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mrnyc

Mar 4, 2018 2:53 PM

arrested for reporting about historic tram in cairo:

https://nypost.com/2018/03/03/egypt-...toric-tramway/

M II A II R II K

Mar 4, 2018 8:51 PM

Chinese scientists test 1,000 km/h super train

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1091704.shtml

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- A super-maglev train that can reach 1,000 kilometers an hour is in research and development in China, with experts warning that technical issues still need resolving before it becomes operational. — The train incorporates two technologies: maglev technology to eliminate wheel-rail friction and evacuated tube transport to remove air friction.

- The idea sounds exciting, but there are still technical problems to face including safety and cost, says Sun Zhang, a railway expert and professor at Shanghai Tongji University. — "The train has to be able to stop whenever needed," Sun told the Global Times on Sunday. "It can be achieved in the open air using air resistance, but could it be an issue in a vacuum tube where no resistance exists?

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Eightball

Mar 4, 2018 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mrnyc (Post 8107122)

arrested for reporting about historic tram in cairo:

https://nypost.com/2018/03/03/egypt-...toric-tramway/

Not sure why you said Cairo when the article is referencing the Alexandria tram. I've actually ridden it before. Slow af and in truly terrible condition. But has a lot of potential if they would just put a little work into improving. The route and historic vehicles are dope. It is just utter trash at the moment like moves at 1 mile an hour and ride is rough af

mrnyc

Mar 5, 2018 6:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Eightball (Post 8107564)

yep.

just dont take any photos.

:uhh:

mrnyc

Mar 15, 2018 1:31 AM

too close !!! :eeekk:

http://9gag.com/gag/aDx163B

M II A II R II K

Mar 24, 2018 11:49 PM

Only a Few American Cities Are Growing Transit Ridership — Here’s What They’re Doing Right

Read More: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/03/...e-doing-right/

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Transit ridership is falling in 31 out of 35 major U.S. transit markets. There’s no shortage of challenges for transit right now: cheap gas, cheap car loans, and cheap ride-hailing apps all exert a pull, tugging at people to choose a car instead of a bus or a train.

- But that’s no excuse for failing to make transit an effective travel option that gains more riders. Despite all the factors working against transit, a few cities have managed to buck the trend and grow ridership, and other cities should learn from their example, according to the experts at TransitCenter. The big standout is Seattle, where transit ridership increased 3 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year. A few other cities have managed to avoid losing riders.

- Seattle and King County operate 13 percent more transit service today than in 2014, after bringing light rail expansions online while adding bus service. Those improvements were funded by ballot measures to raise revenue for transit. The effects of a huge 2016 transit ballot initiative have yet to even register. In Phoenix, the other high performer, voters approved a sales tax hike in 2015 to fund $31 billion in transit upgrades. More than half the revenue is dedicated to bus improvements, and increased service is already paying off with higher ridership.

- Of course, simply spending resources on transit doesn’t mean you’re spending them well. What distinguishes cities that are bucking the trend, says TransitCenter’s Zak Accuardi, is their emphasis on the whole system, not just improving or adding one route at a time. Seattle and Phoenix, for instance, both implemented substantial increases in bus service as they planned long-term investments in light rail lines. Houston, one of the better performers, has not only added light rail routes in recent years, it’s also completely redesigned its bus network, emphasizing the provision of frequent service to more neighborhoods and beefing up weekend service.

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The cities toward the top of this list are doing a few big things right, says TransitCenter’s Zak Accuardi.

https://i0.wp.com/usa.streetsblog.or...%2C100%2C705px

GlassCity

Mar 25, 2018 1:44 AM

Great article! So many people over-focus on rapid transit and dismiss the importance and effectiveness of improving bus transit too. Buses are typically the workhorses of our systems, even if we have sizeable rapid transit networks too. They need to be invested in as well.

