is it possible before 2030?
>>2061412the problem here is that 1. no one lives in those countries2. no one has a need to travel to and from those countries
>>2061506No, stealing money for your car misadventure is anti-freedom, commie faggot.
>>2061412I'm excited for this project, even though it will have no impact on me personally.
trains are extremely overrated by pro train shills. they dont nearly bring as much usefulness as people claim. how often is your average person from estonia really traveling 50+km to justify the need of HSR? does everyone just jump on the train and travel 200km daily for no reason? something like tampa to orlando makes more sense not soviet city 17 to city 20
>>2061917>Tampa to OrlandoStupid italians
Road signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals?
How would you represent exceptions graphically? At the moment every country writes this word with language and as a foreigner you can't always be sure if it says "except" or "applies only to". Annoyingly, some places don't even use symbols for vehicles it applies to, instead using text
>>2061850Bicycle in a green circle (on a slightly smaller sign than the others).
What if we made the Priority Road sign the same shape as two Yield signs
>>2061850smth like this i made in like 2 mins
>>2056325Quebec is fucking amazing to drive through, even the construction zones are marked clearly.
Disasters never have one root cause and neither did the destruction of cycling. But I know some important milestones in the decline and fall:1. COVID 19. Enough said.2. Full suspension mountain bikes. Enough said.3. Reddit. Enough said.4. Twitter. Enough said.5. British "people". Enough said.6. The d-tch. Enough said.7. The state of Utah. Enough said.8. Zwift, Peloton, "Spin Class", and other cancer. Enough said.What were some other key moments?
I could care less. As long as it's one less car on the road.
My town is putting in an ordinance to ban bikes on sidewalks and streets unless your a child. There will be bikes allowed but only from 11 am to 3pm and late evening. Also parking your bike anywhere on city property/sidewalks is now illegal Cops are being aggressive about it and impound bikes. You know so actual working, contributing memebers of society can do things like commute to work, pick up groceries/kids and overall be a functioning memeber of society.I hope this administration will turn the screw on bike culture. My town is one of the most bike unfriendly places and im glad, get these fuckers off the streets. Its clear when people ride a CHILDS TOY and become
>>2061839>you can ONLY go where we built you a special "path for bikes"John Forester was right
>>2061839>100% of cyclist deaths will be childrenBased.
>>2061728Hence the quotes. I'm the guy who made this, by the way... glad to see it making the rounds: https://archive-media.palanq.win/n/image/1603/03/1603034746952.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_bUVc7o7A> As a train enthusiast, none of these are brightlines fault. The only reason they have so many deaths are because of people doing stupid things around the tracks like trying to beat the train, or walking on the tracks. Do you autists not realize how sociopathic this makes you look?The train has killed over 180 people since 2017.It's killing a person EVERY THIRTEEN DAYS.
>>2058689you're just a huge faggot
>>2058516>retards don't wait for the barrier to go up/light to switch>get run over by a trainWhat's the problem here exactly?
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>>2059368God forgive me for saying this but I hope Siemens wins, Alstom cannot into FRA crash requirements given the absolute clownshow that was the Avelia Liberty.Plus they're fugly
the old lady one had me thinking maybe some people can just have a blank mind and ignore their surroundings without meaning to. like how plane crashes are a bunch of things going wrong to create the catastrophe most of the time. for example train crossings look the same at the beginning and end of the cycle. just red lights and the same bell ringing tones. maybe they can make them more similar to stoplights. after the end of the train crossing the red lights can turn green for example and play a different sounding/speed tone. you can also add another set of lights on the opposite sides of car travel to give more visual signs to not go through. could also make crossing arms twice as wide
>>2061630I could have run around and pulled back, but then I'd have to run around again at the yard and they'd need two clear tracks. I opted to save myself an hour and a half and shoved back. I had classes in the morning and I was working and needed to sleep and study. It was pretty dope working 5 hours a night and getting paid for 10.
While riding my bicycle to work, in bright daylight, in a left turn on a slight hill, a car came speeding dead centre towards me, graybearded driver just drinking schnaps from a hip flask, on the wrong side of the road! Both of us looking at each other wide-eyed, immediatelly swerving to evade, missing each other by half an inch.
>>2061607Go back to /pol/, fecking nazi, an stay there!
>>2061607based
>>2061591Loosing all oil pressure during a test flight and landing with only a quart to spare.
Post your favorite or most used train station or bus stop.Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
>>2040941To fix Penn Station, they have to bulldoze MSG, rebuild every single platform and track from scratch, and then force NJ Transit, the MTA, and Amtrak at gunpoint to work together.My deranged fantasy is that they build a 2,000 ft tall skyscraper on top of the site, complete with a grandoise train station, a 40,000 person stadium on top of that, and then many floors of hotels and apartments and offices on top of all that; basically the capitalist equivalent of the Palace of the Soviets, and then connect it to Grand Central Terminal (Station?).
