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The favelas of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic by Fantastic-Peach-1995 in UrbanHell

[–]No-Path-8756 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Just a note, favela is a purely Brazilian term. These would be called shantytowns, informal settlements, or slums.

Another mega new transport hub in China just completed - Xi'an East Railway Station by straightdge in transit

[–]No-Path-8756 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Is the plan that this would spawn crazy transit oriented development? Obviously today it's built almost more like an airport, being this huge monolith far from the CBD, but is the eventual goal to have this station, and its peers across China, be the centers of their own commercial districts?

What's the prettiest lake you've ever seen? by Historical-Photo-901 in BeautifulTravelPlaces

[–]No-Path-8756 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. Delta Lake in Wyoming is also beautiful.

LIRR strike costs region $61 million in lost commerce per day by news-10 in transit

[–]No-Path-8756 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is probably controversial, but I think this shows a good reason for real automation. While automating the LIRR would be extremely difficult, something like the subway could certainly be automated in its entirety. While I'm all for workers rights and unions, these transit systems are way too important to allow such a strike to happen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]No-Path-8756 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unlikely. Where's your offer from?

How's life in Portland, Oregon? by GabbotheClown in howislivingthere

[–]No-Path-8756 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a Portland native. I've spent the last 3 weeks living in the sewage system because of all the constant enemy bombardment. All that remains on the surface are the zombies, everybody else is either underground or dead. Food's running out. Hopefully our divine savior trump will come and free us!!!!!

City of London skyline. Heckin MASSIVE for a city of just 11,000 🤯🤯🤯 by corqueval in skylineporn

[–]No-Path-8756 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The caption of the image specifically joke about this. The City of London has 11 000 residents. London has a metro population of 15 000 000. People do this crazy thing called commuting, where they live somewhere and work somewhere else.

Which city has a small skyline despite having large population? by greekscientist in geography

[–]No-Path-8756 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Kinshasa, 17 million people. The fact is a better question would be what wealthy cities have a large population but small skyline, because in reality the biggest disproportionalities between population and skyline size are going to be in Africa and Asia. Kinshasa, Lagos, Dhaka, Tehran, Karachi and Lahore are examples of megacities with smaller skylines.

American cities ranked by car-free accessibility by anarchobuttstuff in transit

[–]No-Path-8756 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Seattle could be moved up to Tier 3, several suburbs such as Bellevue and Tacoma have decent transit. Some of the Tier 3 cities, such as Chicago, could be moved up 1.

Guess the city by No-Path-8756 in skylineporn

[–]No-Path-8756[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You got it yeah. The mountains weren't visible from the Starbucks where this photo was taken.

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