For context, there was a post the same that said “New world train electrification in colour” with a map of the Americas that had only a tiny bit of colour
This bellend ☝️ went off on a rant about how the map wasn’t in colour, completely missing the entire point of the map lol
I’m a freight conductor. There is no schedule, unless you notice them happening at around the same time every day, you won’t find a pattern. We pretty much get a call and hour and a half before we need to go in at any random time of day or night and that’s when the train moves.
So glad that caltrain go ally has what would be considered normal in the rest of the world 🙄. But seriously this is a massive improvement and commuter rail systems should see this success and do this instead of trying to have battery powered trains and diesels that run under northeast corridor wires.
Agreed! I feel like Americans can’t imagine a future without seeing it somewhere in their home country. They travel to London or to Paris, enjoy the high-speed trains and the frequent metro service, and then come home and keep getting in their cars. So actually experiencing modern electric rail service (albeit not yet high-speed rail) in their own country is a big deal.
Thanks. I was going to look it up today. I am going to try and build a LEGO version of it. I was unsure if herzog was the manufacturer or the operator. But I figured either was it was a good place to start.
Is there transit on both ends as one of the challenges with rail in NA is once you arrive at your destination, it can be hard to make that last mile or so transit. It also has to be as fast or faster overall than driving and it has to be cheaper as people will just default to cars again. That has been my experience living in cities around the world.
I live in San Diego and follow the local public transportation scene and this is the first I’ve heard of these new cars. It’s not even featured on their news page! gonctd.com/about-nctd/newsroom/
For reference, the letter written to the Governor of California is to invoke the provisions of Government Code 3612, which if used would cause an automatic 1 week cooling-off period so a Board of Investigation can convene and gather facts for the Governor. At that point, if the Governor concludes from those facts that significant transit disruption would occur, or there is a risk to public safety or welfare, the cooling off period can be extended by court order up to 60 days.
This proviso in law appears to have been added in 2012, as a trailer bill off the end of that year’s Budget, that reorganized some parts of the state government.
In a slight departure from the norm, the article’s title suits the article but the subheader is superfluous and unsupported. What on earth does pursuing advanced degrees have to do with railroad antitrust laws? The only color that this blurb adds to the article is the ugliest sort of “yellow”.
The subheader’s premise is wholly betrayed by the article’s final conclusion:
In doing so, the Court cited a Rule of Reason it first articulated in 1899—that large size and monopoly in themselves are not necessarily evil.
So yes, certain trust-like behavior can be worthy of “regulatory and judicial punishment”, because that’s exactly what the public policy demands. Does it depend on a lot of things? Of course! Most things do!
I bemoan articles that lean into an assumption that something is cut-and-dry, because that’s almost never the case, but here, whichever editor wrote that subheader did the author dirty. Because the article body is mostly fine, let down by bad editorship.
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