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I may be wrong here, but I think purple was going to be the colour when it was still gonna be called "crossrail"?

There is such a thing as "light rail" though. Lighter tracks, lighter trains, and cheaper construction. Also if you want small trains, just look at the UK. Normal trains here are m…

I have a few nitpicks... Making train tunnels cheaper by making them smaller is not a new idea. it is a very old idea. Have a look at the deep level tube lines of the London underg…

For some lines that go above ground (Northern, Jubilee, Central), the driver sometimes had to put it into manual mode to compensate for the worse breaking when it's raining outside…

Well in the UK the subjects you select is very closely tied to which University you can go to. Some universities require maths and will not accept people who haven't done it (somet…

In my case, I have two card from one bank has sort code and account number. I also have one card from a different bank has none of that.

In the UK the details needed to transfer money into an account are on most bank cards (Account Number and Sort Code), so that's enough identifying info. That would also mean someon…

This font reminds me a lot of "Rail Alphabet" which is a font designed by British Rail in the 60s which was used to railway signs and also in hospitals. Newer fonts are starting to…

It seems to be a diesel locomotive pulling passenger carriages (almost certainly ones that were obsolete at the time). It's still a pretty impressive way to show how strong they ar…

This concept is not new at all, From what I understand the tunnel sizes proposed are barely bigger than the London Underground "tube" tunnels. (Glasgow's subway has even smaller tu…

On old British rail trains, commuter trains had many doors, I think on each side there was a door for each pair of row of seats? There was also no door lock, so people could start …

In the UK, ballots are still done with pen and paper. You put a cross in one of the labelled squares and fold the paper, then drop it into the ballot box. Also, while the guideline…

The trains in the narrow tunnels push air around, so recent stuff like full height platform screen doors help improve conditions (allowing platforms to be air conditioned without h…

IIRC the main heat source is the breaking of the trains combined with the high frequency of them. I suspect that using many cars will still release a lot of heat into the tunnels.

There are trains that run in narrow tunnels in London (12 feet wide I think?). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Why_London_Undergrou...

The uploader can't do anything short of paying money to keep the images up. They could move them, but that is still link rot. I would help with archiving stuff, but I don't have th…

As I mentioned in another comment thread (is that the term used here?) about this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354066 ), I can understand why they want to limit the fre…

Well... It would have been nice if they warned people earlier because it is quite a big thing to happen. A possible reason why someone running a website should care about keeping s…

Huh... Maybe I misread, either way, its a similar sort of concept, and still ends with deletion.

It says that they will be "actively deleted", which doesn't sound like they're going to be hidden. EDIT: correction, it says they'll first be hidden for about a month, then they wi…

While I understand why they are adding a limit, the concept of just deleting the photos over the 1000 limit just unsettles me, and will almost certainly cause link rot, which is bo…

From what I understand, it's not exactly easy for an indivual to "fix". From my limited knowledge about the US economy, it's not easy to get a well paying job quickly, the examples…

Ah, then in that case, it's not against the GDPR, but if it was accessible from the EU, then it would be. In a way, this is the sort of thing the GDPR is designed to prevent.

I am not fully sure about this, but it might be against the GDPR? From what I understand you aren't allowed to block someone if they opt out of non-essential stuff. However the GDP…

https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/cctv/ at least in the UK, you can request people who have CCTV footage of you, and also note that people have to delete CCTV when they no longe…