That’s really interesting, I wouldn’t have assumed that given the passenger counts on trains, the longer lifespan of the equipment, and the increased passenger/personnel ratio.
I guess train maintenance can be more expensive than bus maintenance, though bus engines require more complex maintenance as far as I know. I guess the capital costs of the vehicles and the rails maybe outweigh tee capital costs of the buses.
Decades of underinvestment.
It’s great that they offer the service at all, but it’s impossible to get reasonable service renting a freight rail line that goes the wrong way, while the freight company does everything they can to make Amtrak service worse to maximize shareholder value. Amtrak needs to own its own rails if we want trains to be faster than buses or flying.
It depends. If the train is faster then you have lower personnel hours. You can also fit many times more people on a train than a bus so you need fewer vehicles and drivers. For city transit, commuter trains are always cheaper per passenger than busses, assuming the train capacity is being well used.
2 people in a car is always more efficient than flying in terms of global warming potential I think. A long haul flight has similar GWP/km to driving 1 person. Shorter flights are worse.
Just physically having 1 billion dollars would take up the majority of a room, stacked up as a solid mass of $100 bills. It’s physically impossible to have 100 billion dollars in the same place, let alone 1 trillion.
Nah conservatives wouldnt implement mamdani’s policies, definitely on the left.
Away with excess enemy!
Good to hear the DNC acknowledging the cost of living crisis and income inequality. Coalition building is a good goal.
He’s completely wrong about his job being top-down control of candidates though. We need to build grassroot campaigns and get more people running for office at every level, we can’t just have the DNC picking bad presidential candidates and throwing their hands in the air when they inevitably lose.
The ICE gestapo is going to terrorize NYC no matter who’s mayor. I don’t think even Curtis Sliwa in office would discourage Trump.
But yeah, Mamdani has high expectations just like Obama did. Luckily, he has a lot of councilpeople on his side. The DSA has grown a lot in the past decade.
Bernie had a lot of resistance when he was first elected mayor too, but that didn’t stop him from making a difference there and getting elected over and over again.
The struggle doesn’t end on election day!
Trump and Harris had record turnout in 2024. People voting for Trump against Harris in 2024 had a bigger effect than apathy for Clinton in 2016.
Leak comment about Miller’s next victim?
Being Trump’s Vice President is the most dangerous job in America. Dude has a (very small) boner for VPcide.
Any criticism of fascism means you’re threatening violence against innocent brownshirts.
Say FDT? Congrats, you’re going to jail for making an attempt on the president’s life.
Let the states take back authority on policy until the federal branch can sort out its structural issues.
“Illegals” is official federal terminology now?
Literally worse than the goons in Hong Kong. At least they had badge numbers.
Unfortunately, politics is terminally online now.
That article is honestly kind of nonsensical and reads like AI. What does Watergate have to do with any of this?
It was Kimmel’s remarks about Trump that got him censored. Kimmel didn’t say anything at all about Charlie Kirk, he only commented on Trump/MAGAs reaction to Charlie Kirk’s shooting.
My man, race is a social construct. Skin pigment doesn’t care if you’re from Mexico or from China, it’s literally the same color.