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JR Urbane Network

4 months

Today I went to Guangzhou's newest major railway station Guangzhou Baiyun. An absolute UNIT of a station, a cathedral to train travel. The station opened yesterday but I had family commitments that day. A 🧵 on my experiences going 24 hours after opening.

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1 year

You literally can just build this for the same price and not be stuck for an hour in a queue of Tesla firetraps underground.

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1 year

LA traffic is the worst. I can’t imagine how much of life is wasted in a car in LA. Can’t wait for @boringcompany @elonmusk to get rid of this problem.

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Family member broke their phone in Nepal so when we arrived back in Hong Kong in the morning we took the metro to the world's largest electronics market, Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen, in hope of getting it fixed. Because if it's electronics, Huaqiangbei will have it. 🧵of my trip.

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North Americans do be microdosing walkable urbanism around this time of year.

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Tourists flock to temporary Christmas Markets that mirror an urbanism that’s a novelty in North America

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Heading to Zhangjiajie W Railway Station a few days ago. I find a taxi and while driving the driver asks me when my train is. I tell him and he says: "oh you're early, can I change my taxi's battery? it's on the way, takes 10 mins?" I said sure... 🧵On my Chinese EV adventure.

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Imagine being able to be in a clean spacious vehicle flying through a network of tunnels with stops all over the city. This isn't some BS peddled by some techbro. It's called a metro and it exists in cities that are worth giving a damn about.

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1 year

Imagine being able to take a Tesla underground through a tunnel with stops at the airport, hotels and downtown. This isn’t something from some futuristic sci-fi movie. It’s the Vegas Loop, and it could become a reality in Las Vegas. Ride along with us:

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Over 100 years ago the Japanese came over to Los Angeles and were in awe at its vast private electric rail network. They studied it and developed their own vast private railway networks back in Japan. Today N Americans come to Japan and awe at Japan's vast private rail network.

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@RobD2020 @maxdubler LA wasn’t built around rail so it will never be economical to build rail. It will always be a money losing system that drains society of resources. I’m referring to political decisions related to infrastructure projects (not regulations) like “we are going to buy all American”…

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When I arrived at Fenghuang (Via HSR of course) I was confronted with an ad that blew my mind. Fenghuang, a pretty obscure Chinese town, has a Maglev that connects it's center with its HSR station. So being the railway connoisseur I am, I had to take it. A🧵of my experience.

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JR Urbane Network

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1 year

I am so poor and irrelevant that I am forced to use all this damn public transportation to get home. Halp!

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1 year

This pic is shared a lot on Reddit. It's in Hangzhou and called 丽晶国际 by New World, a HK developer. If you look closely (2nd pic) you will see what is a cool trend in China, EVERY unit is 2 floors high with an internal staircase. A little 🧵 (1/5)

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1 month

So thanks for reading this thread that I typed on my family member's now functional phone. For more electronic urbanism like, share and subscribe. Insert the IC on that PCB to ensure you get future notifications from me.

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Just came across this article and went down a bit of a rabbit hole. Chinese nuclear industry insiders are eyeing approvals for 6-10 new reactors this year. China is building new nuclear plants at a faster rate than any other country. Rabbit hole thread.

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The market is a cluster of several muiltfloor commercial buildings all connected by a network of underground malls and metros. You can buy anything here computer parts, phones drones etc. The area is also a global hub for electronics parts wholesaling and import/export logistics.

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6 months

My politics is whatever this is.

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6 months

350km/h+350km/h. No train stopped for me.😭

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4 months

A thread on inland shipping. Freight transport is something that is not talked about alot in transport twitter, inland waterway freight even less. However twitter is ignoring one of the most sustainable forms of transport. Pics not mine unless otherwise stated (below is China).

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If inland population concentration was so important, how come Germany became a manufacturing powerhouse despite its inland population concentration?

