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sorry, but as someone that has lived in Japan for 6 years, heavy rail is the fucking master race.

>>1056265
>If I was designing a large city with a high population density, instead of heavy rail I'd use Bus Rapid Transit

Well let us all be thankful that you are not designing large cities.

>>1056268
Heavy rail is already deficient in providing a competitive alternative to Bus Rapid Transit in terms of pphpd, maintenance and initial investment, but when automated driving comes around it will also smoke heavy rail in the operating cost department.

If a city is planned for BRT (fair assumption, most modern cities were designed with some kind of rail in mind) it can move 2 times the passengers for 1/10 the infrastructure cost and pay for itself.

Also it can have virtually no wait times between vehicles, no pesky humongous stations that take you 5 minutes to travel from one end to the other, and cities can be designed so no one lives more than 1 minute walking distance between stops.

For a 30 minute commute don't bother with clipless. Unless your commute has plenty of off road sections or is 90% climbing.

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>>1055531
LNER fan?

>>1055532
My favourite is the Dominion of South Africa

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Okay. So next year I'm planning a very serious tour, from NW Arkansas, to the Pacific Northwest via the Transamerica trail, and I'm looking at touring bikes.

Right now I'm on this boring, beginner-tier Giant Escape flat-bar performance hybrid and looking into trading up to a proper touring bike.

My gears on the Escape are 28, 38, 48 cranks, and an 11-32 cassette. I'm currently looking at gear ranges on the popular touring bikes out there. The Kona Sutra's lower gear extremes are the exact same as mine - 28 in front, 32 in rear.

Does this mean that I would get the exact same amount of resistance on the same hill in either bike (at least in the extreme, which yes I know about avoiding cross-chaining)?

When you boil them down to the number of teeth, is this a standard size that allows comparison to the exact amount of resistance/travel?

I'm one of those noobs that know enough to sound like I know what I'm talking about to an outsider looking in, but don't really know what I'm talking about.

Also wondering about STIs vs. bar-end shifters. Would it be possible to switch them out for when I'm not out touring, would STIs work with the friction shift-capable read derailleur or would that also have to be replaced with a fully index-designed component?

>>1054166
If the tires are the same size, both in diameter and width, then technically yes. However your position on the bike will also affect how much resistance it feels like you are pedaling against

>>1053696
No. You have to build a tunnel for every individual route you want or otherwise have very indirect routes. That's not a problem for planes.

>>1053701

And planes can land where ever the pilot pleases? Airports connects two points, just like a tunnel would.

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>>1053722
Yes, digging hundreds of miles of underground vacuum sealed tunnels is a comparable feat to putting down a couple miles of pavement and installing some radio equipment.

>>1052529
No one.

As you can clearly see two policemen are present and no tickets were issued therefore we can assume that no one was in the wrong.

>>1052529
faggot OP for creating this fucking thread

>>1052529
society

I would make sure to keep lines with Erschließungsfunktion (no idea how to translate that) and Verbindungsfunktion separate.
A line either mostly connects places or it enables people to access the public transport system. Mixing those two functions usually ends up being cheaper, but you have an inferior system.

No idea, if Lower Saxony employs the ITF-concept for its railway system, but maybe it would be worthwhile to check, if the train station could serve as an ITF-node.

>>1049743
I don't think it does. The train station is served by the Hannover S-Bahn and it serves as the central interchange station for all local bus lines. The timetable is awful. All departures are spread out evenly across the course of half an hour or more. It would make sense to give people just enough time to change between trains and different bus lines and then have them all depart at roughly the same time.
I tried to make outbound lines connecting to neighboring towns and villages, going a straight and quick route to and from the station. Many of them end up at other train stations or bus interchanges. Then there's neighborhood bus lines (orange, bright yellow and dark blue) with a large amount of coverage of the town center. I haven't heared of the ITF concept under that name before, but it seems I attempted something very similar to that.

Erschließungsfunktion might be translated as coverage function and Verbindungsfunktion as connection/connective function.

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The bigger picture.

Do you know about - /eternal skateboarding general/

>>>/asp/2259322

>>1051846
>What does /n/ use for shredding?
a bike

>>1051955
/asp/ is pretty much just pro wrestling now. A skateboard is transportation.

That only benefits the Acela corridor. The rest of us get it in the shorts, as per usual.

Also - "fund" transit and the money will likely go to overpaid and lazy-assed SEIU or AFSCME represented government employees and ex-employees anyway. Maybe you're one of those, and if so, fuck you.

>>1057073
I literally cannot find the thread of logic in this post, apart from the generic anti-union sentiment in the second part. What does the NEC in particular have to do with it? It's the only part of Amtrak's network that has a farebox recovery in excess of 100%, so changes in federal funding have much less impact than every other route.

>>1057075
Assuming we're discussing public-owned entities - transit and rail funding disproportionately benefits those that live in metropolitan areas, who tend to use public transportation. The Acela corridor is a perfect example. Amtrak and metro transit systems lose more money than they take in through fares. What do people in fly-over country get out of the deal? Does that USW or UAW employee in rural Michigan or Wisconsin benefit, and if not, why should they subsidize hipsters in Ann Arbor or Madison?

State and local politicians sometimes funnel money away from infrastructure to pay for pension funds, which are crumbling (ex. the CalPERS Ponzi scheme). Yet they keep demanding more federal funding for infrastructure to compensate for their irresponsibility (in catering to the demands of AFSCME & SEIU members).

At some point you have to ask - if the recipients of funding aren't good stewards of the money (which they haven't been), why does it make sense to continue the funding?

Nice find dude.
There is a guy around where I live that has this jacket that the back isn't long enough to hit the rear rack, but the front actually goes into his handlebars. It acts like a tent with face hole and never seems to give him greif looking round. Ever seen something like that for sale?

>>1056819
I was born in the 1970s and those kinds of jackets were very common for casualwear when I was growing up. I had one where the "pocket" it got stuffed into was the shape and color of a banana, so it looked like you were carrying around a banana. More pleb people had square shaped collapsible ponchos.

It amuses me that "progress" has gotten us to a point where nobody knows what these are and deep linking strategies are required to even be aware of them.

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>>1056819
>doesn't come in yellow
It's shit.

you should use a ulock instead of a chain+padlock.

kyptonite evolution mini-7 for budget, or kyptonite forgetaboutit new york lock for $$$

>>1056809
Why?

>>1056812
Chains are racist and oppressive.

Yes you can.

No it wouldn't.

you can put an LS in anything. I have an LS cat.

>>1056679
Did someone get kicked off /o/ for LSposting?

>>1056344
Try Mr Clean Magic Eraser (buy generic version on ebay)

Or very fine steel wool

If that doesn't work get a new fender. Plastic is chemically similar to lots of oils so they will bond to it and make permanent stains

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Stop buying sks

>>1056346
Thanks, I'll try with steel wool.
>>1056387
Why?

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BMX park got me like..

>>1056673
Where can you actually buy one of these bikes? What are they called?

>>1056676
Why I dont ride bmx

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Werd.
That's not even taking into account the amount of fatigue caused accidents or simply time needed/wasted to adjust everyone to the artificial rhythm. Energy savings have been proven to be negligible. Scrap this.

for me it's perfect
>morning commute is sunny
>evening commute is sunny

>tfw when I can just commute in shorts and tshirt

How fucking early do you leave for work.