Even if ski resorts followed every sustainable practice stringently it wouldn’t change much, wouldn’t it? It’s not like ski resorts are the drivers of climate change, or even that climate change is really what causes ski resorts to close.
This is a weird paper. Optimizing sustainability won't save your resort.
A few other commenters are complaining about lack of snow (climate change), but the real drivers are fundamentals (e.g. cost of leasing protected forests or grooming) and trends like younger generations wanting ski weekends over ski weeks. If you can't stay relevant, you perish.
Probably at least some, because most tools’ documentation are not going to be in your language – at least that’s how it is here in Japan. That said plenty of Japanese engineers who have very low English skill.
That's because they still haven't eliminated the crossing points.
They need to turn every road or pedestrian crossing into an underpass or overpass, or eliminate it. They've started on this process, but it will take many years.
I live a block away from a train crossing for a track that does a lot of local refinery transfers and occasional has freight. It has the normal old style crossing with an arm on each side with lights, a loud bell, and trains required to signal with horn. There are 8 road crossings in a short distance so each train is signals 8 times nearby.
The requirements for a no-signal crossing is essentially a pedestrian gate. The quote the city has for each crossing was if I remember right 1.5 million usd. And you’d need to replace many of them. The city doesn’t want to prioritize that much money. (FWIW I agree)
The worst thing is we have under utilized tracks going all over the region and no commuter train service. Even with the rail expansion prior to the Olympics (I’m near Los Angeles), the commuter rail is only being extended to the northern most edge of the city.
Neighbors have been fighting against commuter rail every step of the way. I’ll say attending local govt and rail proposal meetings is at once interesting, impressive at what some groups are trying to achieve and disturbing at the lengths people go to prevent change.
Trains don't honk in much of Europe when approaching a gated crossing.
The lights and barriers are assumed to be sufficient. Within cities, there may well be CCTV cameras (pointing only at the crossing) so the signal controllers can check the crossing is clear.
I grew up in a 600,000 inhabitants city in Germany. They got EMUs in the 1930s. When they got the next generation in the 1970s all level crossings were replaced.
So California, one of the forerunners in the US, seems to be roughly 90 years behind. Depends on your age whether you'll be able to enjoy a quiet train trip during your lifetime. </sarcasm>
In 1930s California’s population boom had just started. There were 5 million people in the state, split between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Both cities had electric trams, but the demand for regional rail wasn’t high enough to electrify it.
Even today it’s not uncommon to de-electrify lower-volume rights of way.
Personally I prefer how PandaCSS does it - similar end result with atomic css at compile time but it just lets you write your styles as readable objects instead of as insane strings.
I’ve been preaching something similar for a while - you get good (and faster) at what you practice, so if you practice writing bad code you’ll get good at writing bad code. If you practice writing good code (by whatever your standard of good is), you’ll get good at that and it will come out faster and more naturally.
If you're wondering like I was why he is able to tweet from prison, this article explains that he's dictating tweets via phone to his family, and they are sending back comments to him via mail. [1]
They don’t care about things that I care about, including everything the author talked about, and also things like allowing whitespace-ignore on diffs to be set on by default in a repo or per user - an issue that’s been open for half a decade now.
(Whitespace is just noise in a typescript repo with automatic formatting)
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