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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1h

This aspect is equally about integration with Korea but since the SMR had such broad power it seems to have been a more natural place to go than the CGR, which was just a department of the Chōsen government-general

kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1h

The standard gauge gang historically included plenty of people who spent part of their careers on the continental railways. Which makes a lot of sense if you think about it

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 12h

In more outlying stations the bus/tram loops feeding into a fare-paid zone probably greatly increase the minimum concourse space. But those transfers are really integral to the design of the transportation system in general

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 12h

The ECLRT Kennedy station contains multitudes

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 12h

Dundas originally opened with just the stair entrances; the outside connections and the underpass were added in the 70s as part of the Eaton Centre and the Atrium commercial complexes. I love German surface-to-platform stations but they're also definitely not typical worldwide

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 12h

It was significantly more expensive per metre than, say, the T-bana, but not compared to, for instance, U-bahn Nuremberg?

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 13h

Finally, a sense of scale of the annoyingly long tunnel. I get why the Spadina Subway station was supposed to be called Lowther

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1d

Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat

Stations and transfers

A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.

stations.albertguillaumes.cat

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 16h

The MP40s do but the MP54s do not.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 17h

working at the South Manchuria Railway of which Goto had been founding president before becoming Minister of Communications.

As for the younger Shima, he cut his teeth working on electric mainlines under his father's bullet train project.

kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 17h

Actually, Shima the elder had, along with Goto Shinpei, had spearheaded a Taisho era plan to convert the National railways to standard gauge, which was cancelled in 1920 by the Hara government. Shima resigned and went to Manchuria, where standard gauge railways were under development...

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 17h

The Bullet Train project found a strong backer in Shima Yasujiro, chairman of the Railway Trunk Line Investigatory Committee of the Showa 10s. He was father of Shima Hideo, who's more famous as the father of mainline EMUs and of the Shinkansen trains.

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 17h

TIL in this great Substack article that earliest plans for Shinkansen was as early as 1939, and the Imperial Government was buying up land for Tokaido during WWII. Then-Japanese Government Railways bought ROW land dirt cheap thanks to the US bombings jrurbanenetwork.substack.com/p/shinkansen...

Shinkansen... We also need. 新幹綫~ 我們也要有。

China and Japan operate an ever complex and frequent HSR system. The environment surrounding the births of their systems can be similar and different at the same time.

jrurbanenetwork.substack.com

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 18h

It doesn't have dedicated head-end power so depending on the length of train and the conditions nearly 1000hp could be disappearing to that.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 20h

wondering whether this was with an operator inside like on the TTC side or on the CTSM side in UTO yard ops

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 23h

Something had to give for that home run. A price had to be paid to the civic gods.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...

Eglinton Crosstown LRT testing stopped — source says two trains collided

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT had begun its final round of testing on Oct. 7, but two trains collided in the Mount Dennis train yard on Thursday, leading to a pause in the test, according to a source.

www.thestar.com

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 3d

Lots seem to have the capability to but not sure where they are used. SoCal systems seem to use it on hot days.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 4d

The American centrist punditocracy has decided that what the US transit industry needs are endless lectures about the importance of security.

These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit

People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.

www.theatlantic.com

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 5d

Certain political figures are drawn like racist caricatures seemingly at random. Prince Konoe? Kishi? Chiang? yes. Matsuoka? Xie Wendong (a northeastern bandit turned KMT general)? no

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Wiarton Willy @wiartonwilly.bsky.social · 7d

This is an opportunity for Canada to unburden itself from the gigantic American automobile trend. Half of the current surge in traffic congestion is driven by unreasonable vehicle size.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 7d

In fact the JNR's share of the land travel peaked in the 60s and stagnated thereafter despite huge railway improvements, testament to the anti-rail effects of increasing wealth.

kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 8d

At the end of the day it's the difference between a century and a half of railway suburbanisation and a programme mostly of the last 10 years still finding its footing

kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 8d

Like AFAIK when the LSE joint corridor tracks are restored 15 minute clock face will return alongside peak expresses + opening the more centrally located Ritson Rd station

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 8d

"X place only got its current service level this decade" is true of basically every station on the GO network.
There's no arguing with unfavourable Oshawa comparisons but it's also in a weird spot currently because of construction

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 8d

Hamilton West Harbour has service volume like that of Trenton, Aurora, Providence etc.; Oshawa has more. Kitchener and Guelph are much worse off; local opposition MPs shout about yet-unfulfilled promises of half-hourly trains.

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 8d

www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr69/...

www.ejrcf.or.jp

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kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 10d

These examples are from Oakville, an affluent suburb on the western edge of the Toronto census metropolitan area. Actively sprawling, it's subject to density minimums in greenfield development as well as requirements for new housing creation.

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