Voici un petit documentaire sur la construction du Grand Paris Express. Il y a beaucoup de détails sur le forage de tunnels par TBM dans ce documentaire.
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Vu passé dans mon fil X, les opposants au projet HS2 en Grande-Bretagne ont un éléphant blanc 
Rappel de ce qu’est un éléphant blanc métaphoriquement
Un éléphant blanc (calque de l’anglais white elephant) est une réalisation d’envergure prestigieuse qui s’avère en définitive plus coûteuse que bénéfique et dont l’exploitation ou l’entretien devient alors un fardeau financier.
That’s really stupid from the greens to be against that project. There definitely is something that needs to be said about the cost of the project, but the project itself needs to be built in its entirety. The Western Mainline is bursting at the seams. When listening to videos, one of the things i hear consistently is that there isn’t enough capacity for the demand. HS2 would allow long distance travel to move onto a new pair of rail which would provide more capacity for local and freight on the Western Mainline.
It kind of reminds me at our own green party. I used to have a soft spot for the environmental aspect of their platform, but I’ve since come around to realise that they are just against development full stop. Things are rarely ever anywhere near that white and black. They don’t seem to consider other mitigating aspects that militate for a project.
Also, they couldn’t even be bothered to inflate the ears of that poor elephant.
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La solution, selon les nouveaux experts en transport de l’Est de Montréal qui vont aller secourir ces malheureux, c’est un tramway d’un bord à l’autre du Royaume-Uni. Les fleurs vont pousser au travers des rails, ça fera pas de bruit et tout le pays va chanter “God save the King” à chaque fois qu’il passera tellement ils seront heureux.
Je suis pas mal certain que même les chevreuils de Longueuil vont vouloir y déménager de leur plein gré, qui vont procréer et gambader en toute liberté autour du tram pas dangereux!
Bien sûr, pour sauver les coûts près de 70 000 passages à niveau sont prévus. Il devra aussi rouler à 10km/h pour pas déranger les voisins et ses sièges seront de véritables tape-culs car mal adaptés au transport régional mais c’est pas grave si c’est pour avoir du bonheur partout où il passe!
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Vive le code source pour lire les textes malgré le paywall
Siemens plans to add a U.S. rail manufacturing facility in central New York to make bullet trains for Brightline West’s railway connecting Las Vegas to Los Angeles, calling it the country’s first such factory dedicated to producing high-speed trains.
The company said today it’s investing $60 million in the Horseheads, New York plant which is expected to employ about 300 people when it opens in 2026. It will be used to assemble American Pioneer 220 electric trains, a vehicle based on a model Siemens already builds in Europe, that’s capable of running at up to 220 miles per hour. Deliveries are likely to start in 2027.
Texte complet : The U.S is getting its first electric train factory
Siemens plans to add a U.S. rail manufacturing facility in central New York to make bullet trains for Brightline West’s railway connecting Las Vegas to Los Angeles, calling it the country’s first such factory dedicated to producing high-speed trains.
The company said today it’s investing $60 million in the Horseheads, New York plant which is expected to employ about 300 people when it opens in 2026. It will be used to assemble American Pioneer 220 electric trains, a vehicle based on a model Siemens already builds in Europe, that’s capable of running at up to 220 miles per hour. Deliveries are likely to start in 2027.
While the diesel trains it currently makes for Brightline, Amtrak and Canada’s Via Rail at a plant in Sacramento, California, are push-pull models, “this is a true high-speed train. It's completely powered – like all-wheel drive all the way through, from the engine to the passenger cars,” Marc Buncher, president and CEO of Siemens’s North American mobility unit, told Forbes. Additionally, “this is a full wide-body train, meaning that a wheelchair can go up and down the aisle freely.”
The new plant, Siemens's third rail production facility in the U.S., comes as the Biden Administration continues its push to get high-speed trains up and running in one of the few advanced nations that doesn’t have them. The Brightline West project, which received a $3 billion federal grant created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, marked the start of construction in April. The $12 billion project created by billionaire investor Wes Edens is to begin operating between Las Vegas and suburban Los Angeles by 2028.
