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kleinbl00  ·  3453 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London is changing

I'd forgotten about the Green Belt. And I know that British Rail has really been sucking hard; as I recall, the rates have gone up like tenfold over the past 20 years. The last time I was in London - which was in the early '90s - our hosts basically figured they could accomplish exactly one task in London on any given day. Which, fuck - beats Los Angeles. And i realized from all my maps yesterday that it is legitimately as far from Seattle to Vancouver as it is from Ventura to Riverside.





veen  ·  3453 days ago  ·  link  ·  

British rail is no more. They decided to privatize it and cut it up in pieces, giving every piece to other operators. It didn't go down well. Just look this (cartographic) mess:

kleinbl00  ·  3452 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, shit. They're in Amtrak Hell now.