I rode through it at 5am on my motorbike with a friend, looked pretty damn awesome, way way better than the old busport. Although I won't get a chance to use it as I don't touch public transport due to the time it takes to get everywhere.
It'll be nice when the roadworks are fully done in Wellington street.
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[QUOTE]South Korean workers evacuating the Kaesong Industrial Region in North Korea arrive at a border checkpoint between the North and South near Paju, South Korea on April 27, 2013 shortly after South Korea's decision to pull its workers from the complex. Their vehicles are heavily loaded with any equipment and products that could be evacuated from the facility.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=pentium;50911918]Platform doors are gross. They're often afterthought anti-suicide barriers.[/QUOTE]
Of course you of all people would think of a safety feature as "gross".
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[QUOTE]People walk on a sightseeing platform in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China, on August 1, 2016. #
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[QUOTE]A combo picture shows a mural painted by street artist Lushsux, bearing the image of U.S. Democratic Party nominee for President Hillary Clinton wearing a stars-and-stripes themed swimsuit stuffed with cash (left) pictured on July 31, 2016 and on August 1, 2016 covered up in Islamic dress, features on the wall of a business in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray in Australia. The local city council had deemed the original mural offensive and requested that the artist remove it. He responded by painting over it, covering Hillary Clinton in a niqab. #
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[QUOTE]People on horseback use the drive thru at a McDonald's restaurant in Los Barrios, Spain, on July 31, 2016. #
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[editline]19th August 2016[/editline]
Holy sweet macaroni
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I love ridiculously awesome camera shots like that, holy shit
Practical effects are always cool.
[video=youtube;agS6ZXBrcng]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS6ZXBrcng[/video]
The American Ford Taurus against the European Ford Mondeo (which is considered a big family car)
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While its all cool and shit at first but once you get disenchanted horse traffic is on par with campervans in terms with how annoying they can get. Especially horsecarts.
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Лесныепожары во Франции[/URL] by [URL="https://www.flickr.com/photos/roscosmos/"]Roscosmos[/URL], on Flickr
Forest fires just outside of Marseille seen from the ISS.
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Someone tried to do this in the UK, however they said it was for cars only. He said fine and took it into the restaurant and tried to order at the counter, the horse then took a shit on the floor.
[url]http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/10562403.Horse_rider_s_fast_food_fine/[/url]
She was fined £90
The remains of Canadian Pacific 694 which was derailed by rock slide sending into Lake Superior killing all three of the locomotive's crew
[video=youtube;nTfWHoqZfGQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTfWHoqZfGQ[/video]
[QUOTE]During the night, and into the morning of June 10, the train crossed the Aguasabon River, and rounded the sinuous curves of Jackfish Bay. Not far east of what is now Neys Provincial Park, about 6 miles northwest of what is now the town of Marathon, the train approached Mink Harbor on Lake Superior.
"The main line at that location is right beside the lake but the lake level is about 65 feet ... below the level of the track," said Doug Stefurak of Schreiber, a retired CPR locomotive engineer.
With a rock face to their left and the lake far below to their right, the three-man crew of the 694 found themselves bearing down on a rockslide dead ahead, strewn across the rails. There was no way to avoid a crash.
McMillan apparently jumped from the train in a futile attempt to escape; his body was later found beside the tracks.
"The other two guys, the engineer and the fireman, they went over the embankment" and into the lake along with the 694, a tender car and at least two boxcars, Stefurak said. "The fireman's body was never recovered."[/QUOTE]
Source: [URL]http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4098295-finding-694-106-years-after-tragic-crash-locomotive-located-lake-superior[/URL]
Also a undated video(probably 90s or 2000s, she was originally restored in 1981) of UP 3985 dragging a 143 car inter-modal consist:
[video=youtube;XhgHrDbN4EU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgHrDbN4EU[/video]
They're going to work on getting her running again after 4014 is done.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50912453]Of course you of all people would think of a safety feature as "gross".[/QUOTE]
We've designed stations here from day one to use transparent safety systems. Without barriers stations also feel a lot more open which can encourage designers to put more effort into the open space within a station limit the claustrophobic effect or poor ventilation they sometimes also introduce.
