Urban sprawl is good as long as you have extensive coverage of railways, it's comfy too because it makes the urban core larger and takes longer to navigate through which is a vibe. Does your city qualify for CHAD status? Requirements:>central urban area footprint of >=300 km^2 >at least 5 major intercity railway terminals within the urban zone>metro footprint >=1200 km^2
>>1994210>Urban sprawl is good as long as you have extensive coverage of railways
Asshurt schizophrenic troll thread
>>1994216Ok, but i too would like to know what is going on in that map. what do the black lines represent, why is it so distorted?
>>1994210How many Indians do you reckon have died on those tracks
>>1994335Just a case of predators keeping the local population from growing out of control
What are the most /n/ films?For me its Kontroll, the hungarian masterpiece>Opens with a budapest transit official say they were happy to help make this film, but please don't think it reflects on our actual service>Entirely set in the subway>Excellent soundtrack
>>1988913Mexico city had a pretty large tram system which actually worked as a sort of interurban system between the city and outlying towns, which nowadays are completely grown together.But I meant because mexican films from the 40s and 50s were shot largely on sound stages and never showed trams or much realistic city life.
>>1892051Based>>1892545Rips off the above film. The speed they can't go below even stays the same (80kph is 50mph)
>>1993808Well, it's about building a road
https://youtu.be/0sH0__SpV88
>>1972050https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zck9hlMl6w&t=88s
My maglev proposal for China.What do you think?
nah too expensive
I legitimately do not understand the preoccupation some people on this board have with chinese maglev, waco to branson maglev, ougadougou to bujumburi maglev, or any other such irrelevant speculations, and it makes me think the "chang" shitposter might be on to something. Literally what is so boring about the NEC, western europe, taiwan, peninsular malaysia, or japan, that makes these other (irrelevant) places so worthy of your attention? Other than the fact that you see them as probable future colonies for the CCB-Tencent corporation's future workforce, but if that were the case you'd be targeting Taiwan too so it just doesn't make any sense
I don't understand the appeal, especially when they already have an impressive HSR network. The benefits of maglev compared against HSR are very minimal. Maglev pretty much exists as gadgetporn.
>>1992504Niche autism is just fun, seethe more
>>1992504Why are you uncontrollably seething?
narrower and higher pressure tire IS faster
>>1959054If you only ride on smooth glass, sure.
>>1959054My favorite feeling is when my tire pressure is dialed in just right and the tire deflection under cornering rebounds so predictably, I love it. It has a weird feeling of being soft and firm at the same time, it's kind of like that feeling of a really good pencil eraser
>>1990337This approximately the same reason why I'm slower with clipless than with pinned flats. It's a confidence issue.
>>1990520or paved roads lol
True. but have you considered that some might people might not like clenching their butthole every time they run over a pebble?
Why are they so (apparently) hated? People seem to dislike the fact that they have to wait for the lights to cycle before they can cross the road. But isn't this literally how they work in other normal parts of the world??Also why are they called this? Because you have to "beg" cars to be able to cross the road? Do Americans really?
>>1993623I am a fan of this method desu
>>1993623Thanks, but I already carry a gun.
>>1993636Do you brandish it at vehicles while crossing the street?
>>1993338>In the old times, when lights were on a timer, 2 minutes green in one direction, 2 minutes red in the other,Yeah. The old days.Now with car sensors, the light timing can be much shorter than that. So the crossing buttons bump up the minimum time in order to let your Aunt Milly to cross without getting slaughtered by a bus.
>Walk up to crossing.>On the opposite side a pedestrian is already waiting. Nice no have to push button.>Watch an entire cycle go by but no pedestrian light.>Look at the guy on the opposite side, try to see if you can spot any indication of realisation on his face.>Sigh, press the button and wait for the light so both of you can cross.Now don't get me started on a left turn dead red when on the bike.
The science is in, rim brakes are and always have been superior to disk brakes in every metric, weight, stopping power, aerodynamics.The ONLY exception, and there are caveats even to that, is on carbon rims, which are gay.Watch the first part to see the sciencey bit about how the industry lied about disks to force consoomers into buying cheaper to manufacture disk brakes for more moneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P4IIWsaS5Itfw when they pushed disk brakes in order to usher in a world where everyone would be proud to pay over the odds to ride bikes made of chinese plastic, including fragile plastic rims that cannot withstand the forces of rim braking without exploding in a catastrophic fashion.
hydro discs make my dick
200lbs, 6'5 here. I could lock my wheels in the rain with 105 tech single pivot caliper brakes in 2001.But today you ride disc. LMAO. And you pay extra for a fork stiff enough to do it. Disc riders are idiot consumers and disc is the reason I stopped buying new bikes. Fuck the bike industry and fuck the consumers
>>1994218more or less this.
>>1994218Literally most people who ride bikes don't even think about it at all. "idiot consumers" it's literally not that serious for 90% of people. Disc brakes offer real advantage for normies and regardless, they don't really care For the few people like you who seriously do care, you can still go get plenty of rim brake shit.
>>1992591No way candle jack browses the transportation boa
pedals with clips or without?
>>1994143and if you aren't retarded, it isn't.
>>1994149>>1994150I obviously mean clipless you faggots.Literally nobody uses the term clipless to describe clipless pedals.Its always clickies, clicks or whatever but i never heard someone refer to it as clipless.