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The most fun I have is looking at the stores that are fronts for factories where you can sit down look at specialized type of IC, transistors, server fan, capacitor, ethernet cable etc and place an order of 1,000 of them.

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There are stores that are fronts for factories that just specialize in selling those ubiquitous "holographic authenticity" "Made in China", "QC Pass" stickers you see on all consumer electronics.

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Chongqing is so incredibly based as a city, it's called the 3D Magic Mountain City for a reason. Also having the world's largest and busiest monorail system is like 30% of it. (Not my pics. I have but I'm away from home)

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what's stopping your city looking like this?

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The fast turnaround of phone repair is achieved because of the centralization of electronics sellers, knowledge and connections. There are 100s of models of phones but also 100s of stalls specializing on every part/component imaginable here.

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I wait in the station to enjoy China's other world class electric transport system. Thanks for reading this thread. For more transport and urbanism threads like share and subscribe. Slam the bell for future notifications.

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He was talking to us like a vet discharging a patient ending with " leave the rubber bands [keeping the phone together] on for at least 2 hours, don't be too rough with it today."

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Anything electronic can be found here，from consumer and industrial products to obscure electronics parts.

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Freight forwarding companies are common here too, as if you ordered some consumer electronics or Arduino board off AliExpress it most likely came from here.

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I went to Caojiawan Station (yes that "ghost" one) in Chongqing and was not greeted by an empty station with barren fields overgrown with weeds but beginnings of dense mixed-use Chinese suburbia. (Older pic not mine) A 🧵of my visit. (1)

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9 months

The solution is simple, and world class cities have already solved it.

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9 months

Traffic is the horrible in Los Angeles. Almost feels like half your life your in a car just getting from one place to the next. Can’t wait for the @boringcompany to solve this issue.

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When this fails, please consider the following for use in the tunnels:

Hayden Clarkin

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9 months

The Las Vegas Council unanimously approved the Boring Company's plan to build 68 miles of Tesla's tunnel (unproven technology) in 15.5 minutes. In the same meeting, they spent 52 minutes discussing whether a homeowner should be allowed to build a vestibule...

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We head off, it was actually on the way and 5 min later we arrive at a lot with two containers on it. Inside each container is a battery swapping station. We wait in line and the taxi in front gets lifted, its battery underneath automatically removed.

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I thank him and we have coffee to celebrate (and not be rough with the phone), then take metro to a Chaoshan Hot Pot place for dinner and head back to HK.

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He called his friend who runs a store that specializes in phone screen parts on the other side of the market to check and pick up the part. He confirms it will work and says he can replace phone display unit in 2 hrs. I go and eat 炸醬面, browse the market's plethora of wares.

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The 師傅 WeChated me to come back to pick up the fixed phone. He even took us to a neighbouring stall who he knows is better with phone speaker and mic replacements to double check if the phone was put back together properly.

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Walking around old Wuhan reminded me of old Toronto (particularly the areas of St. Lawrence today and Entertainment District/Yonge and Wellesley during the 90s). Made me think about my time in Toronto. Except...

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I talk a lot about external elevator retro fits around here. Below is how you do it.

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Install elevators in old apartment buildings. Low-rise apartment buildings in China usually don't have elevators. With more and more elderly people, elevators become necessary.

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10 months

What is even light rail at this point?

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10 months

🏄‍♀️ 🚊 Honolulu light rail opens today

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My family member's broken phone is an obscure export variant of a Chinese brand. However after some discussion and online research with the phone repair 師傅 he determined that a LCD panel from a local phone model is compatible.

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So for the phone situation we found a building that is housing hundreds of phone repair stalls with 師傅s working way replacing batteries，volume rockers and charging ports.

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2 years

Certified "meanwhile in China" moment:

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Xujiapeng in the Wuhan Metro is a sprawling station connecting 3 metro lines so I had to go and explore it after my relatives got tired and returned to the hotel. A little picture🧵.

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Then the container automatically aligns and swaps in a new battery. The car is lowered and awaits payment to be released.

