The problem is, what if the politicians and public sphere at large are convinced that "modern regional rail" is basically impossible, in part because that's what the people whose job it is to deal with hyper-technical details tell them, because they're stuck in outdated ideas?
I mean, Utrecht built the modern station in the same spot as the legacy one but it was a lot of work and required considerable infrastructure a few miles from the station itself. One of the lines has a flyover to switch from right hand to left hand running to facilitate the reverse move for example
Utrecht's terminal is for east-west intercities to reverse direction, and also for some Sprinters from the NE approach. It's actually very Japanese in how there are like 4 or 5 flows that are pretty much completely separated.
Vertical circulation did actually get improved at Penn, though mostly on the west side while the majority of commuters are going to the east
Also in the "European stations" category an instructive comparison might be Amsterdam Centraal (legacy) versus Amsterdam Zuid (new build, 1 platform face per approach track but being widened).
It's wide enough for what it is today, oddly enough, but might need to be widened in the future. But it's all a matter of math and assumptions about dwell times and passenger circulation etc. One way in which it is unusual is being the only city center station for the commuter trains to/through it.
The idea with Penn is to make it like Utrecht Centraal, 3 separate stations, meaning narrower throats thus allowing higher speeds
Right, so the 12 tph of intercity trains coming from Amsterdam gets divided between two platform tracks (per direction). 24 tph would mean... what, 4 platform tracks per direction?
To be fair to Amtrak they *are* trying to improve some things, the Harold bypass tracks will do a lot to reduce conflicts east of the station. To be unfair to the LIRR, the track connections from ESA are very ???
I mean yeah, you have to rebuild Penn to look more like Utrecht Centraal (fewer but wider platforms, simplified throats). Having an extra pair of tracks from NJ will help a lot with that.
ATO Zone, September 2014
Lighter red denotes areas captured by the Russian army after the invasion on August 24th.
Tokaido Shinkansen terminal (6 tracks, 18 tph peak), Tohoku Shinkansen terminal (4 tracks, 15 tph peak), and then the two underground stations, one a terminal and one through, with 4 tracks each. I count 8 operationally separate stations.
Tokyo Station has more than 3 operationally distinct sections, just counting JR. There's the Chuo Line terminal (2 tracks), the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines (1 platform face per approach track, totally isolated from everything else), the main narrow gauge station (4 through platform tracks)...
Yes Penn Station needs 16 platform tracks for the 12 approach tracks from one end and 6 from the other end, with trains reversing direction in the station.
Asking the Lebanese government to actually do something, it might prove to be an insurmountable challenge but hopefully they actually manage it.
Contrary to post gaining traction: Citi 1/9 We are aware that false information is circulating about our operations in the Middle East. Reports of damage to Citi offices and branches are false. Here are the facts.
FYI. Don’t get got (footage circulating is of Bahrain two weeks ago)
Excellent article by Faysal Itani outlining the dilemmas faced by the Lebanese state.
A key section here but it is sharp enough that you should read the full piece
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And like yeah, airbnbs are used by tourists who are annoying but they're also used by e.g. people getting out of bad housing situations.
Mexico's dispersed sprawl makes transit in periurban social housing estates so inefficient that employers are the ones who provide transportation. Basically, those communities are isolated on weekends when workers aren't commuting.
I also want to specify that the elite formation process in a petty tyranny isn't exactly conductive for the promotion of highly refined intellectuals and if anything smart people fall through the cracks above more often in the West
If we fail to fight for true liberation, instead settling for partial & conditional fixes that help some people some of the time, but which don't challenge the fascist foundational principles of the deportation system,
Yeah but sinking them doesn't affect any other traffic, whereas blowing up an oil train closed the rail bridge for months.
I guess according to him what they should have done is thrown water balloons full of paint at Israeli tanks
They don't want to run explosive/flammable trains over it because of what happened last time.
Even CBTC systems often have wayside signals at interlockings. On a mainline especially you need to be able to deal with unfitted/failed trains.
Fairfax/Santa Monica is also in West Hollywood though.
Lines on a map thinking
It's so silly. Yeah, people should be queer, but subway lines should be straight.
What is this squiggle and what is it supposed to do exactly?
Ukrainian military intelligence struck two vessels used by Russian military overnight, the railway ferry “Slavyanin” and “Avangard.”
Both vessels were key elements of the Kerch ferry crossing used by Russia for military logistics, including transporting weapons, equipment, and ammunition.
