What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
>>2018259they have a soup kitchen next to union station in dc so all the insane homeless people stay there and harass or assault people on the way in from columbus circle beautiful on the inside though.
>>2018347anon's talking about the underground portion with all the street venders and bums pissing in the stairways, not moynihan
>>1992029>The Sounder regional trains are great up to Vancouver and down to Eugene.Where is this ghost Sounder line that stretches from BC to Oregon?
>>2028861they were just following the Elon Levy model. trains are more efficient if you delete the passengers
Must see Japanese doc showing a day managing Tokyo Metro trains, lot of detail with 100 cameras! Overworked fainting salary men always causing delays!: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/5001446/
How do you mix training for cycling with a proper strength routine?I'm trying to raise my FTP, need to lose like 10kg by next year for climbs BUT the Physiotherapist told me I need to do more strength/weight training for my body... Specially my back and shoulders.I'm currently doing:>Intervals 3x/wk>Strength routine (Kettlebell + pullups) 2x/wk>Long ride on weekendsI've literally never done any strength stuff in my life before and generally hate it compared to cardio.
>>2026424>gifamateur
why do zoomers have so much hate for "trying hard"? why is try hard an insult? phones have raised a generation of nihilists, zoomerism is a death cult
>>2031640It's their way of being a contrarian rebel, think of it like Gen X's "lazy cool." While Gen Z was growing up, Millennial pop culture was very try hard which was our contrarian move against lazy cool. It's that thing where culture ping pongs. You think us Millennials go hard? Mini-Millennials, Gen AI, Gen Alpha, goes even harderhttps://youtu.be/njE3EknkkBY
>>2031640in the childhood films I saw the not try hard got the girl.>t. try hard that stopped and is back
>>2031640copy/pasting the best shit i ever read about this:Given how useless I’ve been today, I’m not going to do it justice. However, since tomorrow’s likely to be more of the same, and since I suspect the response will be “you don’t know what tryhard means” (probably true), I might as well get it over with. Let’s do this shit in point form:– there’s nothing worse than being stuck playing team sports with people who aren’t working their asses off– in the face of a cold and uncaring universe, tenacity is the most valuable form of strength, and learned helplessness is the most pernicious weakness– if someone’s born with abilities they didn’t have to work for, we praise them as naturally gifted; if someone’s born with money they didn’t have to work for, we ridicule them as a trust fund baby– untapped potential is fool’s gold– “I could do ____ if I tried” is a statement of cowardice, not confidence– lack of effort or commitment does not excuse or lessen the severity of a failure; rather, it means you have failed twice– if you’re an asshole, and you set world records and win gold medals, congratulations: you’re still an assholeI’m not making excuses for vanity, arrogance, attention whoring, poor priorities, or any other pathological behaviour. Quite the opposite; I’m proposing that we target the pathological behaviour directly, rather than taking the lazy way out.Now here’s the flipside:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Why are modern train stations not built with beauty in mind?
>>2031762no
>>2031757>I have no idea why he wanted that.iirc it was something like it being "the temple of the working class" or something like that.
>>2031709>most "MTA" stations were built well before the MTAand guess which ones of them were built by for-profit organisations
>>2031757Metro is the most universally seen part of the city. You can make a couple cool buildings scattered around the city, of which most will see one-two in their life, or you can make a system that is used by a lot of people constantly remind people of communism's greatness. It's like how an office building's entrance is usually pretty, but go to the working areas and they are bland and uninteresting and cheap.
>>2031757Socialist classicism: turning classes upside down, pretty things for the normal people yadda yadda and of course for prestige. I wish they would have had more resources and time and more commieblocks were build in that style.
>Parallel’s battery-electric cars — which can run alone or together as an autonomous platoon of up to 50 cars — can each carry a single containerhttps://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/fra-approves-first-test-program-of-autonomous-rail-cars/Phase 1>2 mile section of track with no crossingsPhase 2>30 miles of track>no other rail operations>crossings flaggedPhases 3+4>84 miles of track>incorporating track warrant authorityComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Are these really going to be cheaper and/or quicker than a truck? That's the market the article says these are aiming for (obviously a few hundred of these are going to be much more expensive than a few locomotives).
>>2031799>Are these really going to be cheaper and/or quicker than a truck?Nope
>>2031797>replace train with trugg>turn trugg into train>oligarchy intensifies God damnit America, get your shit together
Post Your Bike Thread>Winter Commuter>"I'm not a cyclist">Limited EditionPrevious Edition>>2018643
>>2031692gross
>>2031622They lube the cables on Park Tool videos as well.
Piece of shit bike that will bend to my will or get sold.
