@GNbeaker @discordspies Why is painting theif house whatever colour a bad thing? I thought it was all about freedom n shit
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Felix
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@discordspies It's the same straw man people use to explain why HOAs should exist everywhere (if there isn't one, then "people will paint their house however they want and stuff their lawn full of garbage"). This idea that people cannot be "good" without an overbearing force to look over them
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It's so weird to hear Americans talk like this because I've been reliant on public transport my entire life and it's just Not Like That in the UK
Is it really that consistently bad or is this a thing where everyone has like one story that colours their whole experience
𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝕬 🦇@Nyct0phil3_x
@trash_panda97 I think its okay to not want to live somewhere where getting screamed at and pissed on for simply using a train is a real possibility
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@BMLBod @jonnysmorrison @PickGS Nothing that is part of the railway system can move fast enough to respond to speed of such a change. Even recruiting/training staff takes months for guards and over a year for drivers. Capacity of paths is already maxed on most important corridors
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@jonnysmorrison @PickGS That’s the key. There are several things I can think of that are perhaps worth placing under consideration given the potential for extraordinary circumstances ahead, but viability of any of them is the big question.
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I do think the railway should begin to think about potential spikes in demand on intercity routes in the coming months. What if it suddenly becomes prohibitively expensive to fly or drive to Edinburgh from London because of fuel costs, for example?
Politics Global@PolitlcsGlobal
🚨🇪🇺 NEW: Ryanair have warned of a potential fuel supply disruption in May due to the Iran war
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@BrokenBritain_7 @lfg_uk @NetworkRailSCOT Areas with cronic issues are like that, like near the seaside. But in general, treasury hates to invest in expensive things that would decrease opex especially for rail
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@contrapunctus_m @lfg_uk @NetworkRailSCOT The problem is they have a long closure for one job, and then another long closure in the same place 6 months later.
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Turns out you can actually just do stuff!
Well done to @NetworkRailSCOT for completing engineering works in remarkable time – taking only TEN days instead of the usual ten months required.
We need more of this across Britain!
Network Rail Scotland@NetworkRailSCOT
Our engineers seized the rare opportunity of the closure of Scotland’s busiest station to deliver an extensive package of maintenance and renewals. The work done would have taken ten months using our usual overnight maintenance window. Read more 👇 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/major-eng…
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@ChelseaFinsF1 @obioneyouknowme @CrimeLdn Don't you have to wait for someone qualified to come and operate local switches and apply earth cables
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@contrapunctus_m @obioneyouknowme @CrimeLdn There can be more localised isolations as there are areas of overheads that cur away when one cuts in at the exact same point. I've had this happen to me not too long ago
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Happened at Croydon today, man on the tracks..
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@obioneyouknowme @ChelseaFinsF1 @CrimeLdn Surprised you have to quote ole plate since AC emergency isolations are between neutral sections so areas of up to 20miles. And what if you cant see the plate number from the cab
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@contrapunctus_m @ChelseaFinsF1 @CrimeLdn If u make REC call
State its an emergency call
Confirm who speaking with
Likely its signaller but they will be on same area as ECO
Signaller can deal with it is what I've been told.
U must state u need an emergency switch off and give them location
If it's ole tell which plate
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@obioneyouknowme @ChelseaFinsF1 @CrimeLdn Hmm? Does an rail emergency call bring in the ECO as well? Or is it that the signaller makes a second call after the driver explains to them why they made a REC
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@ChelseaFinsF1 @CrimeLdn I know
I drive trains
REC call would start that process.
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@danceforthesky @CrowdControl2k8 @CrimeLdn Only the rail on the outside of tracks is live (at least with a lethal current). No overhead wires here, it's rare to get both overhead wires and 3rd rail
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@CrowdControl2k8 @CrimeLdn Wait, the tracks themselves are live? Not just the wires? That's really interesting and useful information. Cheers.
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@patrickjreddy @NoelDolphin Hs2's speed was high because it allows fewer trains to be procured for a quite frequent service. Reducing the speed would save almost no money in the short or long run. With those two things, there's no good reason to go slow. Trains will reach line speed for 80% between ldn-brum
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@NoelDolphin Wrong focus and the line developed for the wrong reasons.
The whole extra speed over HS1 was never needed. The distances between stations made the top speeds unrealistic, even 300kph of HS1 will be unachievable for a lot of HS2 sections.
