Are you sure it was really bamboo and not just stylised to look like it?
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I am absolutely certain it is bamboo. Here is the website for the frame-builder: http://districtbamboobikes.com/ .
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There was a neat episode of How It's Made or a similar show that showed the making of a bamboo bike. It's probably on YouTube somewhere.
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Japan’s Levitating Train Hits 310 MPH in Trials
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Design your own street layout: http://streetmix.net/
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Did You Know That Buses Don’t Need Seat Belts Because, When Inside…
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Newton also probably has something to do with why buses are safer, a Honda accord weighs a hair over 3000 pounds while a city bus weighs between 30000-40000 pounds, about 10 times as much.
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Last chance to pick Boston's new transit map from the finalists:
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Rail & Property Development: A Model Of Sustainable Finance & Urbanism
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The perils of allowing politicians to dictate transit expansion, and particularly leadership changes.
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The new Tours tramway cars are neck and neck with Lyon:
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A JTA Skyway station fire in Jacksonville, a couple of years back...
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They're the same trams. Most French cities all use the exact same vehicles, but each city gets a distinctive front cap snapped onto the front, so they all look unique.
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there are many cool and unique streetcar/tram/LRT designs out there and they look great at photo ops but when they get on the road and the transit agency pastes every square inch of them with advertising that they go from cool to moving billboards.
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A Wireless Electric Bus That Charges Instantly At Every Stop
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Self-Driving Pod Cars Are Coming to the U.K. in 2015
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The cost of an inner city Toronto intersection.
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^^^ Very interesting!
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A Giant Inflatable Plug To Keep Our Subways Dry During Storms
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A maglev for America
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We do not need this type of development, IMO. We should not try to skip ten steps and become world class on the basis of a short demonstrator line. Instead, we should do something like increasing the average speed of all Amtrak and other government operated train services 1 mph per year for the next 30 years. This would be rather inexpensive, at first. Then, as the benefits became increasingly apparent, the cost of the next 1 mph increment would increase. |
And of course trains with their own dedicated trackage.
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I see the picture, and all I can hear in my head is Phil Hartman shouting "Monorail!" lol
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Good god, Atlanta sure knows how to sprawl!
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Top traffic cop: Dedicated '200kph' road for UAE motorists could become reality
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1st) The question of Amtrak and other public and semi-public trains having scheduling rights, and, vigorous penalty clauses for breaking these scheduling rights, is central for over the short term. This might be in exchange for infusions of government money to add sidings on single track lines long enough for freight to continue moving while the passenger train passes on the main track. Double tracking should be the norm for any passenger/freight corridor with 3rd track sidings. 2nd) The issue is not complex technology, and, compared to running dedicated two track passenger lines, rather cheap. Rather, the issue in the US (and to a lesser extent in Canada) is political, as exemplified by Amtrak. The federal and state moneys that cover the operating losses for most lines is highly "visible" in budgets, and, politicians have always been able to sound 'conservative' by attacking this very small part of state and federal budgets. In addition, the Big Seven North American Railroads- BNSF, UP, CSX, NW, CP, CN, and, KC lobby constantly to reduce regulation and ideas about sharing traffic on their lines, over which they could be liable for scheduling errors. 3rd) The issue, IMO, is not increasing the speed from 79 mph to 110 mph, but, increasing the track mileage over which passenger trains can run 79 mph. ********* The sad part is that adding a few thousand miles of siding and 2nd tracks at a cost of $20 to 30 million per mile in constant dollars when combined with penalty clauses over scheduling, could make huge impacts on efficiency and speed. If, for example, 3 thousand miles, or an additional 2.5 percent of the current rail track grid were added, in constant dollars we are talking about $6 to $9 billion dollars spread out over a period of about ten years.* A huge side benefit would be increasing the average speed of freight trains running on the same lines. *add sidings and double track where do so is cheapest. Urban area bottle necks are a harder nut to crack, and, would stand out even more if rural speeds were to increase. A possible solution might be to move the passenger stations to multi modal freight terminals, generally located in the suburban fringes of cities. These could be serviced by buses, short term, and city wide public transit lines long term. |
Nude "goddess of the train" stops CTA Red Line at Granville
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Lawmakers Score Conservative Bona Fides By Attacking Efficient Transport
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Japan wants to sell its super-fast levitating trains to the US
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One of Stockholm's main focalpoints is gettign re-developed starting next year. Today it's a maze of ramps for cars and tunnels for pedestrians. Right next to the Old Town. The new plan has met some resistance, but by far the majority of that is based on and/or is spreading false information about both the current situation and the planned new solution.
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Malacca Monorail: Springfield Comes to Life
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