@petoushkoff
Transport planner with views and opinions. Formerly of Moscow, Russia. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Coffee, cities, public transportation, piano music. Occasional cat noises may occur herein. 🏳️🌈
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...looks awesome, can't wait to get to read this!
I don't think this was part of the considerations.
Career has nothing to do with it—it's just difficult!
(It gets a bit worse in your 30s.)
special military operation
Moscow had these for about 15 years, although the design was a bit less brutalistic than this.
Front door boarding in large cities slows everyone down and contributes to bus service being unreliable and user experience being meh.
Welcome to the world of SOR buses!
- we need to decorate our cafe
- sure thing, how about a plastic croissant cut in the shape of a dog's head with a tree growing right from within it
- say nothing more
Note: three is great, four is meh. (I believe Praha is the only city in the world where four doors on a 12m bus and five on a 18m one are commonplace).
Melbourne rail map showing only West Footscray to Dandenong, and Flinders Street to Southern Cross with services every 15 minutes or better, every day 7am-midnight. Annual patronage (2024-25) 187.4 million.
Sydney rail map showing lines T1, T2, T4 (most but not all stations), T6, T8, T9 and M1 lines with services every 15 minutes or better, every day 7am-midnight. Annual patronage (2024-25) 354.6 million.
Melbourne's only got one major rail line with frequent service all day every day. Sydney has seven.
Frequent services get more people on board public transport more often.
I'm sure it'll be great!
Greek railway network is fascinating in the sense that unlike almost anywhere else in Europe it is pretty extensive yet doesn't go to a lot of places and doesn't seem to create too many direct and fast connections.
(Note: I have an extremely limited knowledge of Greece!)
Congratulations!
Just ordered a copy!
and that is notwithstanding the aperitivo that is to follow
US and Canadian academics when they see the catering of an Italian or French conference.
The incredible Chelsea station and the lovely pedestrian plaza by it.
Built in 2021, this whole complex was clearly designed with the purpose of ensuring that walking to the trains is a path full of as many physical barriers and as much human suffering as possible.
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
there must be some combination of issues in between the technology aspects, procurement policies, and cost optimisation strategies that together lead to this on a systemic level
and only if you have two left feet
I am not sure many people in Australia understand how vital that tiny paperback book might one day be, and how doubly so it might be having more than one.
The big news headline in Australia these days is that Australians with UK citizenship must now obtain and use UK passport to be able to enter the UK.
Watching people on the internet complaining about having to get a passport is absolutely wild.
216 is a good bus; however, I can't help from pointing out that Australian standards of 'bus full' threshold are a little too relaxed and may likely lead to unreasonably denied boarding.
This is nice!
May I ask, how do you make efficient use of such a space, which is inevitable in non-rectangular layouts?
Wasn't that Brisbane?
If the idea is to let the trains run directly between Melbourne and Brisbane (which is a bit of a stretch IMO, but I still can see how e.g.Newcastle to Melbourne makes sense as a trip), going through Central is a big detour that seems unnecessary.
Central and Parramatta is a strong local connection.
Why HSR needs to be tunnelled all the way from Hornsby to Central and then from Central to Parramatta, is a very good question both in terms of finding space (these corridors exist already, although conventional) and in terms of route directness.
Given what's on top of where the tunnelled motorways go in Sydney, I'd think of its system of motorway tunnels as a better alternative to what could have been.
Whether these motorways were necessary is a good question, but having them at-grade / elevated would've had parts of Sydney torn down.
can't dream from a fee perspective
The question of what happens with the current line after it does is also a very good one I do not have an immediate answer to.
I do not have instant answers to these questions, I'm afraid! There are many ways of doing this.
What I was referring to was what I believe needs to happen between now and when HSR comes in.