“Rivers of Blood;” lexicon of Herodotus; dream was to be viceroy of India
“Rivers of Blood;” lexicon of Herodotus; dream was to be viceroy of India
The only time Enoch Powell should matter to a person is if they are reading Herodotus. Very disturbing to see these weirdos resurrecting Nate Hochman.
You’re dealing with over an order of magnitude more people on one end than the other
The southern side has San Diego which has 3.2 million people, as well as the OC. Santa Barbara has fewer than half a million people. Demand for train ridership is not black magic.
This is absurd
Also have seen how some of these long term estimates are “stacked” the amount of various contingencies can be absolutely insane.
Coast guard is a real menace. Is anything shipping through it commercial?
The street running segment should just be removed from the vehicular grid. Maybe leave a walking/bike path would allow you to boost speeds.
Been awhile since I looked but how deep is it? Would a bridge really be worse?
This would be so cheap to avoid too…
If it’s finished!
Where’s the east link section?
Thinking about this. Is this YoE and thus the cost is tremendously sensitive to the inflation choice.
Almost entirely irrelevant to the question of “where is the ridership” and “where is the public ownership” which here thankfully overlap quite nicely.
The crazy thing to me at least is if you look at the map the hard things look almost all done!
One Hundred Eighty Five Billion 185,000,000,000 Let this number sink in.
In fact the only flight I can find that’s sort of natural for this is SCL-PEK if you can go over Russia.
Why? It’s not particularly good for connecting to the southern cone and has ~no OD demand.
Ok sorry “LOSSAN South” aka where all the ridership demand is. We don’t have to pretend the same solution is needed for the lower ridership northern tail.
Funnily enough the article includes PEK-MAD-GRU which is the market I mentioned.
This is how I learned Plainfield, IL is on Lake Michigan water.
It’s actually crazy how far out you can be and still be buying Chicago water.
It’s the opposite lol. Houston gets all sales and property tax revenue from commercial real estate and forces tons of low density suburbs to pay for everything themselves.
Idk man!
You won’t take my hot shower in 35 C weather away from me!
Pregnancy is an important cost but actually raising children is a far bigger cost!
The difference in cost burden between dc and the suburbs is crazy because MoCo-Arlington-Alexandria are all kindergarten starts.
Part of the reason the baby boom is very interesting is because in fact births per women was declining in Europe and the USA well before the modern women’s rights movement and the baby boom represents a brief deviation from that norm.
God bless the people’s republic of DC starting with pre-k3
You all did at one point!
I mean some services seem to keep getting better with size. Certainly the train network of Tokyo is considered better than Osaka’s which is better than Nagoya’s which is better than Sapporo’s a lot of that is probably due to returns to scale.
I mean they keep moving to the most crowded place in Japan (greater Tokyo) so it certainly seems that crowding and congestion are positively associated with desirability in Japan. Meanwhile the least crowded areas continue to lose people n
I didn’t say growth was always good or necessary. I said it was the revealed preference of the public, which I think is much more interesting than my opinion.
Japan has very low productivity per hour worked (some of the lowest in the developed world) reforming their office culture to prioritize fewer hours probably would have very little negative effect on business.
In fact there’s very little evidence public services get worse with more people but decent evidence they get worse with fewer as areas become unable to reap the rewards of specialization and scale that come with more people.
Japanese home prices are already very low. And “public services are less taxed” and “subways less crowded” are sorta contradictory as you need a much higher tax burden per person if fewer people are on the trains if you want the same level of service quality.
Sorry I hate it. The head should obviously be lower not upper Manhattan.
Congestion in Japan on trains is much better than it was in 1970. But you’re making a philosophical argument that I think most people just don’t agree with given what politicians end up prioritizing.
I mean I really think it’s difficult to dispute that people on average don’t want the newest iPhone or the ability to take a vacation to Europe or whatever. Japan has pretty good public services but I’m sure many Japanese would like more money to buy fun stuff
I mean people like being richer? Don’t most people you know want a larger salary? Japan has put all this effort in in an attempt to be a much richer country. It isn’t working but clearly that’s where they want to be.
Sure but you can easily fit more people within the current developed footprint pretty trivially.
Yes I admit it’s a very funny complaint to me as a North American.
The average Japanese person lives in a two story structure and the country has depopulation issues everywhere that isn’t within 1 km of a train station in greater Tokyo.
I mean the point being the per capita income is much lower compared to its peers than it was in the 90s. Maybe you think we don’t need economic growth anymore. That’s fine! But it’s not a popular opinion worldwide! People really like new iPhones, vacations etc.
But in theory a more viable path for like Finland than the USA.
Japan is much poorer now relative to its European and American peers because of the shrinking labor force than it was 30 years ago. And they’ve spent billions on robots with only modest results. Making productivity grow faster is very hard!
I think it’s much more about social reaction to the pandemic, which has very difficult to quantify ramifications for the global social fabric.
Well they have a big issue in 1. A decline in workforce aged people has led to stagnant/slow growth 2. A growing dependency ratio means extant workers pay larger and larger shares of their income to pay for benefits for the elderly.
