We have this speed limit in the Netherlands, mostly in areas with housing. It doesn't really affect busses because they stay on the bigger roads that are 50 kmh (about 31 mph). In my opinion it's fine to drive 20 mph on the more local roads, as long as there are collector roads where you can go a bit faster.

I suppose, except happy hour gives it a bit more of a positive spin. People like getting discount way more than having to pay more. They could've definitely handled this one better.

Also, having people pay more at peak hours is potentially going to shift when people start drinking. Day drinkers will most likely become more common that way.

Looks pretty cool, it's interesting to see how fast drones have developed in the last 10 years

Sounds like a nice concept, I wish we had something like that here. And you might think trains run on time but there's actually quite a lot of delays recently. Because our network is relatively small and almost everything passes through Utrecht all it takes is 1 minor disruption somewhere around there and it's mayhem.

Oh I fully agree with you, it's just that it doesn't seem like they invest much in public transport. It feels like you hear more about lines closing down and capacity on the line going down than new lines being created.

That's because NS is trying to cheap out on things for some reason. You keep hearing about them removing trains from the schedule or shortening them.

Thanks for the link, I never had a look at that before. If I look at my car, the variable costs per km (without the fuel) are €0,15 per km. The fixed costs are only interesting if you don't have a car and are looking at getting one, I have to pay those costs regardless of whether I leave it at home or not. That means that taking the car in my example above would add another €18 which does change things a little bit.

However, my main point was that people would flock to public transport if they were using the prices you sometimes see in other countries. For example, in Italy it costs me around €10 to get a return ticket from Florence to Pisa. The trains are slightly less fancy of course but they're still very serviceable. If they could make it so you pay maybe €30 for a return ticket from Eindhoven to Amsterdam, it would make it a lot more enticing to take the train.

I like the way most city centers are set up but I think public transport coverage should be improved in most places before the government starts trying to push people out of their cars. My local municipality is trying the same thing and making the same mistake, they're not improving public transport but they are trying to discourage people from coming by car. How is that supposed to work if you can't even get there properly if you live in a part of town that either has no connection or it takes you 3 to 4 times as long as it would take you by car to take the bus?

If only our public transport was affordable. We pay way more than other European countries (besides maybe Germany and the Scandinavian countries), especially when you consider how little distance you're really travelling. As an example, to get from Eindhoven central station to Amsterdam central station you take 1 train, it takes you 1 hour and 20 minutes and you pay €22,70 for a one way ticket. If we're looking at distance, this is about 120 km. This means that to get there and go back home you pay €45,40.

If you travel by yourself you can argue that it's worth it to take the train there since parking + fuel isn't that cheap here either. However, as soon as you have more than 1 person the car quickly becomes the cheaper option, even with parking included. As long as they don't solve this issue I don't see any success in their push to get people to use public transport. And I know the solution will probably be to make everything even more expensive but that's not going to help in the long run either...

I'm not sad that he's gone but I kinda hoped he'd take out Putin with him. Shame he didn't push on 2 months ago, he really seemed to have Putin by the balls at that point. Oh well, guess Putins time will still come at some point.

Also, how incredibly dumb of them to put the entire leadership group of their mercenary army in 1 plane. Made them a real nice target for Putin to hit.

Has it been confirmed that he was one of the victims? From what I could see I the news here they haven't found his body yet.

It's the standard Blizzard approach to do that, they used to do the same thing in WoW. I hope they do look at how many times someone's done it. If they've only done it once (or maybe twice), maybe just give them a warning. If more, then consider banning them.