Interesting stuff in CO. While many coal lines have little use for psgr svc, there is a large # of trunk rts that are likely to see capacity/speed reductions as coal falls. It's an opportunity--if we can wake up to the need for integrated capacity planning
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Sometimes I feel like people have a hard time understanding that tramways can be very different 'modes' with very different performances depending on their urban integration and conflicts with other road users.

So I tried to make a diagrammatic comparison of 4 tramway lines

new S(ubstack)-Bahn out!

in 1982, the idea to dissolve and privatize the publicly-owned Japanese National Railways was a mere bureaucratic exercise among Japanese neoliberals. five years later, it became a reality. how does a national train agency die?

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