UK to paint rail tracks white
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“Made this same observation last year but I love it that suburban train operators in Japan can manage to mix both local and express trains, both every 10 minutes all day on a two track line - all they need is the odd passing loop here and there and good timetable adherence.”
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Spanish travellers spend night on trains after thieves steal copper cables
Surely this would be doable on the Beenleigh/GC line with a bit of intentionality and not a horrendous amount of funds?
Japanese systems are the very model of smart use of infrastructure. If we had that skill and approach we could get Brisbane trains to metro like frequencies Brough much of the network.
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First train pulling into the Los Angeles Airport Transit centre as from a couple days ago.
Good things happening in LA transport wise, thanks to the Olympics.
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UK British Royal Train too expensive to operate
Jul 1, 2025
7NEWS Just in 2025The Royal Family’s private train, used for over 150 years, will be decommissioned in two years to save money. The train, once seen as a luxurious and environmentally friendly mode of travel, has become outdated and costly to maintain, with the monarch now preferring to use helicopters for transportation.
44 m deep and the longest escalator in the western world. Washington DC
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As someone who lives in NZ, Auckland has come a long way, although things were far more dire here than any Australian city was (I believe annual rail patronage for the whole city was about 2 million in the early 1990s.
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It was terrible before electrification and the active transport push.
It’s still got a long way to go in many ways.
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Pakistan has trackless trams too. Brisbane on par with Pakistan public transport.
Not quite. Pakistan is using guided buses (albeit bi-articulated). Brisbane has bi-articulated buses. Be interesting to see how they go in the longer term in Pakistan.
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