M II A II R II K

Mar 30, 2018 5:20 PM

https://i.imgur.com/zWkVWzU.jpg

electricron

Mar 30, 2018 10:22 PM

Wow!
Those charts suggest the cities with the largest transit agencies also have the longest commutes, and the cities with the smallest have the shortest commutes. There has to be something wrong with that impression?

Maybe it’s the dog chasing it’s tail syndrome? Those with the longest commutes had to build the largest transit agencies because their commutes were so long, not the other way around?

Which might explain why cities with the shortest commutes resist building large mass transit systems because they don’t have that need.

M II A II R II K

Apr 14, 2018 9:59 PM

Norway is getting a floating suspension bridge tethered to the bottom of the sea — and it could change the way we make bridges

https://www.businessinsider.com/norw...a-floor-2018-4

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- Bridge engineer Ian Firth discussed the 3-mile-long bridge, which will cross a long and deep Norwegian fjord known as Bjørnafjord, during a talk at this week's TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Bridge foundations in deep water can be incredibly expensive. But the Bjørnafjord bridge gets around that by floating. — The Bjørnafjord bridge will stand on floating pontoons that will be tethered to the seabed. In order to create stability, the tops of the bridge's towers will be tied together. A similar floating design has been used for oil platforms in the past — but never for multi-span suspension bridges until now.

- There is still a long way to go before this kind of bridge technology becomes commonplace, however. The Bjørnafjord bridge's materials are well understood, but there are construction challenges, including the building and maintenance of the top cables. The bridge will actually last longer than the cables — which support the bridge — so replacements will have to be made available. — "Nobody wants to do something that's been unproven and yet everybody wants to be the first," Firth said. "Once we've sold the technical challenges, it will reach that sweet spot where the economics become something that's doable."

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https://amp.businessinsider.com/imag...c3-480-320.jpg

M II A II R II K

Apr 24, 2018 3:09 PM

Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...e-oil-industry

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- Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD Co. showed an early model. “Everyone was laughing at BYD for making a toy,” recalled Isbrand Ho, the Shenzhen-based company’s managing director in Europe. “And look now. Everyone has one.” — Suddenly, buses with battery-powered motors are a serious matter with the potential to revolutionize city transport—and add to the forces reshaping the energy industry. With China leading the way, making the traditional smog-belching diesel behemoth run on electricity is starting to eat away at fossil fuel demand.

- China had about 99 percent of the 385,000 electric buses on the roads worldwide in 2017, accounting for 17 percent of the country’s entire fleet. Every five weeks, Chinese cities add 9,500 of the zero-emissions transporters—the equivalent of London’s entire working fleet, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance. — All this is starting to make an observable reduction in fuel demand. And because they consume 30 times more fuel than average sized cars, their impact on energy use so far has become much greater than the than the passenger sedans produced companies from Tesla Inc. to Toyota Motor Corp.

- For every 1,000 battery-powered buses on the road, about 500 barrels a day of diesel fuel will be displaced from the market, according to BNEF calculations. This year, the volume of fuel buses take off the market may rise 37 percent to 279,000 barrels a day, about as much oil as Greece consumes, according to BNEF. — “This segment is approaching the tipping point,” said Colin Mckerracher, head of advanced transport at the London-based research unit of Bloomberg LP. “City governments all over the world are being taken to task over poor urban air quality. This pressure isn’t going away, and electric bus sales are positioned to benefit.”

- Other cities are taking notice. Paris, London, Mexico City and Los Angeles are among 13 authorities that have committed to only buying zero emissions transport by 2025. London is slowly transforming its fleet. Currently four routes in the city center serviced by single-decker units are being shifted to electricity. There are plans to make significant investments to the clean its public transport networks, including retrofitting 5,000 old diesel buses in a program to ensure all buses are emission-free by 2037. — Those goals will have an impact on fuel consumption. London’s network draws about 1.5 million barrels a year of fuel. If the entire fleet goes electric, that may displace 430 barrels a day of diesel for each 1,000 buses going electric.

