The DUP are one party that have a cheek to accuse anyone else of lacking political maturity after they were told not to vote for Brexit and then voted for it, against their own interests.
Also, Sammy says 16 year olds will focus on one issue when they go to vote. A DUP MP said that with a straight face, every election is about the union for them.
BelfastTelegraph.co.uk: ‘Youngsters are not really mature enough’: DUP MP says party won’t back move to lower voting age
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Caleb James DeLisle
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Railroad tracks are obscenely expensive to build/maintain, and having them doesn't absolve you of the need to have roads, so you have to pay twice.
Rail has its place when you need to move bulk goods and you don't have the benefit of water access, but for that you don't need to go very fast and you can run over garbage tracks. That said, trucking STILL manages to compete with rail in places where rail should be absolutely safe.
IMO the most rational way to improve transportation in the US is to just make flying less of a hassle. If the carbon emissions of aircraft really bothers you, just plant some trees. I highly doubt that any carbon is ever saved by doing something less cost-efficiently anyway...
Robert von Oliva
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd I am not 100% sure, but I think that LGV network is, at least in maintenance etc., financed by the operator fees only. And TGV services costs are 100% covered by the fare, I think it even brings profit. So for the time being, it's actually economical too, just state owned (not ideal, but taxpayer is fine).
Plus we're talking about the US, where the opposite is really true 😛
Caleb James DeLisle
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd Well, yeah, but you spent a shit tonne of money for motorways and the results are… well, not the best really. And frankly, the way American cities are built is by any means financially viable for the taxpayer. High sprawl levels mean that the infrastructure is used inefficiently – you still need to get the pipes, roads etc., but they are used for smaller number of businesses per length measure etc. If the same pipe and the same road could handle a 4-storey apartment building with a shop in the ground level, if you just use it for a single-story building with a parking lot, the tax burden needs to be much higher. And with less sprawled city, any public (public as in used by many people at once, it doesn't really have to be state-owned, even if it's often is, and it doesn't have to be mostly funded by the taxpayer – actually, there is a correlation with the density and PT self-financing and if you add some real estate portfolio of the transport company (a model very popular e.g. in Japan or HK or Far Eastern Asia as a whole) it can be nicely profitable) transport will be used more often.
It's BTW basically what the whole Strong Towns (strongtowns.org/) initiative is all about.
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in reply to Robert von Oliva • • •> you
I live in France 😀
> the way American cities are built is by any means financially viable for the taxpayer
Yup
> transport will be used more often
Yup, though America also has another problem which prevents people from using public transport but its forbidden to talk about that.
> BTW basically what the whole Strong Towns
Yup, familiar with this, and I like it.
Though, America also has another problem which prevents people from living in quaint little dense communities, but its forbidden to talk about that...
Robert von Oliva
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in reply to Robert von Oliva • • •Wolf480pl
in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •really?
I thought this was about working for a French company and having trouble understanding when the French try to speak English
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Wolf480pl
in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •Yeah but that's like, real life lore.
Not fedi lore.
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