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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 4h

Like the entire Italian peninsula basically Fits this requirement and 2/3 of it is stagnant with a declining population!

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 4h

You weather freaks need to stop it. Cities are job markets not vacation destinations.

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 4h

You are misreading the use of “this instance“ 26-D is a general order that governs all clearances not just platforms. But as
it states “RSD agrees ADA platform requirements preempts section 3.4”

General order 26 is not preempted but section 3.4 always is.

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11h

Canadá is still #1!

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11h

Mile of track per 250 people? This rules. Even funnier that so much of that mileage wasnt close to where those people lived!

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t believe you could have level boarding on Caltrain’s rolling stock until the launch of the KISS sets. The gallery cars in particular are notorious for being totally unmodifiable to even a modicum of accessibility.

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11h

It is in fact preempted in all instances where you have a passenger train. CPUC has no authority to require a specific ADA remedy. The power to approve one besides level boarding lies solely with the department of transportation.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 12h

The wealth to build a good low speed rail network is probably somewhere around the USA in 1929 if you know what you’re doing. The UK basically had one in the southeast and the Japanese more or less got there by the mid 60s

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 12h

Switzerland’s wealth is an argument against the possibility of this. The poorer the country is on average the easier it is to get people to ride trains.

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 12h

CPUC in fact agrees with this analysis and it has nothing to do with platform height. “An exception is not required from general order 26-D.” docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDoc...

docs.cpuc.ca.gov

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 12h

You’re not going to get the approval for meeting (c) via (d) if it’s on publicly owned track. And (d) definitely doesn’t give the CPUC authority to make a judgment only FTA or FRA.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 12h

Clearly that doesn’t fulfill the desire to go 100ish km without a car. Anyways Switzerland exists and does all of this much better than anywhere in North America on a population of 8 million.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 15h

These were projects selected during, and largely funded during the Obama administration!

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 15h

16 years since alternative selection, 12 years from ground breaking! No wonder it cost so much!

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 15h

Oooof

Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 18h

Repeat: Metro expects the Wilshire D Line subway extension phase 1 - from Western (Ktown) to La Cienega (Beverly Hills) - to open by ~March 20 2026.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 15h

Hudson tunnel’s size compared to everything else!

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 15h

Why is this a particularly relevant metric? German monocentric cities are not very large. Berlin Is the largest of these. But it’s only the EU’s 6th largest urban area.

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 15h

Brazil obviously. The EU has more than 200 million people.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 15h

You mean in Germany the great high speed laggard of the eastern hemisphere?

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 16h

High speed night trains do something very unusual though. They run on a line that in the vast majority of the world would be shut at night for maintenance. Classic lines make compromises that High Speed lines generally don’t have to. (For example you need day freight on them too if you a network!

Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 16h

Lisbon does not have the demand to be the second Largest lusophone city. It has basically open borders with a country 20 times it size and Lisbon remains modestly sized.