Why did the US never invest in High Speed Rail until now?
Well I mean we didn't with the Metroliners being designed in the 60s and the Acela in the 2000s, but I know you mean outside the Northeast to which there are 2 reasons
That is also a pretty big factor
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo goes the old Steam Train
Anonymous asked:
I imagine the debate about updating buildings for centaurs would be very heated. Horses weigh quite a bit more than humans so many buildings would probably have to be significantly updated, especially on upper floors, for their use. It would probably effectively redline neighborhoods as older housing would be unsuitable for centaur occupation.
Yeah and there is also the issue of like how do you raise the low ceiling of the Corridors in City Hall so that the Centuars can even access the city bureaucracy, like these issues would be baked into the fabric of society
Chicago is an Island City
Pro tip when writing, The Audience loves unnecessary relationship melodrama and you can always squeeze a bit more of it out of the characters when you are running low on ideas
Girls who live in the water and climb out when a train passes by to try and capture the train and eat the passengers?
thebirdinator3000 asked:
PLEASE TAKE ME TO A GAY BAR I NEED TO HEAR YOU RAMBLE ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE
Okay so have you ever heard of Braess’s paradox, basically it is the paradox that the more lanes a road has, the more congested it is. I mean I guess you probably do know that because it’s common knowledge to everyone that isn’t a fucking traffic engineer because of how induced demand works. But did you know that it has been found to work in reverse? Following the removal of the Alaskan way viaduct in Seattle, the city found that traffic on the street went down without having any negative effects on ove…
Urban Planning is a great field that acts as a Middle ground between design and policy, it is approachable and has a tangible effect on all of us and how we live. If you care about how are cities develop, it’s a great field to get into. It’s a new field meaning that there is a low barrier to entry, you can enter it from many degrees such as Urban Planning/Studies but also Architecture, Political Science, Sociology and others. So yeah if you want to do something that makes a real change for the better, consider Urban Planning as a field.
Anonymous asked:
Sorry if a silly question but I've never understood, how come trams are seen as better than busses? Isn't it basically just a bus that can't change it's route?
They have higher capacity, and also don’t have a classist association of poverty with them that keeps people from riding
