@tml for a city which can buy a translohr #gadgetbahn , I wouldn't think this is any more silly.
#Gadgetbahn
@jon light rail in Irish&British context refers more to the signalling& control of railways than the mass of the vehicles
But it is a #gadgetBahn
Oh look, techbros dared to ask "what if trains but worse" again.
https://newatlas.com/transport/autonomous-road-rail-truck-glid-2025/
#Transportation #Trains #Trucking #Gadgetbahn #techbro #BadIdeas
Being taken for a ride
Coventry Very Light Rail is, as the name suggests, a very light, battery-powered tram system being developed in Dudley. And the exciting news for we fans of innovative transport is that we will be able to go for a ride on it for four weeks over the end of May and the start of June.
I’ll be having my ride on Sunday 8th June…
#AzadiRail day 8 was : enjoying the flaire of :flag_krd: #Hewlêr / #Erbil and recovering from an exhausting travel day - served with vegan food in the bazar and a cursed #GadgetBahn .
🚂🇫🇷🇩🇪🇦🇹🇭🇺🇷🇴🇧🇬🇦🇩🇹🇷:flag_krd:
One day in :flag_krd: #Hewlêr / #Erbil : I spent most of the day walking around the cozy bazar. Later, I ensured to have #AzadiRail #GadgetBahn content served from 🇮🇶 Iraqi #Kurdistan : the Hewlêr cable car - sadly out if order.
Poll for #AzadiRail day 7 : taking the #GadgetBahn in 🇮🇶 #Erbil ?
can't wait to watch 1,300 people get off a Ouigo and cram into one of these
paraphrased: "people have to wait ages, sometimes half an hour, between their TGV arriving and the shuttle into the town centre, and the last TGV of the day arrives after the shuttle has stopped running"
any idiot like me might be tempted to say, hmm, you need a better timetable. but luckily i am not in charge because really what they need is TINY TRAINS
Of course in Bologna, I have to try the local #gadgetbahn. The Marconi Express. Which is technically not a monorail even if marketed as such. Not going all the way to the airport, that is unnecessarily expensive. Just to Lazzaretto and back. Sadly, you can’t even look through a forward window.
What sorcery is this? Monorail rubber tyre tram? Excellent idea, or just another stupid #gadgetbahn? ”Can’t have steel wheels on steel rails, that would not be futuristic at all!” Rubber tyre manufacturers active here? In #Padova
Oh boy. The 29th of March 2025 there will be a symposium about “sustainable mobility in the German-Dutch border region” in the old station of Kranenburg (on the disused Nijmegen-Kleve #CrossBorderRail line).
The icing on the cake: there will be a live demonstration of an "innovative monorail technology”🤪called the "MONOCAB". This is a gyrostabilised 4-6 person autonomous pod which should run on a single track.
Tl;dr: another useless #GadgetBahn project.
Speaking of #Futurama, the irony is the writers put that in the title sequences because it’s fun … but they would also see that it’s a #gadgetbahn and achieves a lot less per dollar than high speed rail, or even just a standard metro.
A new metro today would be built with the same “boring” technology, but bigger and more “luxury” space, and would use driverless trains, and run at 100 km/h or 130km/h.
Not only fast, but carries hundreds of seats every 3 minutes, more or less.
Hoy, en #gadgetbahn, #trenes de alta velocidad a baterías. Los trenes a baterías SOLO están bien en líneas donde la electrificación no es posible. Y una ruta de alta velocidad DEBE estar electrificada.
Honey, wake up! The next #Gadgetbahn just dropped!
Og kommentarfeltfolka i #Østlendingen er, som i mange kommentarfelt, også her løk.
Problemet er at dette er noen fagfolk har drevet å #gadgetbahn-et om, så det er ikke så rart folk forestiller seg at dette stemmer.
Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...
"The muck pooling in the tunnel at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip had the consistency of a milkshake and, in some places, sat at least two feet deep. ... At first, it merely felt damp. But in addition to the water, sand and silt—the natural byproducts of any dig—the workers understood that it was full of chemicals known as accelerants.
"The accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”"
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/su7fa
#Urbanism #Gadgetbahn #Elon #ElonMusk #Transit #PublicTransport #Cars #Car #Nevada #Capitalism #Business #Economics #LasVegas #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars
Looking forward to this one.
The Well There's Your Problem crew is amazing, always on point (even when getting way off track) and @GarethDennis is always a delight.
Plus: the hyperloop is dead. But I guess politicians will keep falling for gadgetbahn hype.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeTC4NB3GGk&ab_channel=WellThere%27sYourProblemPodcast
#WellTheresYourProblem #RailNatter #Hyperloop #GadgetBahn #Transit
A #monorail!? At the Madonna di Montenero church up on a hill near Riomaggiore, #CinqueTerre. A miniature freight #gadgetbahn?
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