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@Alon
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I write about public transport and do research for NYU's Marron Institute. I've previously lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris.
Linguistics feed: I find myself having atypical difficulty with keeping track of Finnish and Hungarian phrases I learn, song lyrics, etc. Somehow it was easier for me to memorize the lyrics to Gangnam Style than it is to random Finnish and Hungarian songs friends recommend me. Why is that?
Jon WorthToday the best resourced, notionally most powerful organisation lobbying for greening Europe's transport system - Transport & Environment (T&E) - came out with its position on the forthcoming EU rail ticketing reform
It makes a good case WHY the reform is needed, but is horrible as to HOW
Transport & Environment tries to come up with a position on rail ticketing, but it's very imprecise
Transport & Environment (T&E), the lobby organisation that works to green Europe's transport sector, has today put online a new page about its position on the forthcoming EU reform of rail ticketing. They were pushing it on LinkedIn as well. You can find everything I have written about this topic
My video on cross-border high-speed rail investments in the EU and what the EU could do to improve them is up:
What the EU can do on Cross-Border Rail
Honestly, my main objection to the film is that in plot and aesthetics the First Order is the new Empire (and this makes sense on screen, with Kylo Ren very explicitly a Vader wannabe), but then the film shows us the New Republic exists and Coruscant is under its control, so why is it a resistance vs. empire plot and not a symmetric total war?
Finally watching the Star Wars sequel trilogy with Cid. The Force Awakens is just a woke remake of A New Hope. Rey is the new Luke (more Mary Sue-ish with the Force, less so with ace piloting), and Kylo Ren is Temu Darth Vader and all the other First Order characters are Temu Empire too.
Why is Harry Dempsey writing that Shinkansen passenger numbers are "dwindling"? They are at their peak, on a par with the pre-corona peak. Wikipedia has numbers by line, but its "sum" column is unlinked for 2018 and linked for 2024, creating a fictional decline. https://www.ft.com/content/aaac943e-34ee-4b05-9ef4-ff112341cc52?syn-25a6b1a6=1
I'm watching Star Wars with @cidney, one day, one film. Today, the Phantom Menace. It's a lot worse than I remember. Anakin acts like a middle-class American boy, Jar-Jar is a generic ethnic stereotype, Watto is a greedy Jewish stereotype, Panaka is forgettable...
Live now, talking about what the EU can do to build an EU-wide HSR network. https://www.twitch.tv/alon_levy
Alon_Levy - Twitch
I study and write about trains, especially how they compare in different places. I live in Berlin, but have lived in a bunch of other cities (Tel Aviv, Singapore, French Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris), so I have eye level experience of a bunch of different systems.