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by thingie 18y ago
I have yet to see a transportation system that can pay for itself, stay profitable and still be useful. Measuring real benefits of transportation with current economics seems to be very hard. Almost everything has to be subsidized or accomp
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by thingie 18y ago
Actually, railways in USA already has much higher portion in freight transport than in EU (40% to 10%). It is not that big surprise, as big parts of the rail system are almost freight-only. High speed rail might work to connect nearby metro
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by thingie 18y ago
It is not a doomsday scenario. It will be simply a different world, and people will get used to it (well, at least, they will have no other option). Our problems of today aren't very happy either, and if you told someone in 1950 how the wor
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by thingie 18y ago
Constantinople wasn't part of the muslim world in the middle ages, it was the center of eastern orthodox christianity, it lost its fight with the western branch, and eventually was conquered by the muslims :) (well, depends on your definiti
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by thingie 18y ago
50.000 dollars (or any similar number) is an unimaginable amount of money outside US, EU and few other happy countries. No one can afford that, no matter how hard he would try, even a plane ticket is worth savings of whole family for just o
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by thingie 18y ago
For me, the city looks like if they were trying to build already complete adult human, then turn it on and hope it will live, without having to be born and then grow up to that form. Which is something I'm quite afraid of, because it usuall
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by thingie 18y ago
Well, while the picture itself is pretty boring and I don't find it very useful or interesting (sorry), I really like the way it is drawn, and I would love to see a real transit map drawn like this, any hints how to do this easily? :)
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by thingie 18y ago
Europe (every city) ;-)