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1 year

How about we just get as many people to take public transit as realistically possible.

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Seems bad: "With a mass global takeup of autonomous vehicles, the powerful onboard computers needed to run them could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centres in operation today... equivalent to the entire output of Argentina."

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So how does payment and rates work? Payment is calculated by the difference in charge in the swapped batteries with an estimated range. Most of the time batteries still have some range on them when swapped out.

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2 years

A station design optimization I noticed on the Busan Metro is the escalators are single stream going down into the platforms but dual stream going up. As ppl arrive at the station in a constant semi random interval while ppl leave the station in a wave as they alight each train.

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...he does need to swap twice. He believes this is a superior model at least for the taxi industry. Yes the battery is smaller but swapping only takes 10 mins. If he plugged in (which he also could), the fleet and the company will have to manage a 1 hr charging "dead time"...

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7 months

Laughs in Hong Kong.

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1 year

Amtrak really upping their game with the new Siemens trains. It actually looks like an intercity or limited express train from Europe or East Asia. However, the Canadian variant has a better front design and livery. #sorrynotsorry

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During the swap out process the taxi's licence plate is scanned. In addition during the process of taking out the old battery it is IDed and checked for how much range it still has. When the new battery is swapped in it is also IDed and checked for how much range it has.

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5 months

The African country of Tanzania has electric mainline intercity rail.

Mwango Capital

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Tanzania Railways Corporation [ @tzrailways ] has conducted a test run for an electric train between Dar es Salaam and Morogoro [~200km apart]. [Video via @MsigwaGerson who is the Govt Spokesperson of Tanzania ]

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Classic Ochanomizu shot.

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The taxi driver pays the difference. We left the taxi so he could drive it in for a swap. When he parked his taxi and came back to us I asked him a bunch of questions. Our driver told me the rate right now is 28 RMB per 100km of range. I asked him what the typical range of a...

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Last week I rode the Changsha Maglev Express a medium speed maglev that connects Changsha's airport and main HSR station. A thread of my thoughts and experiences.

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Changsha embraces the maisonette as an apartment type. Each flat spans multiple floors and ranges from 2,000 to over 4,000 sq ft and gets a large two story balcony (the lobes) which some owners enclose to create a two story atrium/sunroom.

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2 years

When you run high capacity metro/regional trains services on an interurban infrastructure.

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1 year

Meanwhile in a civilized advanced society... (Randen in Kyoto pic not mine)

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The worst cherry blossom traffic I have ever seen!!! They made Ohio Drive one way eastbound this year and I’m thinking they need to rethink that. Also they had plans to close East Basin Drive near the Jefferson Memorial but it is open.

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My politics is whatever this is:

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The high-speed rail line connecting Nanjing and Beijing is the busiest high-speed rail line in China. This is Xuzhou East Station, and the train passes through without stopping, One by one.

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Seoul Metro announced a pilot where seats are removed in select cars on Line 4 and Line 7. creating the fabled "cattle cars" found in late 90s era Japan. When @LongBranchMike sent me this news I had mixed feelings. A🧵with a slight digression on the Seoul Metro.⬇️⬇️

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...I told him I saw a NIO equivalent in Chongqing for private cars and swapping battery tech is basically non-existent overseas. He turned to me and said "Really? Hmm...". I told him that overseas they tend to rely on quick charging if they are in a hurry....

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...fully charged battery for these EV taxis and he said just over 200km. I ask him if that's enough to use he says on a shift in a normal day it's just enough but you do need to swap once a day as of course you don't start full everytime. Busy days and starting close to empty...

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Macau shows you what 90,000 to 120,000 people per sq km of urban density looks like.

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.... We arrive at Zhangjiajie West HSR station. The trip was 25 RMB (this is a discount as the leg to the battery swapping station on the way was unpaid he turned off the meter).

