<Pinkbeast>
I don't think they make comparisons with the US because it's one of the few places the railways are worse off
<UmbralRaptor>
Hence NaN.
<UmbralRaptor>
eg: my recent trip: Springfield MO → State College PA → Fairfax VA: only the middle stop has an Amtrak.
<Pinkbeast>
Well, we've got the Beeching blight of missing stations but at least we generally don't trawl around at 55mph
<Iskierka>
even the pacers do 70 on good track
* Pinkbeast
mostly used to see Pacers on MBO-WTB where er not so much 70 :-(
<Iskierka>
they do 70 on the manchester side of the pennines. Have to slow down after summit tunnel as the track wiggles around (or presumably that's the reason)
<Pinkbeast>
Owen (of the photograph every station in Britain project) says they're not too bad on smooth track and I guess he would know
<Iskierka>
track's definitely imperfect in that area but the only really bad bit is the junction to the old yard near castleton where the rails definitely need some realignment, but I presume that's hard on the switch
<Iskierka>
train body definitely moves over a foot in both horizontal and vertical passing that at speed
<UmbralRaptor>
Reminder that most elected Dems and all Reps oppose single payer.
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“Sing to me, Muse, of a basic mismatch between the value of the services Achilles son of Peleus provided to the Achaean army, as perceived by Achilles and others, and the manner in which red-haired Menelaus, son of Atreus, was willing to compensate him for said services.”