I might make a whole thread on SMART it's a splendid little system for commuters
>>2059836>then force NJ Transit, the MTA, and Amtrak at gunpoint to work togetherLIRR as well I would presume. What is NJ Transit and Amtrak doing to fuck each other over?
Footbridge to the main train ticket office Havant UK. Gateway to the town, first thing most visitors see from the street or when arriving from the west by rail..
My local bus stop is unremarkable but in terms of LRT Commercial-Broadway is the one I use the most living in Vancouver. It's a beauty of a station
https://youtu.be/K3Nl3LOZNjchttps://x.com/Breaking911/status/2003194419382563206
Flying is far easier than driving
>>2061778Landing though?
there will always be a pi-
>>2061824greasing down a 172 is something done thousands of times every day by retarded teenagers and alzheimers incare patients.
If Dreamstar brings back the Lark, it would be a good stopgap measure until CAHSR Bakersfield-Palmdale opens in the 2040s. The Coast Starlight sucks, nobody wants to spend 12 hours in the middle of the day going from Jack London to LA Union in a train with no wifi 9 am to 9 pm.Stuff the economy cars with reclinable seats, put all the crying babies in one car, dim the lights, and let me sleep 9 hours to LA Union Station for under 100 dollars. They're not going to be able to achieve their stated goal of 2026. There's an equipment shortage and they won't be able to get everything in place in time. Even if they only run the service during holidays when airports are packed and airlines raise their prices it will still be a boon to travellers as long as the price is cheaper than a flight
California is planning so many expansion projects it's insaneSMART to CloverdaleBART to Livermore, eBART to Brentwood Capitol Corridor going back to precovid frequenciesCaltrain to Watsonville, Salinas, (theoretically) Santa Cruz and MontereyACE-Valley Rail which I haven't read about yetCAHSR IOS done in 2032 hopefully, Pacheco Pass tunnels done in 2038 allowing CAHSR trains to run to 4th and King, which will change real estate in the CV forever.A bunch of Metro expansions in LA that I don't really know aboutBART to Downtown San Jose/DiridonWhat's up with that? Did transit agencies come into a surplus during COVID and begin a funding spree? They sure aren't spending it on homelessness that's all I know
>>2060722>Dreamstar>They're not going to be able to achieve their stated goal of 2026.It's never going to happen, as was said in your previous thread about this shit
>>2060722Or you could have posted an "update" in this thread instead of now having 3 threads about the same shitty "service" that won't ever happen
Almost two years ago, I put up a thread about Dreamstar Lines, a company aiming to reinvigorate private passenger rail in the US with an overnight service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which has been absent since the discontinuation of Southern Pacific's Lark service in 1968. Today, I've come to bring you some updates>restored Bilevel cars (either Santa Fe Hi-Levels or retired Amtrak Superliners) will be used at first, but there planes to replace them long-term with modern purpose-built cars>BMW subsidiary Designworks, has been contracted to design the car interiors, drawing heavily from Art Deco (often considered the zenith of American passenger rails service)>there are now four class, family, bedroom, suite, and standard, the latter will be the highest class despite its name>amenities will include both late-night dining in a dedicated bar car as well as room-to-room breakfast service>rather than purchase surplus Amtrak or Caltrans motive power, or even buying Simens Chargers, ZELTECH and HyOrc have been contracted to design custom locomotives using the Rankine-cycle for the service in order to comply with California emissions requirements>start of service has been pushed back to 2026 at the earliest (shocker), with the aim of launching in time for the 2028 Olympics in Los AngelesSources:https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-freight-rail-fueled-a-new-luxury-overnight-train-startuphttps://drifttravel.com/dreamstar-lines-art-deco-iinspirednteriors-overnight-rail-service/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2061792>Almost two years ago, I put up a thread about Dreamstar LinesYes and it's still around (>>2011902) because you kept bumping it despite there being no interest in something that will never come to fruition anyway. You also made this thread about it that also generated zero interest: >>2060722Stop shitting up the catalog
Since there's already a thread about Pacific Electric, I think I'd dedicate one to its younger Northern brother.
>>2056623This might seem like a silly question but were the Key System trains ever coupled up to each other?
>>2057995OP’s photo shows those articulated bridge units with couplers so they must have been MU’ed at some point, maybe during rush hour.
>>2057995Bridge units (which were two cars each) were coupled together up to three (or four? units. Not sure). Trains of different lines were afaik never coupled together.
Did the Key System really die or did it just evolve into BART? BART was already in the planning stages when the last Key trains ran in 1958 and from there it was a mere 14 years before the first BART trains started running.
>>2059895It died and was reborn you might say
I want to strangle every single big buck roadie fred and especially every single downhill-bike-in-a-park pomp who rides around just to do chainsaw sounds with their bicycle's very very expensive hub. "Give way, the asshole is coming!". Like, if you wanna make motorcycle sounds, get an actual motorcycle. A Harley actually sounds cool. A freewheeling bicycle sounds supremely annoying, and also means you are a weak shit who is not pedalling. Fuck you, go ride into a river.
