating budget is actually $5.2b, not $17b. transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.…I might’ve cried just a little bit
00:00Readers added contextThe New York City Subway's operating budget is $5.2 billion, not $17 billion as the video states. $17 billion is the operating budget of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a whole. transit.dot.gov/ntd/2019-top-5… - This woman smiles at you and says it's very unlikely she'll join NATO. How do you respond?
- In the interest of fair disclosure: Dallas-OKC-Tulsa returns 1.9% if you believe my model, it's just too risky for the map.
- We interviewed commuter rail riders in suburban New York and they want more parking, not off-peak service or bus integration.
- Circa 1900, Tokyo had 1.5 million people and Seoul had 200,000. Today, Tokyo has 38 million and Seoul 26 million.
- Naturalized citizens don't think the immigration red tape is impossible to navigate.
