Alon (they/them)

131. As an exception to the anti-triple-track principle: the Readville-Route 128 triple track project is a good idea. Quad-tracking to allow for easier overtakes of slow trains by fast trains is even better but the timetable can be made to work with just three tracks if three is what's in design.

130. The BWI Fourth Track. The cost is high for what it is ($583 million for 16 km at-grade) but it's a necessary project for Northeast Corridor timetabling. In general, quad-tracking triple-track lines is usually good, whereas triple-tracking double-track ones is usually bad.

Where?

129. Digital displays at all subway and commuter rail stations globally estimating which cars are the most crowded. This technology exists on the Berlin S-Bahn and on the Barcelona Metro, for two, but not, for example, on the U-Bahn here, or in New York.

128. Similarly joint work between Metro-North and buses in Westchester (Bee Line) and Connecticut (CT Transit) on timetabling. As the New Haven Line is also part of an intercity line, this may include Amtrak for additional feedback, to ensure commuter rail works with both intercity rail and buses.

127. Joint work between the LIRR and NICE buses on timetabling so that the buses can pulse with the train, allowing for fast transfers between the two modes.

I only get the reference as an awkward response from the 1990s-2000s to someone being gay.

OpenRailwayMap screengrab depicting the LIRR Main Line from Queens Village to Westbury; the Hempstead Branch branches to its south to serve Garden City and Hempstead. The East Garden City branch is in black, between Garden City and what is labeled on the map as Nassau Community College.

126. Restoration of the LIRR Central Branch to East Garden City. This is designed to both serve the region (one of the top two job center on Long Island, together with Mineola) and beef up inner Hempstead Branch frequencies in Eastern Queens and Floral Park.

125. A subway on Utica Avenue has been proposed in other threads, but let me suggest here that it be extended further to Floyd Bennett Field with redevelopment. The extension should be doable above ground or even at grade (but sadly not cut-and-cover - the water table is too high).

124. Rail electrification of conventional lines in Virginia that cannot be economically replaced with HSR, including in particular Washington-Charlottesville-Roanoke, with upgrades to allow for faster service. But they may still require a forced transfer to the Northeast Corridor at DC Union.

123. I genuinely don't know what the best rail solution for Charleston, WV is, but one needs to be found, perhaps faster connections to Virginia/DC and to Cincinnati. Unfortunately, there's no extant line going north-south to hit Pittsburgh.

Oh, the word "bisexual" is fine. It's everything surrounding it.

122. Upgraded conventional rail within North Carolina connecting cities in the Tidewater with the HSR line in Raleigh and connecting Appalachia with Charlotte.

121. Upgraded conventional rail within South Carolina connecting Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston.

120. HSR between Washington and Atlanta via the North Carolina Triangle, Triad, and Charlotte.

119. Rail on the Delmarva Peninsula from Wilmington to Salisbury. An extension farther south into Virginia is possible but probably uneconomic.

118. Reactivation of legacy rail lines in Atlanta for commuter rail. Unlike Sunbelt peers Houston, Dallas, and especially Miami, Atlanta was a fairly large city in the late 19th century when these lines were built and modernized, so there are more branches that can be used today.

Google Earth screengrab of Downtown Atlanta and the areas to its northeast; at the northeast corner of the map is Druid Hills, where Emory and the CDC are.

117. A third MARTA subway trunk going northeast to serve Emory and the CDC.

Yes, they could have been, but Hamas has hardly been a good faith negotiator. These days they pull out of negotiations and demand ever longer periods of control of Gaza before they start releasing live hostages whenever they think Israel's diplomatic position is weak.

Every word in your skeet is cursed.

How do you get to there from a line justifying killing a journalist and a doctor who were keeping Noa Argamani as a hostage and wishcasting for more hostage rescues, is beyond me.

(Search the name "Zeevi" from my skeets.)

For saying I'm sad Israel didn't kill more people who are keeping hostages? "Hostage keepers" are not an ethnicity.

El Paso County (83% Hispanic in 2020) is directionally the same but much less stark than Socorro. Not sure why they picked Socorro specifically.

El Paso County, by year:
2000: D+18
2004: D+13
2008: D+32
2012: D+32
2016: D+43
2020: D+35
2024: D+15

Oh, yeah, they're extremely racist. I'm defending Mamdani (with better knowledge of the other example he brings up, Hindutva violence in India) because he acknowledges all of this but says the intent is to terrorize into submission, like Jim Crow violence in the US, and not to eliminate.

I don't ask you.

He... what? Why? Why would he think that?

Wait, why would Noah get mad at you for it? I thought he himself said something like this in the late 2010s, when advocating for aggressive banning on Twitter rather than just muting.

(I have that at just shy of 9k, but they aren't relevant.)

At least the way Wiggers portrays it, the military surveys are not of opinions but of how much food the Germans had. "German civilians living in the U.S. and British zones were authorized to receive just over half that amount (1354), and were in fact believed to be obtaining only 1250 on average."

Honestly, I can believe Germans were treated for a year or so in a comparable way to how they treated occupied Western Europeans who were not Jewish, gay, or socialist and were not suspected of connection to resistance groups. We don't accuse Nazi Germany of genocide over that.