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Share your daily rides, post pics and stats. Complain about hills and mosquitoes.
you do actually ride your bike, right anon?
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Disasters never have one root cause and neither did the destruction of cycling. But I know some important milestones in the decline and fall:
1. COVID 19. Enough said.
2. Full suspension mountain bikes. Enough said.
3. Reddit. Enough said.
4. Twitter. Enough said.
5. British "people". Enough said.
6. The d-tch. Enough said.
7. The state of Utah. Enough said.
8. Zwift, Peloton, "Spin Class", and other cancer. Enough said.
What were some other key moments?
1. COVID 19. Enough said.
2. Full suspension mountain bikes. Enough said.
3. Reddit. Enough said.
4. Twitter. Enough said.
5. British "people". Enough said.
6. The d-tch. Enough said.
7. The state of Utah. Enough said.
8. Zwift, Peloton, "Spin Class", and other cancer. Enough said.
What were some other key moments?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_bUVc7o7A
> As a train enthusiast, none of these are brightlines fault. The only reason they have so many deaths are because of people doing stupid things around the tracks like trying to beat the train, or walking on the tracks.
Do you autists not realize how sociopathic this makes you look?
The train has killed over 180 people since 2017.
It's killing a person EVERY THIRTEEN DAYS.
> As a train enthusiast, none of these are brightlines fault. The only reason they have so many deaths are because of people doing stupid things around the tracks like trying to beat the train, or walking on the tracks.
Do you autists not realize how sociopathic this makes you look?
The train has killed over 180 people since 2017.
It's killing a person EVERY THIRTEEN DAYS.
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Post your favorite or most used train station or bus stop.
Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
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If Dreamstar brings back the Lark, it would be a good stopgap measure until CAHSR Bakersfield-Palmdale opens in the 2040s. The Coast Starlight sucks, nobody wants to spend 12 hours in the middle of the day going from Jack London to LA Union in a train with no wifi 9 am to 9 pm.
Stuff the economy cars with reclinable seats, put all the crying babies in one car, dim the lights, and let me sleep 9 hours to LA Union Station for under 100 dollars.
They're not going to be able to achieve their stated goal of 2026. There's an equipment shortage and they won't be able to get everything in place in time. Even if they only run the service during holidays when airports are packed and airlines raise their prices it will still be a boon to travellers as long as the price is cheaper than a flight
Stuff the economy cars with reclinable seats, put all the crying babies in one car, dim the lights, and let me sleep 9 hours to LA Union Station for under 100 dollars.
They're not going to be able to achieve their stated goal of 2026. There's an equipment shortage and they won't be able to get everything in place in time. Even if they only run the service during holidays when airports are packed and airlines raise their prices it will still be a boon to travellers as long as the price is cheaper than a flight
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Almost two years ago, I put up a thread about Dreamstar Lines, a company aiming to reinvigorate private passenger rail in the US with an overnight service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which has been absent since the discontinuation of Southern Pacific's Lark service in 1968. Today, I've come to bring you some updates
>restored Bilevel cars (either Santa Fe Hi-Levels or retired Amtrak Superliners) will be used at first, but there planes to replace them long-term with modern purpose-built cars
>BMW subsidiary Designworks, has been contracted to design the car interiors, drawing heavily from Art Deco (often considered the zenith of American passenger rails service)
>there are now four class, family, bedroom, suite, and standard, the latter will be the highest class despite its name
>amenities will include both late-night dining in a dedicated bar car as well as room-to-room breakfast service
>rather than purchase surplus Amtrak or Caltrans motive power, or even buying Simens Chargers, ZELTECH and HyOrc have been contracted to design custom locomotives using the Rankine-cycle for the service in order to comply with California emissions requirements
>start of service has been pushed back to 2026 at the earliest (shocker), with the aim of launching in time for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles
Sources:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-freight-rail-fueled-a-new-luxury-overnight-train-startup
https://drifttravel.com/dreamstar-lines-art-deco-iinspirednteriors-overnight-rail-service/
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/zeltech-dreamstar-clean-energy-locomotives/?cf-view
The company website's even gotten an overhaul recently, albeit still full of AI-slop
https://www.dreamstarlines.com/
Link to the last thread https://archive.palanq.win/n/thread/1974491/#q1974491
>restored Bilevel cars (either Santa Fe Hi-Levels or retired Amtrak Superliners) will be used at first, but there planes to replace them long-term with modern purpose-built cars
>BMW subsidiary Designworks, has been contracted to design the car interiors, drawing heavily from Art Deco (often considered the zenith of American passenger rails service)
>there are now four class, family, bedroom, suite, and standard, the latter will be the highest class despite its name
>amenities will include both late-night dining in a dedicated bar car as well as room-to-room breakfast service
>rather than purchase surplus Amtrak or Caltrans motive power, or even buying Simens Chargers, ZELTECH and HyOrc have been contracted to design custom locomotives using the Rankine-cycle for the service in order to comply with California emissions requirements
>start of service has been pushed back to 2026 at the earliest (shocker), with the aim of launching in time for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles
Sources:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-freight-rail-fueled-a-new-luxury-overnight-train-startup
https://drifttravel.com/dreamstar-lines-art-deco-iinspirednteriors-overnight-rail-service/
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/zeltech-dreamstar-clean-energy-locomotives/?cf-view
The company website's even gotten an overhaul recently, albeit still full of AI-slop
https://www.dreamstarlines.com/
Link to the last thread https://archive.palanq.win/n/thread/1974491/#q1974491