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.... "But isn't that hard on the battery?" He said. "Ya basically" I replied. The battery was swapped on our taxi and he scanned a QR code on the side of one of the containers to pay. He showed me the swap costed him 45 RMB....

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... Maybe 2-3 hours if it was a bigger non-removable battery. Also the batteries and swapping stations are owned by another company offered as a service to the taxi company so if any issues happen he said the company just puts in a complaint to the battery company...

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Cathedrals of train travel.

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Wuhan high-speed railway station in the rush hour. There are 416 high-speed trains every day.

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Last month, the west section of Chongqing Metro Line 18 opened. A 29km long 19 station section that using 6 car Type As trains tho platforms are designed for 7 car trains. The line is mostly underground and costs 170 million INT$/km to build. A little🧵on this interesting line.

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1 year

What +50,000 people per hour per direction of capacity looks like.

urban transit guido

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@_dmoser The fuck 50,000 pphpd? How big and how often are these trains…

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3 months

I guess this is the future YIMBYs want.

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Always blew my mind how much rail infra New York just... got rid of.

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Bring her back

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Shanghai Metro's proposed next round of metro planning. Theme is: express metro network. But express more in the style of Hangzhou (120kph ops 3-4 km stop spacings) and not Guangzhou (160kph 4-7km stop spacings). 280km of new metro is proposed. A lil'🧵

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We get in the taxi and head to the railway station. He asked me where I am from. "Hong Kong" I replied. "Oh" he said "I thought you sounded like Guangdong people! When you speak Cantonese with your family [in the back] I could not understand at first and thought it was a ...

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...foreign language but then listening closer I could understand half of what's going on. I heard in the news alot of Hong Kongers this year are coming over to Shenzhen to shop." I replied "Ya Shenzhen is fun and cheap" "HK is expensive." He mused. "Yes." I stated.

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The Australians:

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@JRUrbaneNetwork asian bros calling a high capacity heavy metro system a LRT while europeans be calling a BRT a metro

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I guess this is the future YIMBYs want.

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1 year

The importance of cross platfrom interchange (or lack thereof) visualized. See the thread below explaining what is happening here. Video by 地铁客流及运输研究阿牛 (1/12)

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Meanwhile, in the Orient.

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U.S. and Canadian officials have announced a joint task force to work on zero-emission locomotives.

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The 280 km long Shanghai–Nanjing Riverside HSR opened this week. Designed for 350 kph, it is the third HSR line between the Shanghai-Nanjing corridor with a population of over 60 million people.

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We stop at a red light, he opens the 12306 railway ticketing app on his phone on the stand. "You can look for your train. 2 years ago a new HSL opened to Zhangjiajie there are high speed trains heading everywhere Changsha, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong."....

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Japan does not know how to do BRT.

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...He said while flipping through the list of high speed railway departures from Zhangjiajie W station. "It really helped bring people over here even tho we have an airport." ....

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Appreciate Nepalese urbanism.

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Last month, Zhengzhou Metro opened the "Zhengxu Line" a 67km long "metro line" that connects Zhengzhou and Xuchang, a city over 80km away from Zhengzhou. (long navy blue line heading south) A little🧵on this bizarre line. Map by 地球铁EarthMetro.

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The MTR's escalators are some of the world's fastest, operating with a speed of 0.8 meters per second with extra long landings to achieve high passenger throughput. The typical escalator speed is around 0.3-0.5 meters per second.

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I asked someone from China once what they think of Sydney. “It’s nice. Slower than China, though”. I never fully understood that until now. Everything in Hong Kong is so fast. The escalators are fast, people get onto metros fast, everyone walks so fast. Everything is fast!

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I'll be blunt, this is the reason the perception of railfans among the Japanese mainstream public has fallen off a cliff in the past few years.

