Long overdue and a great improvement!

😳 😳

('Soviet' meaning the engineering product, not the timing, obviously)

Almaty metro is a perfectly standard Soviet system, except for the rolling stock choices which are unconventional to those systems but not unheard of.
Hyundai maintain business interests across the entire post-Soviet market, including competing for Moscow metro train sets a little over a decade ago.

Kazan has several 81-552 sets, which are a by-product of the classic 81-71 series with a different front mask.

Egorov plant in St.Petersburg used to get pretty creative in re-inventing the same thing over and over again, with a great variety of 81-71 by-products running in St.Petersburg metro.

Long overdue but very welcome indeed.

Also, roads are seen as universally useful, not without a reason, and who wouldn't want to pay for something so obviously universally useful.

It doesn't take a lot of lobbyism where there's inherent systemic bias involved.

Media don't care: they always simply go with what's popular.

You'd expect virtually everyone be passionate about the roads and considerably fewer people having any opinion on railways, let alone willing for an informed one.

On Peggy Smedley's Podcast:

Talking about

· How the field of transportation has changed.

· Challenges cities are going to face and lessons learned.

· How cities are going to have to change and be reimagined for the future.

peggysmedleyshow.com/the-evolutio...

A LOT happened since then!

1. Most of Kievskaya regional rail trains redirected via D4 (via Minskaya, Kutuzovskaya, Belorusskiy, etc.).
2. The Great Circle Line redistributed people away from the inner city.
3. 'Moskva City' is now served by six rail lines (4a, 8a, 17-soon, MCC ring, D1, and D4).

The effects of AGI on nuclear weapons would prevent us from seeing and experiencing most of this, I'm afraid.

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My point, but also goes beyond transit.
Locals experience their cities differently, indeed, but there are ways for a prepared and willing explorer to immerse into their experiences, even if to a very limited extent.

Stay in the city for more than a couple of nights, walk around a lot and make sure get yourself to at least as many non-mainstream locations as mainstream ones.

You'll get a rich enough picture.

True, but also Wuhletal transfer is not exactly representative of the experience with transportation in Berlin either.

To be fair, the station in question is indeed one of the prettiest and the experience there is indeed pretty normal, systemwide.

The implications of all this as to the electric vehicles roll-out might be interesting.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

I thought it would be over 100% by now...

How is it possible that acquiring land specifically for TOD was not allowed?

the answer is 'yes'

yes, please do make videos and write long-read posts about extremely niche subjects nearly all people on social media have zero understanding of

because that is what's really interesting and makes reading people's social media worth the time (at least, for me).

YES, PLEASE!

I do not know who needs to hear this but it is incredibly annoying when MS Office suggests to me that 'off-street car park' is a grammatical mistake and needs to be substituted by 'streetcar'.

I mean, I appreciate the pursuit of sustainable mobility but I am trying to write about something else.

Consider travelling to Richmond, VIC, we have trams and $18 Guinness pints 🙃🙃

A stranger getting complete, unlimited access to your phone can ruin your life in under a minute.

A stranger wearing uniform who has unlimited access to your phone can under a minute put you in jail forever, with no way out till the day you die.

What makes me particularly concerned is that anytime this comes up in public debate, there will be a shocking number of people who genuinely think they have absolutely nothing to hide.

This is one of the most fundamental misconceptions about how the world works I’ve ever encountered.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but there is a worldwide trend on granting police / security / you name it forces unchecked powers for accessing your phone and everything in it just because they feel like it, including instances where this becomes legally mandated.

This is absolutely fucked up.

not yet, it looks!

Southern Cross has never looked so good

My school did have and use behaviour grading until probably something like 2002...2003 or thereabouts, although the only real focus was on misbehaviour.

Eventually, this will have to be done, and then conversation about extending the stations might need to happen.