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I think the Times are a year late to this story about reducing speed to save money. What really costs money, is constant meddling since the start of HS2.
thetimes.com/business/compa…
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@JamesRayJRL @peterrhague US freight railroads also do things in rediculous ways despite having priority over the tiny amount of passenger (a unique benefit of N.American freight) and this makes them highly inflexible
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@JamesRayJRL @peterrhague The only countries with even a slim majority mode share in rail's favour for goods are Russia, Ukraine and possibly Switzerland. Everywhere else, goods overall are more likely on roads
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I hate this. Treasury brain is going to nerf what is left of this project, and rail advocates won't defend it because the bizarre hairshirt thinking they have where they insist HS2 is not about speed.
Speed is a key property of trains. It saves you time. Time is what matters.
Jonathan Jones 🦆@nmrqip
“Whitehall analysis has found that at the highest speeds, every additional 1mph has added about £1 billion to the overall budget.” thetimes.com/business/compa…
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@jollyjapes @GarethDennis Euston old? Is that the substation that's meant to be replaced by a new one built by hs2?
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@GarethDennis I was thinking about HS2 after working at Euston Old LU substation the other night. Could they have made a massive high speed tube like the Lizzy Line, stopping at Stratford international, Euston & Old Oak, done it all underground and had multiple reversing platforms...
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The incompetence of those now in charge of transport in this country is staggering. This HS2 article is basically fact-free. All of its sourced assertions are bollocks - yet this rubbish is currently further wrecking HS2.
thetimes.com/business/compa…
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@LowCarbonD61778 We are rolling out more renewables and storage solutions, they're all in the pipeline for the next few decades and that's good. The problem is that we need more transmission lines in order to utilise those renewables. Gas sticks around because of grid bottlenecks.
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@contrapunctus_m Word salad there! We need to roll out much more solar, wind and battery storage. This shrinks the fossil fuels (gas and bio mass), with inter connectors and then nuclear, gas should be right at the back as last resort fuel. Why do you think big foreign oil is crying so much?
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The usual clan say “oh what if the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow”…. Answer: what happens when the oil and gas doesn’t flow, and a certain place is rocked in conflict!
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@GarethDennis @WestMids_CA This is effectively a line reopening, and when was the last time we re/opened a new line and the service was electric! I think XR and before that, possibly Airdrie-Bathgate!
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Frustrations about level boarding choices made in 2015 to one side, it's really good to see this station deploying the brilliant @WestMids_CA TfWM branding - IT MUST NOT BE REPLACED BY GBR.
West Midlands Railway@WestMidRailway
🚆 All aboard! This morning, our services called for the 1st time at Darlaston & Willenhall 🗺️ The stations will connect passengers to the Shrewsbury, Birmingham & Wolverhampton. ♿ They feature sheltered platforms, accessible lifts, ticket machines, and secure cycle racks.
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When I started working on UK energy in 2007, fossil fuels provided ~78% of electricity. Coal alone: 34%. Wind & solar: less than 2%.
Today: wind & solar 33%, fossil fuels 28%, coal 0%.
The chart below tells the story better than words can.
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@MikeWillSee @RAIL Considering that the railway's grid supply at wimbledon and its associated 33kV network have been largely unmodified since they were installed in the 1950s, surely its their time soon. SWR are constrained on further hounslow services for this reason.
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TfL plans to electrify around half of new London Overground route - at least
railmagazine.com/news/tfl-plans…
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@spidey_simp @MikeWillSee @RAIL Is not a large section by any means. And running OLE over it to Kew junction would have benefits to the freight network
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@MikeWillSee @RAIL There's still the large section between South Acton and Old Kew Jn that would need electrifying. The ban on new 3rd rail means overhead lines from Acton Central to a changeover point likely at Brentford station. At that point they might as well extend the OHLE to Hounslow.
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@BenjaminOCall Surprising that the constraint of the greenbelt has not caused density considering it's been there for decades. There are also many other urban areas not in those greenbelts that must be sprawling even harder
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hot take: forcibly preventing sprawl is a good thing. build up, not across. cities like birmingham and manchester are 4,500 people / km compared to 50,000 in paris proper and even 10,000 in the paris urban area. densify, improve transit, don’t turn into america.
Amazing Maps@amazingmap
A map of England’s green belts showing the protected land surrounding cities where development is tightly restricted
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@Dykeocletian I thought genz men are supposed to be radically more conservative than genz women because of man's et al?
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What causes Britain's youth to be so comparatively left-wing? Is it the housing market, or the lack of decent jobs, or the boomer-dominated media and political class? All of the above and more? The Corbyn moment certainly plays a role, but similar movements happened elsewhere.
Tory Fibs@ToryFibs
Voting Intention of Men aged 18-24. • Green: 30% 🟩 • Labour: 21% 🟥 • Liberal Democrat: 17% 🟨 • Conservative: 12% 🟦 • Reform UK: 12% 🟪 Young men vote left. [YG]
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