>>2056925truly hikers pay for nothing buy nothing and just shit up trails made for other purposes.
>>2031789>fixie that isn't a rusty chain death trap screeching its presence to all within 100 metersa likely story
>>2059372I keep my fixie mounted on my bedroom wall, my chain still looks new. Suck it.
>>2056925this keeps happening to me even though my bike is inherently loud as fuck. it's a total rustbucket AND has an electric motor that whirrs away with gears and shit.>>2056347to expensiv
>>2056925121st post best post
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
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>>2030608Based Aldi cargo mission. I was considering getting a trailer or racks to carry water bottle cases + multiple bags of groceries. Not sure which I should get first, but it seems like the trailer can be removed/mounted quicker for when I'm not carrying much.
>>2061727Almost a decade ago I hauled 4x50lbs bags of mulch using a trailer, I finished the job but bent the hitch. I straightened the hitch but it snapped while hauling nothing. I had a bad experience with trailers but I had the shittiest garbage tier trailer, if you're going to get one get a good one. It's kind of why I swear by front racks now. (Rear racks are another story)A 24 bottle water pack is about 25lbs, the limit of a strong front rack is 50lbs for lighter duty and 75-100lbs for heavier duty bikes, depending on setup, wider bars help steer, wider tires help handle the load. A trailer is for over 100lbs and will cost 2-3x of a front rack maybe more. An empty front rack doesn't effect handling that badly and a trailer adds so much inconvenience to what should be the most convenient tra/n/sportation option. What effects front racks the most is significant aero drag from a big bag, foldable one is nice but a rigid has advantages, just get stronger lol
>>2061730How do you think that bag compares to something like >>2061719This ?(keep in mind, it's a couple layers, and some THICK reinforced canvas, and you could throw an extra heavy duty outdoor xxL garbage bag in as well to add another layer.)
>>2061776I really like packing weight on my back but I've heard most hate it because of back sweat, which is a legit problem for me too, even in winter, but it doesn't bother me too much, I ride long enough each day I can find 15 minutes to air out my back and shoes. The problem with that pack (as well as the one shown in OP) is the low quality shoulder straps and no back support, bad straps will make even 20lbs feel painful and a back support is really helpful for hauling over 50lbs
Although I set out some preferences for the last one I ended up settling for literally anything to do with Britain. Those preferences about foreign exports and rare diversions remain in place but otherwise post what you like as long as it fits the broader requirement
>>2060054Combos of AC & DC and different AC frequencies do not mix and need special equipment to isolate them from each other. Thameslink has 750V DC/ 25kV AC voltage switchover points at Farringdon and City Thameslink, which happens multiple times daily with no issues. However, dual voltage rolling stock was more complicated to produce and less reliable in the past than now. Not sure BR would want to spend lots of money on niche rolling stock to avoid changing equipment specifications. Especially as line-side renewal was needed and conversion would be at its easiest during the renewal process. After the line was cut back to end at Hadfield and Glossop, the old gantries were used with the new 25kV AC equipment so it could be done. The cost of doing it the whole way would have been well beyond BR's budget.Higher/lower voltages (e.g. 1.5kV & 3kV DC) can mix but only if the supply is lower than the train's rated voltage. It's probably better not to do this for very long or at a high power draw to avoid damage.
>>2060027>if the DfT can stop being incompetent and have a coherent planWelp, that's the end of that idea then.
You guys are lame for not posting actual images
>>2053704The old trains are classic but the new ones are better imo.Also, it's an interesting railway, the only 4ft gauge in the UK
>>2060076i remember when they were first introduced the blue trains were smth retarded like 6.25kV next to 25kV AC because we couldn't really do 25kV that well back then (1959)>>2061708i actually prefer the newer ones, because they shoogle \more/ than the old ones as a result of the upgraded ATO raising the average speed. makes for quite a fun experience when you are sat next to some fat mother of twenty from a govan tenement
when pilot sample the chemtrail supply
and look at that - two secret compounds sending the chemtrails back and forth to make them stronger
What's the purpose?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna145015At least somebody got some damn sense
>>2061602To make anyone automatically doubt any conspiracy. >Government spying on you? >Covid vax is unnecessary and dangerous? >Congressmen insider trading? >The Federal Reserve purposely inflating your wealth away and murdering people who try to stop them? >Fake ballots stealing an election? >White replacement? >Heh, I'll bet you believe in chemtrails and flat earth too!
>>2061743The X-Files was right about everything all along.
Confess your sins, /n/.
>>1985790Transportaically speaking, as a teenager i didn't care about my own life. I would ride my bike without paying attention. A couple times i almost got run over by a car because of this.
>>2061695>build a Girandoni-style rifledo it
>>1987298based
I buy watches instead of bikes nowadays.
>>1985790I gave away a bike.