Japan is less sexist than South Korea and China so it basically has its population hold up better.
Basically a global phenomenon as this point as China and South Asia are below replacement fertility. The countries above are almost all sub Saharan Africa at this point.
I think there are probably different choices that could be made (the amount of stopping patterns doesn’t help), but yes the UK’s track utilization has always tracked closer to CH, NL, BE than bigger countries like FR, DE, IT, but investment in basic modernization like electrification has lagged.
The sexism problem is even bigger. If a decent chunk of women each generation simply don’t have kids because they can’t find someone worthwhile to have children with fertility is not going to be very high.
Pro-brexit. Autocorrect
Hardly a UK only issue. Women everywhere report difficultly finding a worthwhile spouse and it has been creeping up the income/social status ladder.
Many people world wide are engaged in zero sum status games raising kids. My favorite stat is American dads now spend more time with their kids than moms did in the 60s. Moms response: spend even time with their kids. In the USA it’s the extracurricular chauffeuring; Japan elaborate boxed lunches
Japan has the highest birth rate in east asia at this point.
The actual global issue is the math doesn’t work for us, India, and China all doing that.
The suitable man gap is definitely an issue.
Not just there problem! It’s probably why fertility is so low all over Asia and Latin America.
The craziest is how Japan managed to do this despite having made children’s travel just about as easy as possible n
The British rail network is such a tremendous contrast to the American one. Almost makes you wonder why they bother to build roads n
The complexity difference between these two sets of projects is enormous.
The time to debate the meme was 2021
Cities are not for fun.
The fire engineers I’ve spoken to about the UK’s post-Grenfell building safety regulation situation are all appalled. Even leaving aside the staffing issues raised here, there are few prescriptive rules for designers to follow for tall buildings, and what rules there are are often unreasonable.
And of course of those ten largest 8 are semiconductors or software, one is Saudi Aramco, and the tenth is BH. Obviously the other exciting technological innovation of the last 5 years (GLP-1) is originally danish (and only 200B.)
How much of the size differential between the USA and Europe is due to the exogenous fact that UC Berkeley and Stanford were both really good at physics, electrical engineering and computer science? Even the tenth largest firm (Berkshire Hathaway) is >4 times smaller than the largest.
The way you know she’s lying is you can’t study medicine as an undergrad.
Working in the Monterrey Metro for two years has been interesting and sad. Mexico's richest city has some of the world's worst planning. Basically, the city sprawled in high-density isolated satellite cities in financially overwhelmed municipalities with huge housing abandonment.
Absolutely.
Feels like this should help our like England where HS2 hits a huge number of destinations.
He’s dead. They’re announcing he died
Slow progress, but progress.
I think I spent about 30 minutes inside the Consular section and the visa was issued in two business days.
It’s actually very easy to get a visa to go to china. It can be done in under a week.
Doesn’t Delaware pay for this service too!?
Yeah I assume this is from some NEC future doc?
This seems to be good advice for almost any research project for kids.
Yeah this violates my rule about visiting. Now train station; no visit.
Last year nobody noticed Pickle's lunatic claim that extreme poverty in China rose from 5.6% in 1981 to 68% in 1995! You would think under-5 child mortality would skyrocket under such circumstances. No sign of it (but there was a slowdown in the rate of reduction in the 1980s relative to 1970s).
I’ve never met a politician who didn’t want to prioritize rail to nowhere over good service somewhere. People forget that JNR debt was also driven in part by stupid rural construction projects.
I assume it’s not very railroad accessible?
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At worst the link should have been second!
You gotta adapt to the local culture and put the link in the first post. You’ll get more traffic!
Nice to see it just passed 50% approval to rejoin. Hopefully to can stay there.
I mean that was my point about seats v. Overall margin?
Where is this?
I think brexit won is something like 2/3s of seats? Given that it was the issue and the lib dems firmly planted themselves as its opponents I think there are real limits to having a winning coalition that’s solely “Brexit was wrong” at the moment.
Problem with FPTP the pro-btw it coalition is absurdly efficient
They should have just lied.
No more Braedynns. If you're Jewish, you get named for a dead relative, if you're Catholic you get named based on the nearest saints day and if you're Protestant you open a Bible to a random page and choose the first name on that page. Return to tradition
Yeah a state that can build you get things like high speed rail to Urumqi or Santiago de la Compostela. A Brazil that’s good at building trains has a network much larger than the example in the applet.
Yup looks right.
Harvard, IL.
Scarsdale-mainline is actually a place where Amtrak probably Captures a non zero segment of the market.
Americans and already abandoned trains for driving. The one route I’m aware of the private company wishing to keep was LA-SD. Everything else was bleeding dollars.
Feels like a weird comp. Most intercity travel in the USA is by car, and that has mostly inferior performance characteristics to a train.
Im not citing an out of state number though I can’t remember where I read it.
Americans are too rich for long distances buses for sure, they’d just fly. But east of the Mississippi rail demand is undertapped for sure.