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tom_andraszek

@tom_andraszek@mastodon.social

A software developer believing in livable cities and livable planet. Not investing in fossil fuels. Vegetarian. No longer flying for pleasure or work. Solar panels, heat pump home. E-bike, bus, train, tram ๐Ÿ’š
Gold Coast, Australia. My home's walk score is 4/100: car dependent. We own one small EV, which is used mainly by my wife for commuting to work, shopping, etc.
The time to use sunlight reflection methods (SRM) is now.

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kyonshi, to random
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so a substitute teacher somehow thought it was a good idea to ask my kid's class what their thought about their home country were. They had to write down 4 things.

I am not sure she expected the results, my son's friend (6yo), the little tiny shy mouse that he is, managed to sum it up with: *broken pavement
*dirty streets
*ugly buildings
*people stealing numberplates and just bribing their way out of trouble

good lord, that kid is a natural born cynic if I have ever seen one.

tom_andraszek,
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@kyonshi - ลรณdลบ has/had a bad reputation in Poland. I lived in or near Warsaw for 30 years and I only visited ลรณdลบ last year... and I liked it. More woonerfs, trams and renovated buildings and ลรณdลบ will be great.

https://tandrasz.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-trip-to-spend-bit-of-time-with-mama-7.html

tom_andraszek, to brisbane
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After watching the latest, excellent @notjustbikes video about the introduction of even more 30 km/h streets in Amsterdam, this one by Chris Cox from Brisbane, feels like it could be an addendum.

The Brisbane Times reporter Felicity Caldwell is a legend.

https://youtu.be/ioQSfaPWa_w

kravietz, to Bulgaria
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Unemployment in in 2004 and 2024 - this massive blue hole (>17.5% unemployment) that disappeared over the 20 years is and East . What happened in the meantime was Poland joining the common market of the European Union.

tom_andraszek,
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@kravietz - and Slovakia

tom_andraszek, to goldcoast
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My morning Gold Coast train was cancelled. The next one in 30 minutes. Lots of high school students will be late for school today.
No point taking the 725 bus as it takes 54 minutes to go from Coomera to Helensvale vs 5 minutes by train. The TX7 bus is more direct, but it doesn't run that early, and it still takes 47 minutes.

The almost direct TX7 bus route.

tom_andraszek,
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@timrichards - from the Coomera station (north Gold Coast), it is 15 minutes, or better (there are a few extra trains here and there): towards Brisbane from 6am to 8am, and towards Gold Coast from about 4:30pm to 8pm. The timetable is designed for people going to Brisbane in the morning and coming back in the afternoon. Going in the other direction, or outside the peak = 30 minute frequency.

tom_andraszek,
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@timrichards - it's a weird situation when the only rail line in a city pop. 640k, which could be the backbone of public transport in that city as it runs most of the length of the city, with speeds up to 140 km/h (easily beats cars on M1), is primarily used as a commute line to a city 66 km to the north. Meanwhile, public transport mode share in Gold Coast was under 5% the last time I checked.

capntransit, to random
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RT @BethO: When I worked at USDOT, I used to regularly have meetings with school districts that built their schools like this only to realize they couldn't possibly afford to bus their students to their new school.

tom_andraszek,
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@capntransit - to me bussing costs seem a secondary problem here... this looks like a terrible location for a school (or a shop, or even a prison), because of air pollution and road noise, on the account of being inside an off ramp...

elCelio, to Ukraine Italian
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of the tracking aid to ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Allocations as a percentage of GDP (2021) and per capita.
(contributions by institutions is distributed among member states)

%GDP
1๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช: 1,7%
2๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ: 1,6%
3๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น: 1,4%
4๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป: 1,3%
5๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ: 0,9%
6๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ: 0,9%
7๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ: 0,8%

โ‚ฌ per capita
1๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ: 927โ‚ฌ
2๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ: 429โ‚ฌ
3๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช: 426โ‚ฌ
4๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ: 417โ‚ฌ
5๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช: 360โ‚ฌ
6๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ: 302โ‚ฌ
7๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น: 269โ‚ฌ

tom_andraszek,
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@elCelio - take these with a grain of salt. The Kiel's number for military aid to Ukraine by Poland is 1/3 of the actual number based on the recent statement by Polish FM Sikorski. Similar situation may apply to other countries. We will know true numbers when the war ends.

kravietz, to poland
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government aid to amounted to $9 billion in the first two years of the war - minister of foreign affairs Radek Sikorski. The number is publicly disclosed for the first time and it does not include the support for Ukrainian refugees granted inside Poland.

tom_andraszek,
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@kravietz - now, if this could make way to the Kiel's Institute stats which everyone uses and which show about 1/3 of this number, assuming we are comparing apples to apples...

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