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I would definitely agree that serious speeding seems to happen much less than in the past. It's rare, at least round here in the SW, to get people flying past at 100+. I went to London via M5/M4 and back via the M3, and not very much overtook at all, and I don't think I went much over (GPS) 75...

Of course, but those are tiny, tiny parts of the road network. The vast majority of our roads are post-1850 or thereabouts, and many of them are perfectly wide enough to run articulated lorries along so they are wide enough for articulated buses too

Medieval? Really? What proportion of the UK road network looks the same as it did in 1500?

Which is nonsense as they work in places like Florence which are hardly Texas

There's no such thing. As they are operating in Belfast right now and on order for Birmingham. They weren't helped by the lies told by the country's worst liar, but they aren't banned

I have often thought that trams would work well in Brighton - a route from the universities into the centre and then west into Hove and beyond - lots of dense housing, and mostly unusually wide streets

I don't see any reason it would be cheaper, it's only a couple of miles different. You can get very good prices for Heathrow-Paddington-SW journeys now, last time I did that it was about £3 extra including HEX compared to a ticket from Paddington. Contrary to certain opinions, trains from...

No, they have moved on to Teslas

You can get one day and three day unlimited cards covering the LRT/MRT from ticket machines, you have to pay for the card which was about £4 last time I was there, and then add the ticket on, like an oyster card. The KTMB services aren't included though

There's a Wikipedia page with a map of which countries run on each side https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-track_railway

Yes it is. The models show warmer, wetter winters and increased chances of hotter summers. It's been quite well publicised.

I'm not a fan of how Renfe operate, but would any railway which insists on reservations sell a ticket like this?

That is concerned with hurricanes in the tropics. What is the UK relevance? There are plenty of research papers which show that the intensity of rainfall is increasing compared to long term averages e.g. this one It's also pretty obvious to anyone who has been around for a while with a mk1 eyeball

Definitely the first one

Don't lots of them already have foreign language options? I'm sure GWR ones do