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Brentwood-stn-platform.jpg[/t]
In that photo alone there are no less than five different systems that prevent people from getting hit by a train unless they were really, really committed.
[QUOTE=pentium;50926550]We've designed stations here from day one to use transparent safety systems. Without barriers stations also feel a lot more open which can encourage designers to put more effort into the open space within a station limit the claustrophobic effect or poor ventilation they sometimes also introduce.
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Brentwood-stn-platform.jpg[/t]
In that photo alone there are no less than five different systems that prevent people from getting hit by a train unless they were really, really committed.[/QUOTE]
What if someone tripped and fell onto the tracks? Or if they fainted and fell onto the tracks? Or one of the many other things that could lead to someone accidentally falling onto the tracks?
We use a system called PIES. (Platform Intrusion Emergency System) It can't stop the determined ones but for everything else it works really well.
[QUOTE=pentium;50926888]We use a system called PIES. (Platform Intrusion Emergency System) It can't stop the determined ones but for everything else it works really well.[/QUOTE]
So it just puts on the emergency brake if it detects someone on the track? How does that prevent someone jumping in front of it?
[QUOTE=pentium;50926550]We've designed stations here from day one to use transparent safety systems. Without barriers stations also feel a lot more open which can encourage designers to put more effort into the open space within a station limit the claustrophobic effect or poor ventilation they sometimes also introduce.
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Brentwood-stn-platform.jpg[/t]
In that photo alone there are no less than five different systems that prevent people from getting hit by a train unless they were really, really committed.[/QUOTE]
I always wondered about electrocution though.
It's third rail, and i'm guessing the negative return is one of the rails, so if someone falls across the rails because they tripped or whatever, what's stopping them from frying if they complete the circuit? It's standard gauge so they only have to cover about 2 feet
I'm presuming that that section of rail only goes live when a train is about to roll over it, but supposing you have that perfect storm where someone falls behind a departing train, onto a live rail, what's keeping them from dying? Are there beams/triggers/whatever that cuts the power before the person hits? Is the live section so short that you'd have to fall within an inch of the last bogie to hit? This is canada, so no way in hell would the goverment allow it to be built unless it was unreasonably safe, so i've always wondered
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;50927861]I always wondered about electrocution though.
It's third rail, and i'm guessing the negative return is one of the rails, so if someone falls across the rails because they tripped or whatever, what's stopping them from frying if they complete the circuit? It's standard gauge so they only have to cover about 2 feet
I'm presuming that that section of rail only goes live when a train is about to roll over it, but supposing you have that perfect storm where someone falls behind a departing train, onto a live rail, what's keeping them from dying? Are there beams/triggers/whatever that cuts the power before the person hits? This is canada, so no way in hell would the goverment allow it to be built unless it was unreasonably safe, so i've always wondered[/QUOTE]
There are none of those things. You touch the third rail and you die. Simple as that.
The third rail is the vertical rail you can see with the cover over it. It's not easy to accidentally fall onto.
Third rail systems are generally always live and unprotected. You are SOOL.
[QUOTE=download;50927877]There are none of those things. You touch the third rail and you die. Simple as that.
The third rail is the vertical rail you can see with the cover over it. It's not easy to accidentally fall onto.[/QUOTE]
So is the return the large strip in the middle? I know bugger all about electric rail
Even then, i find it hard to believe that a canadian goverment would allow stations that open if there was the one in a million chance of someone zapping themselves if they fell in
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;50927893]So is the return the large strip in the middle? I know bugger all about electric rail
Even then, i find it hard to believe that a canadian goverment would allow stations that open if there was the one in a million chance of someone zapping themselves if they fell in[/QUOTE]
The rolling rails are the return, the side rail is live.
Third-rail is a terrible idea, even more so if you have level crossings. That said, it was the very first rail electrification system and for that reason it's still used. It would never past muster if it was invented today.
