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‘There is no great master plan’: anxiety as UK homes, roads and railways sink into the sea https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/23/uk-homes-roads-railways-sink-into-the-sea

from my link log —
The secrets of the shinkansen.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-behind-japans-railways
saved 2026-04-14

The secrets of the shinkansen
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.

Extreme heat is “pushing infrastructure beyond its design limits”, the EEA says.
Going forward, European governments need to carry out dramatic upgrades to create climate resilient infrastructure at a much faster pace.
This month’s heatwave has laid bare the urgency of this, scientists say.
“Roads, railways, energy systems, and buildings must be redesigned or retrofitted to withstand higher temperatures,” the EEA said.
Climate considerations must be at the centre of ur…

This is why Europe was so fatally unprepared for the June heatwave
Europe’s hottest ever June has laid bare the failures of successive governments across the continent to prepare for extreme heat. Now, scientists say, we have reached the point where climate change is having a severe impact on daily life. Alex Croft reports

Well, the state of the German railways is poor, so there’s no shortage of schadenfreude from abroad. But at least in Germany there’s a timetable with trains running at least every hour on most routes.
https://www.lemonde.fr/internatio…

Pourquoi les trains allemands n’arrivent plus jamais à l’heure
Retards quasi systématiques, annulations… le réseau ferroviaire allemand s’est dégradé depuis vingt ans, au point que la compagnie Deutsche Bahn devient un sujet d’embarras national.

You know those complex economic #boardgames with loans & company takeovers that are about railways? 18XX series & also others?
In 100 years, I bet people will be playing similarly convoluted games loosely based on OpenAI/Anthropic/NVIDIA/Grok/Oracle/SoftBank et al
PS: <3 those boardgames & their communities

Just realised that installing #solar panels as roofs over motorways and railways would not only aid in climate protection, but might actually be a #DualUse technology.
In #Ukraine, russian drones…

#OTD 2014 Cross-border rail @ Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
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