Marco Chitti
Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
marcochitti.substack.com
- Now ViaRail goes through the line of boarding people with a scale to weigh people's luggage. When you think it can't get any dumber.
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View full threadAirlines have to weigh luggage because it needs to be balanced for flight performance, and too much weight is dangerous. What’s the justification for trains?
- "All our managers are leftovers from the airlines business"
- There is a future timeline out there where Canada finally gets high-speed rail, but people are still forced to queue up for boarding, have to follow airplane-like luggage rules and are asked to show up 50 minutes before departure at the station. And this is the optimistic scenario.
- Fun fact: the US Navy has a park, complete with baseball diamonds and a golf course, inside a (for now) inactive volcano caldera in the Campi Flegrei area of Naples.