>>2031738I’m getting sick of the crate desu. Might switch to a basket
>>2031692Drain gang
shoutout to all short peoplei'm so happynever felt so freegoing around with mybicycle
>>2031665>more seat tube will show*more seat POST, sorry
>>2031677>Where i live you just got it shown how its done from the beginning and thats it.wow take me to this fantasy land where every noob cyclist has their saddle height set correctlysounds amazingnot the fucking real world though mate
>>2031677Almost every new cyclist I've ever had the opportunity to give guidance too has had that thing where they're afraid they can't flat foot the ground with both feet at the same time
>>2031718literally why the Townie bike was made.it's not a speed bike it's a comfy commuter
>>2031761That cruiser is sick
What tech, policies, city designs, etc, can be used to alleviate traffic congestion in the U.S. of A? I've seen some people suggest that we need to essentially obliterate The current car centered transportation networks we have in favor of stuff involving buses and trains (a ridiculous pipe dream Yes I know but I would also like to know if fixing the traffic issues is actually possible)x.com/the_transit_guy/status/1849965574513983784?t=LnWnXPGzOCHpUBPjXa30pQ&s=19
I’m in the Bay Area (yes rage at me and call me a faggot etc) and our subway system is about to go out of business within a few years. It was probably one of the largest subway systems in the country. Daily ridership before Covid was like 500k and now I think it’s like maybe half that. Unfortunately this subway system has never really been a recreational transportation system, by which I mean people using it on their own time to get around to stuff they are doing. It’s always been almost always just a work commute system. It’s used in off hours and off days, but nowhere even close to work commute and this was the case before Covid as wellUnfortunately here more than anywhere, the remote/hybrid work schedule for gay tech workers fucked the subway system. When you have so many people either no longer commuting at all, or commuting 40-60% less, revenues fell off a cliff. There’s very few American metro areas in my opinion where a subway system could be feasible. America is very spread out and the difficulty/added steps/added expense in getting to your closest station, and then from a destination station to your real final destination, is pretty debilitating to taking a subway when you can just take your car door to door. Over here, the most frequently used stations were all the San Francisco stations and the handful of Oakland stations, with a few here or there that had some sort of vibrant downtown or mall like Berkeley. I can’t really think of any major metro areas in the United States that would qualify. New York obviously, San Francisco, Chicago. Where else? Los Angeles and any major areas in Florida and Texas are extremely suburban and not closely packed urban areas.
>>2031747Then transit ridership would still increase.So would green energy production.
>>2031772>>2031746lol no. people hate transit because its at least 4 times slower and filled with assholes
>>2023278>6 lane highwayAsking for it. Lane hopping retards cause so much traffic it's unbelievable.Anyway the solution for solving traffic in LA is to get rid of california. Fuck that place.
>>2024145Because it's cheaper, as stated in the post you replied to, you dense fuck.
I want to get a secondary bike for doing errands, shopping etc around the town. I want something relatively small (don't have much space in the bike storage), with mudguards and a rack, maybe a basket too. I found this selling for 80€. Would it be worth it, and would it work for my use? Anything that would need an upgrade right away to turn it into a nice bike? Also, if I wanted to turn it into a dropbar (to make it more narrow for storage), how much money would that take approximately?
>>2027691People will often want their dream bike of their youth. Thats why there are so many boomers in vettes. They couldnt afford one in 1978. Oh and post bike.I like his builds>>2027685
>>2027675Oh it's a wheeler. Any idea from which country these frames are from? I actually bought one.
>>2028019WHEELER was founded in 1972 by CH Yang, one of the future pioneers of the Taiwanese bicycle industry, without any prior knowledge of the industry or technology. Mr. Yang, a visionary who was then working in advertising, realized that the bicycle industry was about to boom after a Japanese cooperation partner asked him about bicycle production in Taiwan and founded WHEELER in response.
>>2028057Neat. I've got a 6100 (?) one. Currently has 23mm tires. I used a 3mm and 4mm hex key to measure the tire clearance and the chain stay has about 3.5mm clearance left (on each side of the wheel). You think it can fit 25mm tires?
>>2025440Fixie or safety bicycle
How in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?!
>>2031662Debt. Lots of debt. They built a lot of stupidly big and expensive infrastructure with excessive debt on the basis that if their growth continued at the pace it was going, the debt would never be a problem. Of course, the slight problem with that plan is that there was no guarantee of continued high growth.Going to be interesting over the next few decades watching how China copes with the burden of all the shit they've built over the last 20 years. There's going to be some difficult decisions being made about where to allocate continued funding, what to shut down and demolish, and what to continue running on an inadequate budget while trying to avoid becoming a new Liveleak upload.
>>2031662>These commies are making us look like clowns!No they aren't. Communism has always had good mass transit because people don't have any property rights and cannot meaningfully oppose it. How old are you?
No matter what China's political or economic future is, Shanghai will always be one of the world's largest and most impressive cities. I hope to visit someday. Probably when Xi is no longer in power.
