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A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

That is a fcuking disgrace

Not really, it has moved from 1920 being reliant on Trains and relatively no roads for cars to motorways and decent secondary roads including dual carriageways.

Cars are embedded into culture because of the freedoms they give. Very few people with cars would leave it behind to travel rail, apart from occasional novelty.

And you're not going to have high speed lines due to cost from Limerick to Galway to Letterkenny. We've moved on.

Alternative take:- Is this an answer to 'What have the Brits ever done for us?'

:pac:

yagan

Another thing to remember about railways was that they were mostly private enterprises whose primary revenue was derived not from passengers but from cargo.

Buses were far more adaptable for passenger use providing a far more comprehensive service than trains.

Padre_Pio

Map of polar bear distribution

The J Stands for Jay

Amirani wrote: »

They're used by pretty much every person in the country every day, and they provide lots of employment; just not by people working on-site.

They should be built with solar panel rooves, with wind turbines sticking out of them (for all I know, they could be already). With the size of them, it seems like a quick win from a cost and sustainability pov.

Seth Brundle

McGaggs wrote: »

They should be built with solar panel rooves, with wind turbines sticking out of them (for all I know, they could be already). With the size of them, it seems like a quick win from a cost and sustainability pov.

That would make a miniscule dent in their energy consumption.
I work near a number of them. The roofs are currently covered with air-con units and vents.
This is a Microsoft centre but there are many others in that area...
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3245085,-6.4544501,141m/data=!3m1!1e3

Gloomtastic!

After the bank bailout, wasn't there a competition, sponsored by the Govt., for the best business idea to bring new employment. Data centres was the winning idea I seem to remember. :rolleyes:

magicbastarder

i work for a company that runs a fairly large one.
the backup generators to supply it run to 6MW.

cnocbui

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Its nothing to do with preference for cars. The train from Nenagh is useless for commuters. It takes an hour to get to Limerick Junction or Ballybrophy (twice as long as a car) because the train goes at 25mph, and by then it's nearly 9am anyway, and you're still in Ballybrophy or on the edge of Co. Limerick.

It costs as much to run a car anyway. It's like they're trying to turn customers away.

Very few of the world's rail services are profitable. I don't get the love for them. Outdated victorian technology for which there are better options. You need very high population densities and passenger flows before they become a superior choice, like the London underground.

Victor

cnocbui wrote: »

Very few of the world's rail services are profitable.

This is on an accounting basis. Most roads are also loss making. Airlines pay a lot less tax than they should.d

On an economic basis, things shift considerably. Each train means thousands of people don't need to spend large amounts of money on cars.

Victor

Victor wrote: »

This is on an accounting basis.

What's the cost of infrastructure plus variable costs per passenger. Roads are going to be more cost effective. Pollution is a different matter.

cdeb

Aaaannyway

Map of where photos are taken in the world -

cdeb

cdeb wrote: »

Aaaannyway

Map of where photos are taken in the world -

Why would Germany be so popular?

Gregor Samsa

It's probably just based on geotag info on Flickr or wherever. Could be Germans just sitting in their houses taking photos of each-other, as opposed to people going out of their way to take photos of a particular landmark or feature.

Edit: if the map is from the sightsmap.com site as linked below, then it's based on data from a photo sharing service called Panoramio that is no longer in operation.

Badly Drunk Boy

www.sightsmap.com

Squeeonline

It's about 90% also a population density map since so many photos are taken in cities.

chewed

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

www.sightsmap.com

You can clearly make out Cliffs of Moher and Giant's Causeway!

BonnieSituation

And as always, there's an xkcd for that:



https://xkcd.com/1138/

MY BAD

Strava heatmap for runners in Ireland.

KevRossi

chewed wrote: »

You can clearly make out Cliffs of Moher and Giant's Causeway!

You can also make out Carrick-on-Shannon, pop. 4,000. Bigger towns don't have the same brightness. This is possibly due to the amount of photos taken and uploaded of people on stags and hens. It's one of the most popular towns in Ireland for it and plenty of photos end up on social media or are shared around.

retalivity

MY BAD wrote: »

Strava heatmap for runners in Ireland.

For completeness, here's the cycling one

magicbastarder

i'd say half the brightness on the mamore gap in inishowen is just from ronan mclaughlin.

Peregrine

This could be out of date.

Has anyone got the data for Kosovo?

New Home

It's incorrect. What about pregnant women? Or people with two heads? :pac:

Peregrine

Peregrine wrote: »

This could be out of date.

Has anyone got the data for Kosovo?

what does this mean?

Padre_Pio

bubblypop wrote: »

what does this mean?

How many people per people :pac:

cdeb

Padre_Pio

Padre_Pio wrote: »

How many people per people :pac:

I thought I was missing something!

countries by what they call Finland

not what the Finnish do anyway!

LarryGraham

Each square represents 500k people.

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/massive-world-map-redrawn-based-country-populations/

Professor Moriarty

bubblypop wrote: »

countries by what they call Finland

not what the Finnish do anyway!

Why is there a white line down the centre of Ireland?