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- Thu May 19, 2022 9:56 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
Due to the economic policies followed by the present Govt. the middle-class which was growing at a healthy 5-6% year or year had been going down. This article from before the pandemic actually tells you what the situation was and pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war has made things much more difficul...
Jump to post- Thu May 19, 2022 9:49 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
I already shared the maths, if you have dedicated one HSR, then only 1% will be able to travel on that route, what happens to others. They won't be able to travel. Is India so poor that only 1% can afford travelling on HSR? And regardless of answer, I am definitely sure more than 1% people in Calif...
Jump to post- Thu May 19, 2022 9:40 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: How Norway killed the petrol car
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1195
Re: How Norway killed the petrol car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtzuZIO-88 Very relevant to our times. How a bunch of wealthy white people made themselves feel better by driving massive chemical reactors around filled with heavy metals…. To me it has no relevance. And that’s my demographic group, more or less (shrug!) If we care...
Jump to post- Wed May 18, 2022 8:05 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
And while granted what I'm sharing is just city-wide, inter-city is the same thing. What you would ideally want are services which are at least twice-thrice a day or even more. I'll just share for e.g. the traffic between Mumbai and Pune and there were something like 200+ trains between the two cit...
Jump to post- Wed May 18, 2022 5:16 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 185
- Views: 21960
Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022
Adani Group's networth is 26k crore INR but their loans are today 2.2 trillion rupees. This was published in the Hindu just a couple of months ago and even came today with the latest figures mentioned. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/corporate-file/can-the-adani-group-digest-its-debt/...
Jump to post- Wed May 18, 2022 12:08 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: How Norway killed the petrol car
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1195
How Norway killed the petrol car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtzuZIO-88Very relevant to our times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtzuZIO-88
Very relevant to our times.
- Tue May 17, 2022 11:44 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2646
Re: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
I just shared crime stats of India in another thread viz-a-vis the U.S. even though we have thrice the population of the U.S. in less than half the area compared to the U.S. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/India/United-States/Crime Ooookay but crime stats for India are not really ...
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 11:40 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: The Coming Global Debt Storm & Global Food Shortages
- Replies: 12
- Views: 854
Re: The Coming Global Debt Storm & Global Food Shortages
Bank of England governor sounds ‘apocalyptic’ warning on food shortages due to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bank-of-england-governorandrew-bailey-warning-food-shortages-putin-invasion-ukraine-b1000338.html May 17, 2022 Soft Paywall The Bank of England gove...
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 11:24 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2646
Re: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-in ... ates/CrimeI just shared crime stats of India in another thread viz-a-vis the U.S. even though we have thrice the population of the U.S. in less than half the area compared to the U.S.
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-in ... ates/Crime
- Tue May 17, 2022 10:05 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Climate change and India and Pakistan heat wave
- Replies: 0
- Views: 134
Climate change and India and Pakistan heat wave
https://www.vox.com/23057267/india-paki ... south-asiaRains to my city is still a month away
https://www.vox.com/23057267/india-paki ... south-asia
Rains to my city is still a month away
- Tue May 17, 2022 10:03 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2646
Re: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
Comparing murders to mass shootings is comparing apples to oranges. No. A dead person is a dead person. Whether it's political or crime related, it's a dead person. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Even in crime rate, India is far lower than the U.S. https://www.nationmaster....
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 9:56 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2646
Re: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
Comparing murders to mass shootings is comparing apples to oranges. No. A dead person is a dead person. Whether it's political or crime-related, it's a dead person. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Is India a developed economy? First answer this question and then we can compa...
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 5:49 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 185
- Views: 21960
Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022
Adani Group's networth is 26k crore INR but their loans are today 2.2 trillion rupees. This was published in the Hindu just a couple of months ago and even came today with the latest figures mentioned. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/corporate-file/can-the-adani-group-digest-its-debt/a...
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 5:23 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2646
Re: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
India's murder rate isn't especially low, considering the lack of firearms. True, but murder is far different from mass shootings. Murders have gone up, but many of them are political in nature. The current political party in the center is against Muslims. So you see the violence done on them and t...
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 2:46 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2646
Re: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
Gang shootings aren't typically included because they often involve other gang members being shot and are easy to avoid if you aren't involved in a gang. Additionally, when people picture a "mass shooting", they typically picture something like what happened in Buffalo rather than two gan...
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 1:37 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: The Coming Global Debt Storm & Global Food Shortages
- Replies: 12
- Views: 854
Re: The Coming Global Debt Storm & Global Food Shortages
Sri Lanka's debt crisis is a warning to the world. The World Bank says a global debt storm is coming. It could engulf 70 developing countries & make their economies fall like dominoes. What are the threats they face? It's surprising how many large and small countries depend on their wheat comin...
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 1:32 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Lawyers can't meet clients before being charged in Scotland ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 267
Lawyers can't meet clients before being charged in Scotland ?