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摂津市の治安終わり散らかしてた

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Interesting as Japan (and S Korea until recently) is a outlier on this. Japan formerly had open gangways on many trains (see below the Chiyoda 6000 series in the 1970s) until the Daegu subway fire in 2003, which hugely impacted fire readiness in metro systems across E Asia. A🧵

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@RM_Transit Open gangways are now MANDATED in Italy exactly because of fire safety reasons, because they are easier to evacuate if some doors are malfunctioning.

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The world's fastest metro service, which reaches 160km/h, Guangzhou metro Line 18.

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What is even LRT?

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LRT Jabodebek & langit Jakarta. 👌🏻

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The Tokyo æsthetic.

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This is not a bug but a cool feature. I critically support roulette forced luxury automated transport depot tours.

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Last month a flurry of metro lines opened in Istanbul, totalling almost 50km. In 15 years, the Istanbul metro grew from a 2 line 47km long system (with a line wrongly branded as LRT *ahem M1) to a system of over 240km. 100s of km of new metro is still U/C. A🧵of the openings.

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@r_zthai @gspeng 225 RMB parts+labour.

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So apparently you can buy a TBM on Alibaba, probably due to the volume of subway construction in China. Here is a model used to construct Beijing Subway Line 19 Phase I.

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1 year

It's called a CRH2-E in China. Pics not mine.

rust belt city enjoyer

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1 year

I know high speed trains over long distances aren't viable, but I wonder how popular some sort of capsule hotel style long distance high speed sleeper train would perform? Packing a bi-level high speed train full of these would be transformative for long-distance travel I think.

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@JRUrbaneNetwork

1 year

A lot of units have double-height loft high ceilings. Units range from 800 sq ft to over 2000 sq ft. It is called the largest single residential building in China. (2/5)

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@JRUrbaneNetwork

4 months

NYC Subway has reached the early 2000s Seoul Metro arc. Not my pic.

Yonah Freemark

@yfreemark

4 months

The NYC Subway has installed new platform barriers at a station. They’re not exactly world class

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

1 year

The building is over 200m tall, some residential units also have been converted into small offices or live/work spaces. It has a mall on the lower floors and is connected to two Hangzhou Metro lines. What more can you want! (5/5)

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

1 year

@ESvartz How can you build 20 parallel Tesla tunnels for the same price as a high-capacity East Asian Metro. Those Tesla tunnels choke once they hit anywhere close to 4,000 passengers an hour per direction. East Asian metro lines can move over 80,000 passengers an hour per direction.

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

2 years

(1) Shows a picture of Beijing Xi'erqi Station on Line 13. Fails to mention, according to statistics, that section of Line 13 in the pic moves 41,000 people per hour in the SB direction during the AM Peak. Can the car hole move 10,000 Teslas an hour?

Forstall

@forstall_

2 years

@alanthefisher JUST BUILD SUBWAYS BRO I SWEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE BILLION DOLLAR SUBWAY, I SWEAR

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

4 months

Poor economic choices never looked so good.

Casey Handmer, PhD

@CJHandmer

5 months

If trains were first invented today, they would never be built. No rail-less nations are building rail networks. No, China doesn't count because they're the Paragon of poor economic choices.

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

3 months

Macau is just Las Vegas but with actual public transit, urbanism and culture.

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

1 year

THE 👏 SOLUTION 👏 IS 👏 MASS 👏 TRANSIT 👏 RAILWAY 👏 NOT 👏 ELECTRIC 👏 CAR.

Stephen Wickens 🇺🇦 🇨🇦

@StephenWickens1

1 year

@alcontent416 I can't believe this story is more than 15 years old, but then there's a case to be made that North America is decades behind Norway on several things.

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

29 days

When we arrive close to Fenghuang Ancient Town the maglev takes a sweeping elevated curve that allows you to see the town hugging along the river.

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

1 year

My politics is whatever this is.

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

7 months

The Yongjin Railway, China's second electric traction double-stack container railway has started testing with a pair of push-pull HXD1B electric locomotives (7200kW or 9655 horsepower each) and a consist of double-stack high cube shipping containers in wellcars. Video by SS-287.

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