I'm not familiar with this at all so I may be wrong but don't most subway systems use third rail?
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50928056]I'm not familiar with this at all so I may be wrong but don't most subway systems use third rail?[/QUOTE]
Well pantographs can be used as well but most "pure" subways don't use them.
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[quote]Anti-Communist Poster (Romania, 1989)[/quote]
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[quote]"Should It Stay Like This? No! Never! Right of Self-determination for every people! Reunification In Peace And Freedom" (FRG, 1963)[/quote]
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[quote]Recruitment Poster (USA, 1916)[/quote]
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[quote]"Against Papen, Hitler and Thälmann" Sozialdemokraten Election Poster (Weimar Republic, 1932)[/quote]
[QUOTE=pentium;50926888]We use a system called PIES. (Platform Intrusion Emergency System) It can't stop the determined ones but for everything else it works really well.[/QUOTE]
Still what's even the point of putting people's lives at risk for some nebulous design advantages? Platforms with barriers can look really nice too anyway.
I always wondered why we don't have those barriers here in Moscow. With people regularly falling from platforms during the rush hours when the stations are overcrowded it just makes so much sense to build them. Sure there are safety systems here too, but simple transparent walls separating trains from platforms would just solve the problem once and for all.
[QUOTE=antianan;50928960]Still what's even the point of putting people's lives at risk for some nebulous design advantages? Platforms with barriers can look really nice too anyway.
I always wondered why we don't have those barriers here in Moscow. With people regularly falling from platforms during the rush hours when the stations are overcrowded it just makes so much sense to build them. Sure there are safety systems here too, but simple transparent walls separating trains from platforms would just solve the problem once and for all.[/QUOTE]
Cause to put it at every station and needing to make people work on it is fucking expensive and inconvenient to travelers.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;50929283]Cause to put it at every station and needing to make people work on it is fucking expensive and inconvenient to travelers.[/QUOTE]
Inconvenience is a relative thing. Security measures in airports are inconvenient for travelers too, but everyone understands that they are necessary. As for the cost, just put some metal railings instead if those walls are too expensive. They are dirt cheap and would do almost as good as walls, except for being a bit more uglier.
[QUOTE=antianan;50929323]Inconvenience is a relative thing. Security measures in airports are inconvenient for travelers too, but everyone understands that they are necessary. As for the cost, just put some metal railings instead if those walls are too expensive. They are dirt cheap and would do almost as good as walls, except for being a bit more uglier.[/QUOTE]
If someone wants to jump onto the tracks I doubt a metal rail would stop them, I think its better what they do here. Instead of covering the platform in barriers they have suicide prevention posters everywhere with the helpline number on it.
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;50929773]If someone wants to jump onto the tracks I doubt a metal rail would stop them, I think its better what they do here. Instead of covering the platform in barriers they have suicide prevention posters everywhere with the helpline number on it.[/QUOTE]
Well, I wasn't actually talking about suicide prevention( which is a pretty strange idea itself imo, since if a person really wants to kill themselves, they will find a way to do that anyway). It's all about accidents prevention and just basic safety. Without barriers all it takes for you to end up down there in a good company of that deadly power rail and an oncoming train is a single accidental push or a careless step, which are not uncommon on overcrowded platforms.
[QUOTE=antianan;50929914]Well, I wasn't actually talking about suicide prevention( which is a pretty strange idea itself imo, since if a person really wants to kill themselves, they will find a way to do that anyway).[/quote]
Not exactly true. If a person is merely tempted to kill themselves, the likelihood depends on how easy it is. For example how coal gas ovens existing in British households caused a spike in suicides by being the preferred method.
[QUOTE=antianan;50929914] It's all about accidents prevention and just basic safety. Without barriers all it takes for you to end up down there in a good company of that deadly power rail and an oncoming train is a single accidental push or a careless step, which are not uncommon on overcrowded platforms.[/QUOTE]
That is true. Also occasionally people push others down to the rails on purpose.
A documentary about the building of Tornado:
[video=youtube;inrGbj3EDFY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrGbj3EDFY[/video]
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