Aside from the speed, the trains will also include a new feature for West Coast passengers: a dedicated “party car” with a full lounge and bar, Buncher said. Siemens will also supply the electric power system for Brightline West.
The Siemens trains will be built with a dedicated "party" car with a full lounge and bar area.
Brightline West, Siemens
Alstom, a rival European manufacturer, makes trains in New York for Amtrak’s Acela line, currently the fastest passenger railway in the U.S., though that model is more similar to the version Siemens supplies to Brightline’s Florida system, which operates between Miami and Orlando at speeds of up to 125 mph, according to Buncher.
Both Siemens and Alstom are competing to win a contract to supply bullet trains to California’s High-Speed Rail Authority, which hopes to open its first segment in the early 2030s. If Siemens were to get that contract, the new New York plant could potentially make bullet trains for California as well.
“We have yet to make a decision regarding production location or submitted our proposal for California High Speed Rail, but look forward to doing so soon,” Buncher said. “My hopes are high. I feel like we've got a great train.”
Between its Sacramento factory, a new facility that’s opening in Lexington, North Carolina, to make passenger cars and the Horseheads factory, Siemens will have a broader capability to supply potential customers like California and other future high-speed rail lines. “We've got a little bit of flexibility about what we do, whereas in the past we never had any flexibility.”
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J’utilise https://12ft.io/ pour contourner les paywalls de plein de sites.
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Thanks vous deux!
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My PiHole kills most ads, but paywalls to legit news stories are shit for real.
Haha! J’utilise juste le lecteur intégré à Safari ou Firefox. Ça m’épargne aussi tous les popups publicitaires.
I personally use this extension to bypass paywall
Works wonderfully
Additionally in the update coming September 16th, there is a new built in “Hide Distracting Items” feature which can remove the popups. I use it to stop telling Google to make me switch to Chrome
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Oooh; I was aware of that feature, but I thought it was slated for iOS 18.1.
I have banned all Google services (bar YouTube by lack of alternatives). So I have not seen their “Get Chrome” banners since 2010-ish?
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I can’t stand Safari so I use Chrome, but at home I’m behind a Pihole which blocks a lot of crap. I have it set fairly liberally, though, so sometimes I have to blacklist on the fly. I think I’ll set up a VPN tunnel to it (I’ve been with TorGuard for almost a decade) so I can enjoy private browsing outside my home.
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Pendant ce temps, au Japon !
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Vidéo de la chaîne City Beautiful sur la Grande station centrale de San Francisco
C’est beau, c’est vide et c’est commandité par Salesforce qui a des tours à bureaux dans le secteur
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Sydney’s new $21.6 billion metro line is encouraging more people to ditch the car for public transport while easing pressure on busy heavy rail stations, which have had falls of up to 40 per cent in commuters passing through ticket gates.
New figures show almost 21,000 fewer commuters passed through North Sydney station’s gates on average each Wednesday – a 40 per cent fall to 30,620 people – in the four weeks after the city-section of the M1 metro rail line between Chatswood and Sydenham opened on August 19.
Commuters pass through the new Victoria Cross metro station’s ticket gates. CREDIT: KATE GERAGHTY
The new Victoria Cross metro station in North Sydney averaged 29,665 people entering or exiting on Wednesdays, which is typically the busiest day for travel as more people opt to work in the office instead of at home.
While entries and exits at North Sydney station fell considerably, the combined numbers for it and Victoria Cross show that thousands more people chose heavy rail or metro to travel to and from their destination – a trend that was replicated at stations in the central city.
Here, we would call this cannibalization, but elsewhere in the world it’s just called increasing the offer, making it easier for people to get around.
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It’s the same thing with the RER E in Paris that is build in part to relive the RER A line I know the situation is quite different from Montreal, but add a good development around stations in the east and the fact that people start to go back to work more and more the green line would be quickly saturated. This argument is really ridiculous and is only possible because of the financial pressure that we put on public transit agencies that need to fight for the tiny funds that they receive as well as be sure to maximise the ridership on each lines. I know it’s farfetch but I really think that in the next five-ten years we will see the revival of the Rem de l’Est in one form or another because the project just make sense to serve the East of Montreal while being cost effective and offer fast service to downtown.
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