I think the ITU E.123 predates HTML by some years…

To be honest you could be tracked by your WiFi usage too.

Hey, the fruits of the development are free. They are literally giving it for free, albeit sans hardware or VPS.

Also, it’s worth pointing out that some other parties may have potential of embracing fascism, but if their current stance on right extremism is a negative one and their policies and rhetoric aren’t even verging on the extremes, they probably should just be corrected for the obvious bad things and not labeled as “right extremists”. Even though some of the candidates could be called such based on things they’ve said.

Suhteellisella vaalitavalla kun vaalit käydään, niin kannattaa myös muistaa, että ääni menee listalle tai puolueelle, vaikka äänestyslippuun laitetaankin ehdokkaan numero. Yksittäinen ehdokas saattaa lupailla asioita, joita ei puolueen vaaliohjelmassa ja/tai puolueohjelmassa ole. Kannattaa siksikin tutustua puolueohjelmaan ja puolueen muihin ohjelmiin, ja lukea niitä kuin piru raamattua.

Osin näin. Toisaalta osa pakolla ajetuista muutoksista oli jo ennakkoon tiedossa. Puhumattakaan siitä, että päivän politiikkaa seuraavat osasivat odottaa, että vaalilupauksien ja reaalipolitiikan välillä on tiettyjen puolueiden kohdalla jo pitkään ollut kuilu. Esim. Kokoomus on päässyt jo useasti pettämään lupaukset siitä, ettei koulutuksesta leikata, ja PS on viestinyt talouslinjoistaan vaalien alla yhtä, ja kääntänyt takkiaan heti vaalien jälkeen.

The point was that in total you probably spend more time in your car than any sane average European would, because you lack options. And because you lack options it’s a hellscape for anyone who can’t drive a car. The point wasn’t your commute, because your commute probably doesn’t represent the median. Also good for you. My commute is also irrelevant, but it’s five minutes walk to a train, ten minutes by train and five minutes walk from the train to the office, all that in an environment where I don’t fear for my life, the noise level permits me to whisper to other people without them having difficulties hearing me.

Soviet Union was bad for multiple reasons but in major cities the housing was not really any worse than anywhere else in the world. I guess you just enjoy spending 3 hours a day in your car.

Fair point. Also a way of classification that I completely omitted inside my mind during previous days.

Also how swirly is the bus route you’d replace by tram, light rail or whatever?

I would argue they’re not equal. Bus makes a bad replacement for a tram and tram can’t really replace the bus if there are no tracks. The reason why I was asking is because Essen and Mühlheim a.d. Ruhr plus some nearby areas have got sections where trams aren’t confined to just the populated areas and do not have many stops and outside the city core they aren’t Stadtbahn, but are that and much more outside the urban areas, act part of the way like the good old Strassenbahn but are marked as Stadtbahn. I guess I don’t really have a point here, just rambling. But really there’s big difference between what you can offer on rails (if you don’t make stupid planning decisions and your system isn’t falling into disrepair) and by buses. Yes, they’re comparable mostly in the way that they’re both moving dozens of people per unit. In everything else, how comparable are they?

I was referring to the numerous options that exist alongside the said rail option in most real world places. But yes, most of the time the bus is the worse option of them two. Less accessible, economical etc.

Which then again is too “techy” for the average person. We both are less likely to be the average person, see.

This video is so full of American stereotypes about transit and bad examples of what is considered improvement because you’re having 10k instead of 3k riders per day in a city with an urban area of more than 600k people?! I think you could have a pretty sensible network that better serves people with the money poured in the UVX. The initial cost of the BRT is higher than that of light rail but with 10k riders per day do you even need a BRT? BRT also is not direct replacement for the tram or light rail, it doesn’t offer the same capacity and ride comfort. Also the queue jumps mentioned in the video are potentially lethal to cyclists.

With good planning of infrastucture this is less of a problem. I say this as someone who’s suffered minor head injury and minor TBI because of the mentioned problem. Only reason for this was I was obeying the law in a place where the only legal place to cycle was in this case the most dangerous one too, and where I had cycled numerous times before without an incident. Now it luckily has a separate path for cyclists, and soon the tram tracks are located in a place where you’d have to do mad stunts to “get into the groove” (no pun intended).

Short answer: no.

You can charge electric buses at termini though. Albeit this doesn’t change the challenges much. The electric buses are best suited for lines where the higher capacity isn’t needed and where the line is not likely to be longer than a little over 15 km.

You wouldn’t even have to go for the “replacing the S-Bahn” to show how ludicrous a BRT is as a suggestion, unless you’re not paying the constructors and drivers a living wage, which is why it makes sense in say Colombia and not in Germany…just think about replacing the M-lines of Berlin tramways with a BRT. It would have to be couple meters wider, would be terribly unreliable and inefficient, not to speak of noisy and bumpy. Now who would want to have that? Not to mention how much the upkeep of two lanes of dedicated BRT costs vs. maintenance of steel on steel rails and catenary. (Most of the time you’d find the latter to be cheaper.) In Helsinki, Finland we are currently waiting for a new tram/light rail option to replace a bus service that should have been a modern tram/light rail line in the first place: https://raidejokeri.info/en/ In the neighbour municipality Vantaa some parties were trying to push for a BRT option but the independent research suggested light rail/tram option to be the best and this is what was chosen: https://www.vantaa.fi/en/housing-and-environment/traffic-and-transport/vantaa-light-rail (they call it light rail but in some ways it’s also reasonable to call it a tram)

This is a common misbelief. Trams and light rail usually have points where the units can go around if one unit has derailed, unless the unit has tipped over, which in itself is very very rare. Good planning is crucial. “A better solution uses corridors dedicated to buses that are electric powered.” Nope, nope, nope. You have to present arguments to this claim, maybe then I can be bothered to counterargument such nonsense.

I thought letbane was not bad. What issues are you referring to?