@Alon Rutte yesterday, Rutte today, Rutte tomorrow.
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Connor Crowley
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Ex NYC construction and transit professional.
@Alon are the target service levels being clearly and early defined, working backwards to infrastructure improvements? If so are any improvements not being purposed because the speedup wouldn't be useful for scheduling needs?
@Alon always feels weird dumping my ballot into a trash bin.
@Alon other thing I have noticed from an engineering capacity is the grades are significantly steeper in NL and pumping capacity appears to be lower (more frequent closers during rain.)
@Alon since the end of WW2 the only thing that has dictated tunnels in place of bridges has been access to naval yards for national defense purposes.
@Alon if MTA follows through on their latest presentation, even partially, I think the Marron institute just hit the transit advocacy high score!
Congrats.
@Alon That could be an artifact from integration. The west German army was the decided "winner" in the integration (both forces shrunk significantly) and the Soviets didn't want bases in the east?
Total speculation, but they haven't exactly invested in the military at any point since, so no real opportunity for any base growth or expansion?
@Alon it's recent. During the cold war when the German armies were incredibly capable this was not the case.
Today I would imagine it is for the political distribution of jobs from a very small force.
@notjustbikes hope you bothered to learn Dutch at some point!
@notjustbikes @scott the combination of legislative and executive power makes our Dutch elections far quicker to have domestic impacts than American elections.
I would frankly be terrified if the USA had a similar government structure to the NL.
The winner most definitely does not take all in the USA system. The position yes, but not power.
I vote in both countries.