I have been reading a couple of Scottish novels. in it, both written by Stuart MacBride, it seems in Scotland. you cannot get a lawyer before you are charged and he/she/they cannot counsel you before your initial statement to the police. Is this true ?
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 1:28 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2646
Re: One dead 5 wounded in Laguna Woods CA church shooting
What I find funny and ironic is that at the same time if an American or multiple Americans are killed anywhere outside the U.S. it can become a diplomatic incident. While if is shot in the good old U.S. its an everyday occurence.
Jump to post- Tue May 17, 2022 5:35 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Gasoline prices, it hurts.
- Replies: 493
- Views: 28748
Re: Gasoline prices, it hurts.
There are solutions and as times goes on, more such solutions will be there in lesser time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHuldVlpFA Solar and wind would be good, but it's not always sunny or windy. So there has to be reasonable solutions for generating a charge that can actually charge up thos...
Jump to post- Sun May 15, 2022 5:34 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.
- Replies: 201
- Views: 7552
Re: 10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.
The report I read said after this a-hole shot up the place, he put the gun to his chin but the cops talked him out of doing himself in. Too bad - nothing would be more deserving than this piece of filth to be removed from the planet. There are no words in the English language to strongly enough con...
Jump to post- Sun May 15, 2022 4:26 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Gasoline prices, it hurts.
- Replies: 493
- Views: 28748
Re: Gasoline prices, it hurts.
Right next to the gas station in the woods…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I know that's somewhat facetious, but... it's a legit question, I think. You can bring fuel in your actual gas tank and then you can bring more fuel in reserve tanks; yes, they cost weight and space, but it's extra fuel...
Jump to post- Sat May 14, 2022 5:04 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
Too many cooks in the kitchen. In some respects, there is too much democratic process in local politics. Ever been to a planning commission meeting that has a public comment component? I have and sometimes they only get to agenda item 4 by 1 AM and call it a day with five items remaining. But if yo...
Jump to post- Sat May 14, 2022 4:55 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
The point of the posting the news article, was to show that big building projects on the scale of the CAHSR project cannot be done in this day and age sadly. The only large-scale project that has gone relatively on time so far is the LGA terminal rebuilds. Even AA had a dumpster fire building its t...
Jump to post- Fri May 13, 2022 12:39 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
For Japan look at - https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/256221468752350809/pdf/multi-page.pdf 1. Why are you quoting a document from the year 1992, which is a whole 30 years ago? 2. Even this document identified, "Gradually, competition from automobiles and aircraft intensified, and JN...
Jump to post- Fri May 13, 2022 12:25 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curate ... i-page.pdfFor France and Spain look at -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 6517307214
Both tell their own stories.
For Japan look at -
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curate ... i-page.pdf
For France and Spain look at -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 6517307214
Both tell their own stories.
- Fri May 13, 2022 12:24 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
Americans, and to some extent Canadians, have been so indoctrinated with this fantasy that cares and airplanes are the only travel options. We have been told for decades that trains are slow and unreliable all while watching the EU, Japan, and China build high-speed networks in addition to air and ...
Jump to post- Thu May 12, 2022 8:23 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
Americans, and to some extent Canadians, have been so indoctrinated with this fantasy that cares and airplanes are the only travel options. We have been told for decades that trains are slow and unreliable all while watching EU, Japan, and China build high speed networks in addition to air and road...
Jump to post- Wed May 11, 2022 11:44 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
What you have missed in the enthusiasm are the loans taken by the Japanese and the Chinese for the development of their HSR networks and both are in debt traps. Obviously, one day or the other the respective Governments will bail them out. The Japanese put sweeteners and actually gave a proposal to ...
Jump to post- Wed May 11, 2022 5:19 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
Before I start, I wanna make a point clear, I'm a proponent of rail and more rail but HSR has issues. Just went through some of the arguments above. FWIW, the problem with HSR is that it's costly and has to be subsidized one way or the other. The Japanese for e.g. have been living with stagflation f...
Jump to post- Wed May 11, 2022 4:45 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4224
Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties
IMO, the current plan to wander through the Central valley while connecting the Bay area with LA is quite similar to the reason Micky Mouse left Minnie Mouse. They lost a lot of support with that. Totally outside the topic but when did that happen, I thought Micky and Minnie were soul mates ??? (he...
Jump to post- Tue May 10, 2022 4:20 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 185
- Views: 21960
Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022
I think the Air Asia India & Air India merger makes a lot of sense. Considering AI has condensed their operations to mostly BOM and DEL based operations, Air Asia India flies many routes that were flown by Air India themselves before the pandemic. Take COK for an example, Air India used to fly ...
Jump to post- Tue May 10, 2022 3:50 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022
- Replies: 185
- Views: 21960
There is a pretty good summation of what happened by one of the travelers who was there at Ranchi Airport, her account of the proceedings. I tried to copy but because it is text-heavy airliners.net wouldn't let me copy -
https://www.facebook.com/10000627889265 ... 312194800/