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The Fushun Electric Railway - China's First Electric Railway
China is not a country well-known for legacy suburban railways. Although lately several dozen new-build lines have appeared, and several mai...
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For decades, China's only electrified suburban railway was a 300km-system in Fushun, an industrial city of a little over a million in Liaoning province. I wrote a little about it: kaptrice.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
it turns out that on 31 August, 1934 there was an incident here in which 110 people were killed or injured when the anti-Manchoukuo resistance blew up a Seoul-bound passenger train
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
it turns out that on 31 August, 1934 there was an incident here in which 110 people were killed or injured when the anti-Manchoukuo resistance blew up a Seoul-bound passenger train
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For decades, China's only electrified suburban railway was a 300km-system in Fushun, an industrial city of a little over a million in Liaoning province. I wrote a little about it: kaptrice.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Fushun Electric Railway - China's First Electric Railway
China is not a country well-known for legacy suburban railways. Although lately several dozen new-build lines have appeared, and several mai...
kaptrice.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For decades, China's only electrified suburban railway was a 300km-system in Fushun, an industrial city of a little over a million in Liaoning province. I wrote a little about it: kaptrice.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Metrolinx publishing a meaningfully specific set of goals and the infrastructure work required to achieve it for GO Expansion? Am I dreaming?
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Metrolinx publishing a meaningfully specific set of goals and the infrastructure work required to achieve it for GO Expansion? Am I dreaming?
I have a feeling this suffers heavily from the data completeness problems encountered by European-compiled indices lol
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I have a feeling this suffers heavily from the data completeness problems encountered by European-compiled indices lol
The advance into the modern metropolitan is weird, you have Braudel saying in the 70s that the whole world will one day look like the USA or Japan. Two very physically different routes into modern metropolitan structures, and they both really are so different from any traditional form.
It's kind of funny because Will stancil is normally a big believer in the idea that ideas not material conditions shape history and like one of the best examples of this is how 1950s elites were convinced cars were The Future™ and completely destroyed American urbanism with negligible public debate
I mean it's not this simple but a handful of policy elites really did drastically reengineer our urban fabric in ways that were popular in the immediate term and created massive social dysfunction beyond that.
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The advance into the modern metropolitan is weird, you have Braudel saying in the 70s that the whole world will one day look like the USA or Japan. Two very physically different routes into modern metropolitan structures, and they both really are so different from any traditional form.
For decades, China's only electrified suburban railway was a 300km-system in Fushun, an industrial city of a little over a million in Liaoning province. I wrote a little about it: kaptrice.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Fushun Electric Railway - China's First Electric Railway
China is not a country well-known for legacy suburban railways. Although lately several dozen new-build lines have appeared, and several mai...
kaptrice.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For decades, China's only electrified suburban railway was a 300km-system in Fushun, an industrial city of a little over a million in Liaoning province. I wrote a little about it: kaptrice.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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Voici une carte interactive fascinante partagée cette semaine à Moteur de recherche par notre collaboratrice Annie Levasseur, prof-chercheure à @etsmtl.bsky.social: les échanges et l'intensité carbone des réseaux électriques en temps réel. app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Voici une carte interactive fascinante partagée cette semaine à Moteur de recherche par notre collaboratrice Annie Levasseur, prof-chercheure à @etsmtl.bsky.social: les échanges et l'intensité carbone des réseaux électriques en temps réel. app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...
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It's impressive how contemporary projects' budgeting practices in Canada are made of very thin actual analytical estimates based on quantities and unit prices on top of which there is an entire enormous castle of random percentages of percentages of percentages which are suspiciously multiples of 5.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It's impressive how contemporary projects' budgeting practices in Canada are made of very thin actual analytical estimates based on quantities and unit prices on top of which there is an entire enormous castle of random percentages of percentages of percentages which are suspiciously multiples of 5.
i would like you all to know more about this world
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
i would like you all to know more about this world
apta ridership in 2-3 weeks I can't wait!
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
apta ridership in 2-3 weeks I can't wait!
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back of the envelope they are going to be paying $25 in debt service per swipe at the new stations
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
back of the envelope they are going to be paying $25 in debt service per swipe at the new stations
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The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.
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It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
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"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves.
April 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves.
I have to wonder how these cars all found their way to Fushun and not the broader China Railway after the civil war.
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I have to wonder how these cars all found their way to Fushun and not the broader China Railway after the civil war.
i want to read this book so bad. actually, i want to read it and write about it in english. china's only(?) 20th century electric urban commuter railway is such an oddball
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
i want to read this book so bad. actually, i want to read it and write about it in english. china's only(?) 20th century electric urban commuter railway is such an oddball
Finally, a sense of scale of the annoyingly long tunnel. I get why the Spadina Subway station was supposed to be called Lowther
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Finally, a sense of scale of the annoyingly long tunnel. I get why the Spadina Subway station was supposed to be called Lowther
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Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
The Bullet Train project found a strong backer in Shima Yasujiro, chairman of the Railway Trunk Line Investigatory Committee of the Showa 10s. He was father of Shima Hideo, who's more famous as the father of mainline EMUs and of the Shinkansen trains.
TIL in this great Substack article that earliest plans for Shinkansen was as early as 1939, and the Imperial Government was buying up land for Tokaido during WWII. Then-Japanese Government Railways bought ROW land dirt cheap thanks to the US bombings jrurbanenetwork.substack.com/p/shinkansen...
Shinkansen... We also need. 新幹綫~ 我們也要有。
China and Japan operate an ever complex and frequent HSR system. The environment surrounding the births of their systems can be similar and different at the same time.
jrurbanenetwork.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The Bullet Train project found a strong backer in Shima Yasujiro, chairman of the Railway Trunk Line Investigatory Committee of the Showa 10s. He was father of Shima Hideo, who's more famous as the father of mainline EMUs and of the Shinkansen trains.
wondering whether this was with an operator inside like on the TTC side or on the CTSM side in UTO yard ops
Something had to give for that home run. A price had to be paid to the civic gods.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
Eglinton Crosstown LRT testing stopped — source says two trains collided
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT had begun its final round of testing on Oct. 7, but two trains collided in the Mount Dennis train yard on Thursday, leading to a pause in the test, according to a source.
www.thestar.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
wondering whether this was with an operator inside like on the TTC side or on the CTSM side in UTO yard ops
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The American centrist punditocracy has decided that what the US transit industry needs are endless lectures about the importance of security.
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit
People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The American centrist punditocracy has decided that what the US transit industry needs are endless lectures about the importance of security.
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
These writers misunderstand the problem, and are making things worse. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Certain political figures are drawn like racist caricatures seemingly at random. Prince Konoe? Kishi? Chiang? yes. Matsuoka? Xie Wendong (a northeastern bandit turned KMT general)? no
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Certain political figures are drawn like racist caricatures seemingly at random. Prince Konoe? Kishi? Chiang? yes. Matsuoka? Xie Wendong (a northeastern bandit turned KMT general)? no
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This is an opportunity for Canada to unburden itself from the gigantic American automobile trend. Half of the current surge in traffic congestion is driven by unreasonable vehicle size.
October 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is an opportunity for Canada to unburden itself from the gigantic American automobile trend. Half of the current surge in traffic congestion is driven by unreasonable vehicle size.
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The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.
UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.
New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>
New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>
October 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.