>>1994186At the risk of sounding like one of those schizos who can't defend his point of view without screeching about foreigners, are you by any chance ESL? Because in the US, literally nobody says "clickies" or "clicks" to refer to clipless pedals. This sounds like something you made up.
>>1994186Clickies and clicks are common terms. Obviously their origin is onomatopoeic. And as such those terms are widely understood and an accepted alternative to 'clipless'.Now the thing is: Why again are (((you))) using the term 'clips' 3 times in your post while completely avoiding terms like 'clickies' or 'clipless' only to later try and make it look like people younare insulting were trying to make an effort to read you wrong ?You sure do realise the effort you're putting into constructing your alternative reality only so you can avoid realising a mistake ?
>>1994186>By clips I mean cliplessSo just say clipless faggot I've never heard of clickies in my life
Show me the most degenerate shit you've ever seen
>>1991475Not too bad, could be fun. I'd pick different tires thoSomeone post the Dutch city bike with Zipp wheels
>>1991482would
>>1991475look like a cheap homemade gravel, not to bad. but only 1 brake to do offroad seem hazardous
Ebikes should require registration and an active insurance policy. $15 million in liability insurance per bike, minimum, to cover the average damage they do every time they explode. That doesn't even cover the loss of life but it's a start. Possession of an unregistered ebike or unregistered parts such as batteries should be a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison and being banned from touching another ebike ever again. Second offense is life in prison, you can't prove me wrong.>but muh cost of deliveriesMuh cost of rebuilding the entire block after it was leveled and rebuilding the lives destroyed, cash me outside howbou dah?
England too
Run away!
>>1992111Stop burning hundreds of people to death every year would be a start
yimbys will defend this
>>1917645>>1947839In exchange for Banning E-Bikes, Electric Cars must be banned as well due to having similar issues.
Tell me your favourite loco and I'll rate it/base my opinion of you from it/foam at the mouth about it if it's cool or I haven't seen it yet. Pictured is mine, class 170 (in ScotRail saltire blue livery) they're kinda clunky and old but god do they ever make the best engine noise in the world, you aren't a railfan unless you've heard one thunder out of Glasgow central station. (Can you tell I'm a foamer for this thing?)
>>1993216its like the E60s little brother>>1993084>>1993079>>1992947it's annoying how little scale model stuff Boston in general has. if you're lucky you can find some F40s (that aren't even entirely correct livery wise) and the comet cars. once in every 3 blue moons some HO scale Bi-levels will pop up on ebay. maybe a poor-quality Boeing LRV from the 70s. no left-hand door PCCs either.
>>1984600>>1984605You have bad taste>>1984085Based TexMexposter
>>1988208Whoa that top one looks badass. Is this Russia?
Why would anyone own a car when you can buy this, go 30mph and never pay for fuel or car maintainence again?
>>1993841because beta smol weewee poorfag status signalling issuesalso herd mentality and cage advertising
>going 50 kmh on a shitty bicycledumb /n/igger
>>1993841Because subhumans will steal it
Dumping photos for whoever's interested.
>>1915153Is that caboose still full of heroin addicts needles?
>>1965812lmao what
>>1965805did HSR get coverage in syria in 2015? Didn't they have other things to be worrying about in 2015 syria?
Good thread OP. When I visited for a school trip >>1928055 this spike was the only thing I remembered so thanks for showing off the stuff I forgot.
I took the tour at TVRM awhile back and I felt like the only railfan there. It felt like nothing more than a tourist trap for bored parents to bring their bored kids. I wish they'd get this beauty running.
Why don't you own one with direct front drive?
>>1990112>>1990316cor
>>1988513Nice
>>1990316Add a roll cage
>>1993333Checked and based recumcucks are btfo forever.Shit up a different board with your weird fetish
>>1991181eboomer full circle. It's been obvious from the get go that the boomers plan with the electric motorcycle is only to penetrate protected infrastructure to later slowly expand into it and overtake it too. Fuck motorists and enablers like Canyon.
why are guys like this so racist against anything that isn't old and farty?why don't they just ignore the people flying by them at 40mph having a ton of fun being super fit and not fat and angry like themselves? Why they such haters?
>>1992333I'm a roadie and I haven't owned a cage since 1998, what now
>>1992349>I'm a roadieI can tell
>>1973002Touring triples are from the era before you could have wide range cassettes. The fact that there's only 5 cogs in the cassette in the diagram should tip you off, this is some 70's shit.
>>1974444Ok and? What point are you fucking making with your made up statistics? That just because few people need to weld a bike, that it's not cheap/easy? Because it doesn't matter if only 1 person in the world did it, it doesn't change the fact that a steel bike is cheap to repair
>>1976871not eveybody has money mr richard
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
>>1993903$50 a day sounds brutal, does Amtrak not offer a commuter pass?>>1993912yeah but I don't mind 90 minutes on a train, the real issue is reliability. I'd hate to get stuck in Chicago without a car.
>>1994042What a cute femboy, giwtwm
>>1994024why does everyone expect amtrak to run a profit when they don't own the property around their stations? Do we expect tolls to be profitable too?HK's MTR and Japan's JR are both only profitable because they own the valuable real estate around the stations. if Amtrak could leverage the same they'd be making billions
>>1994046because what is the point of a train that takes 12 times longer to get somewhere than driving does if it is also going to be a money sink on the tax payers?
>>1994046>JRBuilt by the government then privatized>if Amtrak could leverage the sameDoubt they're legally permitted to and even if they could, the chance to buy cheap land remotely close to city centers disappeared decades ago
