California to ban internet hunting?

[Urban Ranger]

This is our subway



It's making money hand over fist.

[Spiffor]

Well, when the line splits in tiny splineters in the faraway suburbs, it's pretty normal. You don't want a large train to stop in Littlehousetonshire's station every five minutes, when there's hardly any passenger.

[Az]

HK metro:


Spiffor:

It's not "tiny splinters in faraway suburbs".

If you have shared track of two lonesat a certain place, that means that the entire rest of the lines will suffer. That doesn't have to be a village. It can also be a number of dense suburbs.

For example, look at the tube map. The yellow line is obviously very important. Now what do you get due to the fact that it shares rail with the pink line? - the pink line, that doesn't exactly service the end of the world ( zone 2, or whatever) - suffers rather harshly from having to share the track. I've waited for a train to pass, myself once when I was in London. This is unacceptable in metro, IMHO.

[Agathon]

The London Underground is appallingly inefficient – which is no surprise given that it is British.

I couldn't believe how nice the TTC was when I got here.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
This is our subway



It's making money hand over fist.

Awww, isn't that cute

Here's London's (all of it):

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/lon_con.pdf

It should work better than it does, but it is extensive...

[Az]

Stop bragging. molly already posted one.

Aggie, what's TTC?

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah but that one's crap, it doesn't cover the rail system which is also very extensive...

[Provost Harrison]

The London Underground could do with a lot of work to modernise it, but it would cost many, many billions of pounds to do...

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Az
BUILD SUBWAYS, B*TCH

Ironically, "Roger Rabbit" bests explains the primary source of LA's public transportation problem. Post-WWII, we had the redlines running all over the city. My first word was "streetcar." While the in the movie, it was Cloverleaf which sought to shut down the redline, in real life, it was General Tires...so there'd be more commuting, more cars and hence more tires.

Problem No. 2 is earthquakes. We are second in area for US cities, following only Houston. A spread out population means reduced efficency for public transportation systems.

For the past decade, we've been trying to build back our transportation infrastructure, leading to Problem 3. Politicians redrew the map, making the rail lines follow political dictates rather than demographic dictates.

And of course, there's the ever-present Problem 4. We're one of only three states which requires a super majority to raise taxes. Thus, it is very difficult to raise the funds we need. On the map above, the eastward extension of the goldline and greenline have been put on hold due to lack of funding.

Hong Kong public transportation

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Yeah but that one's crap, it doesn't cover the rail system which is also very extensive...

To continue this point...almost the whole of South East London is missing from this and large swathes of Outer London in the rest of the city. We don't have any underground down this way (Dauphin was saying it is related to the nature of the ground here) but as you can see from my pdf map, there are rail services instead. Although not TFL per se they are still classed as the network...

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Az

BUILD SUBWAYS, B*TCH

They have a subway system in LA. Do they even have a subway system any where in Israel?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Az


entirely inadequate for a metropolitan area with 14 mil people in the met area, and 4 mil people in the core.


Only one of those line is subway.

Well DUH. You're telling this to us people that live here like that some sort of new information we really need to know? But our subway is only 10 years old and is still a work in progress.

It doesn't make sense to put a subway EVERYWHERE, that's just wasting money, and they take longer to build. Those other lines are elevated and take advantage of existing infrastructure.

[Az]

tram apologetics.

trams have plenty of trouble. yours also seem rather slow.

[Dinner]

You don't like mass transite unless it is a subway?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
What's wrong with internet hunting? If the animal is your property, why shouldn't have the right to let people use the internet to shoot at it?

because hunting in that way is unsportsmanlike.

If you are going to kill an animal, I expect you to eat it.