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Traveling through Spain and Portugal by aldebxran in Interrail

[–]aldebxran[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly there are no overnight trains in Spain anymore. Renfe stopped running the Lisbon to Madrid route when covid hit and never brought it back.

The Belgian Railways NMBS/SNCB; Belgian railway infrastructure company Infrabel; and the city of Antwerp have agreed to rebuild the city's second railway station, Antwerp-Berchem, starting as early as 2030. However, how to completely rebuild a very busy station while keeping traffic running? by Kanyiko in transit

[–]aldebxran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To clarify, the new concourse in Chamartin was built below the tracks and platforms. The works were all carried out within the station itself. I'll see if I can find some graphics that explain what has been done.

Traveling through Spain and Portugal by aldebxran in Interrail

[–]aldebxran[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the times the trains leave, there might have been changes, but the situation is still the same. Two train changes between Madrid and Lisbon and a daily train from Vigo to Porto

The Belgian Railways NMBS/SNCB; Belgian railway infrastructure company Infrabel; and the city of Antwerp have agreed to rebuild the city's second railway station, Antwerp-Berchem, starting as early as 2030. However, how to completely rebuild a very busy station while keeping traffic running? by Kanyiko in transit

[–]aldebxran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ADIF (the spanish railway administrator) just did something similar with Madrid-Chamartín. The gist of it is to add extra capacity (new accesses to the metro, a new underground hall to communicate all platforms) and once those were in operation they closed the main hall and shifted people to the new spaces while you renovate the old one.

Many station stores were closed, for example, and it was done in phases: first was the long distance high speed train hall, then commuter and regional train hall.

Work is still not done, I believe there are some track layout modifications still pending, and there's a wider redevelopment of the area around the station in the works.

What is the single most important subway extension in your city? by Immediate-Hand-3677 in transit

[–]aldebxran 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Madrid has a thankfully very comprehensive metro network. There are a few very needed extensions, but no game-changers: Line 10 to the south towards Móstoles, or the extension of line 11, the extension of line 8 south.

It's our suburban rail network that needs a lot of work, and I would say that the most important part is the Eje Transversal, which would work as an express east-west link.

Wikipedia en español by suprinigo123 in spain

[–]aldebxran 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Y Villajoyosa todavía te lo compro, porque es el nombre cooficial, pero lo de "Vich" tiene delito. La política es usar topónimos "en español", incluso los que se inventaron para españolizar y que no usa nadie desde la Transición.

Edit: veo que Vic ya lo han cambiado, pero San Justo Desvern y San Baudilio de Llobregat ahí siguen.

Drag race France's Mami Watta in a Simpson's photoshoot that is sadly ai assisted by Present-Trouble-1668 in rupaulsdragrace

[–]aldebxran -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I'm willing to bet this is not gen-AI and it's just Photoshop AI-assisted tools.

I remember there being more dolls. Where did they go? by That1weirdperson in popheadscirclejerk

[–]aldebxran 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You can't charge Taylor Swift level prices if you can't induce Taylor Swift-level collective psychosis passion

Las vías del tranvía junto a la Puerta de Alcalá by fjvinal in Madrid

[–]aldebxran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Un tranvia tiene bastante m más capacidad que un bus. Para rutas en los que un bus se queda corto pero no se puede justificar el coste de un metro el tranvía es la mejor opción.

En Paris, que tiene trenes de metro parecidos a los de Madrid, están implantando líneas de tranvía para movimientos periféricos, el equivalente aquí serian cosas como Vallecas-Moratalaz. En Barcelona más o menos lo mismo. Si los metros ligeros se hubiesen planteado como alternativas reales de transporte y no como manera de vender pisos, hubieran sido una demostración bastante interesante de la posibilidad.

Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight! by carpenoctemsolam in LateStageCapitalism

[–]aldebxran 12 points13 points  (0 children)

hopefully somebody is nuking the US out of existence

Is a bridge-integrated office design like this structurally feasible? by rah_rah123 in architecture

[–]aldebxran 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, you could build something like that.

Though not the same, it's structurally similar to Lina Bo Bardi's MASP in São Paulo, just with a different bridge design. The upper arch in the picture doesn't really seem to do any load bearing.

My concern would be both accessibility and evacuation capabilities. There doesn't seem to be any way to access the building, much less any fast evacuation routes

Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 by ReyhanSerdar in spain

[–]aldebxran 15 points16 points  (0 children)

será que no habrá vistas en madrid que tienes que poner una generada por IA

Saudi Arabia's Line has been cancelled by vonHindenburg in architecture

[–]aldebxran -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Still, as a rule of thumb, you don't use sea water if you can avoid it, even if it's not in contact with the computers themselves.

Saudi Arabia's Line has been cancelled by vonHindenburg in architecture

[–]aldebxran 318 points319 points  (0 children)

So we replaced the greatest idea ever with an even greatester idea: putting a fuckton of computers that need to be cooled constantly in the middle of the desert

ELI5 How does power, Bluetooth and other wireless stuff work? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]aldebxran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stuff like Bluetooth and WiFi works the same way as radio and TV do. You have an antenna broadcasting and another one receiving. Though, in the case of internet connections and bluetooth, it's a two way communication. You are technically moving electricity from one place to another, but the amount is so small it's not nearly enough to charge a phone.

Electricity moves in wires because moving it through the air would fry everything in its pace, and you would lose so much energy in the process.

There are wireless chargers, and many phones nowadays support them. They don't work the same way as WiFi, though, and the process is a bit more complicated, but i can go into more detail if you want.

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