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One thing I can tell about the experience is that it was in nowhere any less than the best Metros in the developed West.
This project will remain divisive, and in no way I intend on converting anyone. Skip.
Neither will its utility increase nor decrease by this Twitter cost-benefits blabbering.
What I am truly happy about is that Orangeline is owned and being used by those who need it the most.
The cars we use have a Heater & AC. The new ones also have a cabin filter against pollution. They harm everyone outside but user is safe inside. Then cars also cause congestion and accidents.
We don’t realise it while driving, but navigating spaces is important for everyone.
What's the implication?
— Ayesha Shahid (@ayesharshahid) January 17, 2021
Poverty has a KEY spatial dimension. If you are poor, you may not be able to reach the school and hospital you need. This is also why people live in katchi abadis or informal housing, if you can't afford to travel to jobs, you are out of luck.
We know that cars, which serve less than 20% of all trips, are bad for our cities. Yet they have been getting disproportionately higher share in budgets in the form of allocations for Road in Transport spending.
A mass transit project flips this equation.
There is also very real loss that construction works of the project caused, which, we, as bystanders, cannot fully understand.
We need to move to inclusive infrastructural planning, rather cold-hearted bureaucratic logic which dictates that who
The President of South Africa appeared on national TV to tell some lies in support of perpetuating destructive Covid malarkey. Out came the old chestnut that data support the effectiveness of past measures. Where is this magic data?
Similarly, that masks we are supposedly not wearing (though no data supports that allegation) have this magical property of preventing infection, again based on “data” that we are not privy to. Maskology.
He took the borked theory of asymptomatic transmission to a new level with the phrase “asymptomatic super-spreader events”.
The dodginess of the asymptomatic transmission theory is now common currency, for all with open eyes.
Remember that the reason you\u2019re wearing a diaper on yourself face and locked up at hone is because of fear of asymptomatic spread. Turns out - that\u2019s not a thing and we\u2019ve known that since January. pic.twitter.com/ebawhmG0z3
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) December 26, 2020
First off, it's revolting to see any mainstream politician spread what appear to be conspiracy theories about atrocities committed by the Assad regime in the Syrian war. In fact, to *volunteer* them. Unprompted. /1
I have a genuine question for people who support Laschet: Are you not bothered by his foreign policy views? Even Syria conspiracy theories aside, his views on Russia are deeply worrying to me. Do you happen to agree with him or do you just think other things are more important? https://t.co/22Xke53jgv
— Marcel Dirsus (@marceldirsus) January 14, 2021
I stopped counting the dozens of friends, colleagues, officials from around the world, but in particular, the Middle East, who have sent me his tweets over the past week. The common response from Berlin appears to be an uncomfortable "well, he's not a foreign policy guy..." /2
But he is! I think it's easy to underestimate the man and his jovial, slightly pudgy and self-deprecating persona. There's also a tendency in Berlin and outside to confuse regional politics (and accents!) for provincialism. But Laschet is from Aachen - in the heart of Europe. /3
His first job in politics was with Hans Stercken, then-chairman of the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee, in the tumultuous mid-late 80s. As a new member of Bundestag in 1994, he joined the committees for int development, EU affairs, and foreign affairs (as an alternate). /4
Some headlines refer to him as a "Merkel-loyalist". At least when I flipped thru his record from the 90s, I got a sense of a man with profound convictions: A passionate European. But also an early proponent of CDU-Greens rapprochement based on a shared moralistic worldview. /5
Most of Formost’s ships were built by China’s state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC).
CSSC is one of the top 10 defense groups in China.
\u201cMcConnell\u2019s marriage into the Chao family dynasty has coincided with a trajectory of ever-increasing personal profit for McConnell and the Chaos, as well as Chinese state business interests.\u201dhttps://t.co/g7HbYGbsZI
— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) December 16, 2020