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Busy Bee

Apr 24, 2018 9:11 PM

^The times they are a changin

dubu	Apr 26, 2018 7:09 PM

http://yournewswire.com/man-shames-t...need-charging/

This Man Shames Tesla By Inventing Electric Car That Doesn’t Need Charging

Amid a total media blackout, Sangulani Chikumbutso unveiled the first ever electric powered car and hybrid helicopter that are powered via electromagnetic waves and radio frequencies.

“By revealing undisclosed substance (industry secreted) to radio wavelengths, the Eco-friendly power generator has the capacity to funnel the power generated into function electrical energy. His assertion is always that he has moved past the rules of preservation of energy as generally comprehended as equivalent shift of energy from a single form to a different one proclaiming that this kind of “discovery” displays the application of basic gel battery packs in series of 220 volts generating a greater output in electrical power (500,000 Watts). We aren’t certain how this claim could be allayed, therefore we wish at some discussion board researchers will put the statements to test.”

will we be flying around in these in the future?
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/77MITIW.jpg[/IMG]

on a second note this website doesnt look that good of a source
this site is better and it looks like its true
https://www.techzim.co.zw/2015/07/zi...een-generator/

M II A II R II K

Apr 28, 2018 2:51 PM

Body of Maidstone man, 47, 'run over by 300 London Underground trains after being mistaken for fox'

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidston...tracks-182091/

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- The 47-year-old man's remains were found on the tracks between Holborn and Russell Square on the Piccadilly Line in the early hours of December 29 last year, with reports suggesting the body had been there since the previous day. A tube train automatically stopped just before 11.30am on December 28, after a rear trip switch was activated, but when a manager was sent out to check the area, they only reported seeing a fox lying dead.

- It wasn't until the following day - after an estimated 26 trains an hour would have passed along the line - when police were called and the remains were declared human. A British Transport Police spokesman said: "We were called at 1.42am on December 29 to reports that a body had been found in the tunnel between Holborn and Russell Square stations. "A 47-year-old man from Maidstone was declared dead at the scene. "The death was not believed to be suspicious and so a file was prepared for the coroner."

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Busy Bee

Apr 28, 2018 6:44 PM

^What can you say, the guy was sly...

I'm sorry. This is horrible.

M II A II R II K

May 4, 2018 3:28 PM

Kuala Lumpur-Singapore named busiest international air route

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-44000000

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- Planes made 30,537 trips between the two airports in the year to February 2018, OAG Aviation said. The route overtook Hong Kong-Taipei in a list dominated by Asian destinations. — Flying between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur takes about an hour, and there are plans to build a high-speed rail link between the two. The figures mean an average of 84 flights per day plied the route.

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exit2lef

May 7, 2018 12:41 PM

CityLab begins a series to convince people to appreciate buses more. A noble sentiment, but also a long shot in my view. It will be interesting to read nonetheless:

https://www.citylab.com/transportati...r-city/559262/

GlassCity

May 7, 2018 5:31 PM

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Originally Posted by exit2lef (Post 8179100)

I'm glad that this is coming up more often among urbanists. Too many people seem to think that only rail can be good transit, or that bus transit might as well not be there or "doesn't count." Buses are still the work horses of our systems and they need to be acknowledged as such.

exit2lef

May 7, 2018 6:42 PM

Here's a link to a page where the entire series will appear as new blog posts are added:

https://www.citylab.com/special-repo...to-the-future/

Swede

May 8, 2018 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by GlassCity (Post 8179402)

I'm very much in the rail-is-way-better camp and I do think BRT is mostly a way to stop rail from happening.
That said, you gotta have good bus service. Modern buses, integrated fare system, buses having priority in the signaling, proper bus shelters/stops, etc etc. Routes that make sense, and frequency that makes them a real option.
Many parts of that are relatively cheap too, all a matter of political will to prioritize buses over cars.

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