kaptrice
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Designed to serve more than 150,000 people who will live and work along the eastern waterfront and accommodate over 50,000 daily riders, Waterfront East Transit puts people first – ensuring transit is planned for future growth and for the communities who already call the waterfront home. This week’s tri-government commitment to advance Waterfront East Transit lays the foundation for a thriving waterfront: new homes, new neighbourhoods, and connected communities and destinations. For Waterfront Toronto, this marks a major step forward in building a waterfront that is truly connected, inclusive, and complete. Watch our YouTube video and read the press release to learn more: bit.ly/4s8gs13
coal to liquids is so fascinating: you need to be rich enough to make the huge upfront investment in industrial capacity *and* be seriously worried about getting cut off from oil, which leaves you nazi germany, apartheid south africa, and china
This screenshot from @alanthefisher's video on Amtrak privatization is the boiled down, super simplified reason private railway service is worse than public railway service. Profits do not go to the system in its entirety, and under private operators, service will deteriorate.
Ngl, the one thing I am shocked at is this: Despite National Income fata showing South Korea catching up to North Korea by the 60s, heavy industry in the South took well into the 70s to catch up to the North. Even in the 60s, SK steel output was comparable to post war NK.