>>2031743And why can't mutts do the same thing...?
>>2031770Cuz money is spent on more important thing like the military industrial complex, ai datacenters and oligarch's flying dicks ehm.. """rockets""".
Since the days of Repack the sport exploded and splintered into various specialist sub genres, but for me this is what cycling has always been about, simple bikes out in the wild, taking on terrain that shouldn't be bike friendly.Here's a nice film that covers the birth of the sport from the perspective of a photographer who was part of that American story, tons of cool images.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsbJojnbdYYOf course off road cycling has many points of origin, in the UK we have the 'rough Stuff fellowship', which claims to be the oldest off road cycling club in existence and predates the Repackers by several decades, here's a link to a thread that talks about that.>https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/rewriting-mountain-bike-history.226245/No doubt throughout the history of the bicycle right across the planet, small groups and individuals independently 'invented' mountain biking' by simply taking whatever bikes they had and riding them in the wild. It would be great to learn more about the history of mans off road cycling adventures and perhaps discover where this amazing sport really was birthed.Share any images and stories here.
>>2031589Nah, you should rope. Ebikes are the apex of cycling cope. They were literally invented for people who are lesser than.
>>2031601I've never been in a race in my life, but if someone entered a foot race with a car and then bragged about how fast and easy it was, I'd think he was a dork, also.
>>2027258>sportAll those repack fags invented was bringing clique to nature riding and pay to win gear faggotry.
>>2031647>>2031654>>2031691Based anons
>>2031717how many cars do we have to drive to live this way?
The future of transportation has arrived. https://youtu.be/ZVFB2g25OkM
>>2031415Weird because I ride your mom every night.
>>2031393>omni-directional>can't flyfalse advertising
He needs to make a unicycle model
>>2031416
>>2031416And yet you never make it to work on time
>tfw no ethanol fuel cell for e-bikesImagine if you could just stop at a gas station and fill this little black box behind the seat tube in 4 seconds instead of risking a house fire to charge it overnight.
>>2022458You should all have your houses burn to the ground with you inside them for buying this cancer.Repent, discard your e-bike faggotry and ride a real bike.
>>2022511Pedestrians should be legally treated as a kind of vehicle. They should be required to have a headlight, taillight, brake light, turn signals and a licence plate. Pedestrians should be required to be trained and educated, pass a written knowledge test in order to be in public.
>>2022511>I will make you pay 50 euros per year plus insurance and have a piece of metal attached to your bike and that will make things better somehow
>>2027988This but unironically. Holy fucking shit why are pedestrians such fucking retards? They hog the sidewalk, stop very suddenly without a warning, are never aware of their surroundings and act completely unpredictably.Foot traffic is still traffic, asshat, treat it as such.
>>2022511sorta this. They have no place on bike paths but proper electric mopeds that drive under 20kmh should be unrestricted like regular bikes are and be forced to drive on the proper road or with reduced speed on the bike paths. This would kill 40% of all car traffic.
Space transportation general: Stage Separating into a new year edition. This general is here because spaceflight is increasing exponentially. We are up to at least a launch per week and we are now in the midst of flight testing an industry revolutionizing fully reusablesuper heavy lift launch vehicle.Upcoming launches:>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2025-launch-schedule/SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:>https://x.com/SpaceXUpcoming NASA operations:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
planaery bombardment
The Space Shuttle was a white elephant. A complete waste of NASA funds and held back space exploration for decades. Along with being the deadliest spacecraft ever.My mind will not be changed.
Just in: Finland signed Artemis Accords
>>2028216>simpEDS redditor tourist
>>2030270Won't happen, Artemis is a jobs program because Congress wants it to be a jobs program, and Congress won't give up its pork jobs
We have the flying boat. That planes over seaWhy not land ektranoplans that use electricity from electric lines as trains does.More speed, less road or rail lines infrastructure.https://youtu.be/MFv6Vabu5Uk?si=s55_6wo4rgDdHWsF
>>2031269what?
>>2031269>Boris I have idea>Yes Ivan>Boris you of course remember magnificent ekranoplan of great Soviet Union>You mean plane that cannot fly?>Yes that is the one>Well I was of thinking Boris what if also it cannot steer?>Brilliant Ivan we must tell 4chan
>>2031353Do trains steer?> electrified cooper bar at ground level. > magnetic atachment to it>cable from magnet to wing to ground efect.>a cable roll insite plane with sensors that pulls or let free the cable based on how plane move.> electric engine Fliyng electric train vagon
>>2031353Also Russians did not use the wing in ground effect. And i am not talking about on water transport
>>2031353Not to mention they got experience from it.Beriev Be-200 is currently the world's only jet-powered amphibious aircraft. California at one point want to buy them
