Russian Railways: News

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Russia is preparing a new railway for the Northern Sea Route

This is old news, but the video is interesting. Russia is reviving the frozen project for rail links in Siberia that were planned
under Stalin. Scumbag, 5th column maggot Khruschev iced the project and stopped development of this important region
of Russia. Now the US is worried about Russia reviving the project. Which is a very good thing, since it means the
project is good for Russia to the point of boosting its global power.

This project provides hard transport links to the Yamal and its natural gas extraction activity. This project also will service
the North Sea Route by creating substantial port infrastructure.

Despite the difficult epidemic situation, the Russian Railways holding company maintains regular routes, ensuring stable transport links between the regions of Russia. The number of long-distance passenger trains is increasing by 2.2% (up to 596 pairs daily), including daytime trains on 49 routes (45 routes in 2020), double – Decker trains on 15 routes (13 routes in 2020).

In the new schedule, the number of rapid and high-speed trains will increase by 6%: it will increase to 401 and will make up almost 66.3% of the total number.

Taking into account demand, 27 pairs of new trains were added to the new schedule and 14 pairs of previously run trains were canceled, as well as the extension of existing routes is provided. This will allow passengers to choose new convenient travel options.

The total size of commuter traffic in the 2020/2021 schedule increased by 3% to 4,032 pairs, of which 488 pairs will be formed by Lastochka trains (in 2019/2020-434 pairs):
282 pairs - on the Moscow railway, 124 pairs – on the Oktyabrskaya railway, 23 pairs – on the Sverdlovsk railway, 33 pairs – on the Kaliningrad railway, 24 pairs-on the North Caucasus railway and 2 pairs – on the South Ural railway.

https://www.rzd.ru/ru/9284/page/3102?id=257931

moscow metro station i used a lot vs nyc subway station i use a lot



https://twitter.com/kazbek/status/1338610762072399877

Because America is so rich. Like most 3rd world banana republics. The only difference is that the US 1% are hyper rich.

If you hear some US bootlick mass media chirp about income inequality in Russia, consider what it is like in the USA. The
US income distribution is a (1/|x|)^n function (mirrored on the x-axis around 0) where n is a large number. It is limiting
to a delta function.

I used to go through Penn station and it's actually decent. Not as nice as the Moscow one.

But the homeless sleeping on the ground at the station was worst than the stations in New Delhi as example.

GarryB wrote:

moscow metro station i used a lot vs nyc subway station i use a lot

Wow... like comparing a high class well funded museum with City 17 after the alien invasion in Half Life...

Funny that. The western mind space is still occupied with grossly outdated stereotypes of "Russia" (which
they think is equivalent to the USSR). I would say that there is denial of the reality of modern Russia.
That is why those few westerners that went for the soccer World Cup were surprised by what the saw.

kvs wrote:

GarryB wrote:

moscow metro station i used a lot vs nyc subway station i use a lot

Wow... like comparing a high class well funded museum with City 17 after the alien invasion in Half Life...

Funny that.  The western mind space is still occupied with grossly outdated stereotypes of "Russia" (which
they think is equivalent to the USSR).   I would say that there is denial of the reality of modern Russia.
That is why those few westerners that went for the soccer World Cup were surprised by what the saw.

If they were surprised, it just means they were idiots and believed the propaganda.

magnumcromagnon wrote:

moscow metro station i used a lot vs nyc subway station i use a lot



https://twitter.com/kazbek/status/1338610762072399877

I know, i was shocked when i saw the metro stations in NY.

When i pointed that out to a friend living there, he just said thst it is normal as they run 24 a day and there is not much time to clean... bleargh...


I love to see the metro station in Moscow.

Truth to be told, the ones made in Krushov time are not as nice as the one made when Stalin was the boss. I mean, they are clean and functional, but they are "plain" metro stations. Most of those made under Stalin rules are pieces of art.

The volume of people using the Moscow metro is substantially larger than the New York metro.   In 2018
the ridership in Moscow was 2.5 billion and in New York it was about 1.7 billion.  The excuse that
the NY subway operates 24/7 is inane since it is not used at full load in the middle of the night.   Closing
it down for between 1 am and 5:30 am would not degrade its service.

New York simply does not have the budget allocated to properly maintain it. So where is all that vaunted
wealth?

kvs wrote:The volume of people using the Moscow metro is substantially larger than the New York metro.   In 2018
the ridership in Moscow was 2.5 billion and in New York it was about 1.7 billion.  The excuse that
the NY subway operates 24/7 is inane since it is not used at full load in the middle of the night.   Closing
it down for between 1 am and 5:30 am would not degrade its service.

New York simply does not have the budget allocated to properly maintain it.   So where is all that vaunted
wealth?

The Russian budget for 2021 is $289 billion (approximately). New York City's budget is $88 billion. NYC spends 30% of the entire country of Russia on a municipal budget and still has metros that look like crap.

Because the prize level is 5 to 10 times higher in Bidenland then in Russia. This has to do with "service" economy and, of course, corruption in the beacon of free markets, human rights and vote rigging... er, democracy.

calripson wrote:

kvs wrote:The volume of people using the Moscow metro is substantially larger than the New York metro.   In 2018
the ridership in Moscow was 2.5 billion and in New York it was about 1.7 billion.  The excuse that
the NY subway operates 24/7 is inane since it is not used at full load in the middle of the night.   Closing
it down for between 1 am and 5:30 am would not degrade its service.

New York simply does not have the budget allocated to properly maintain it.   So where is all that vaunted
wealth?

The Russian budget for 2021 is $289 billion (approximately). New York City's budget is $88 billion. NYC spends 30% of the entire country of Russia on a municipal budget and still has metros that look like crap.

You are not accounting for PPP. The Moscow budget is over $50 billion US.

Hole wrote:Because the prize level is 5 to 10 times higher in Bidenland then in Russia. This has to do with "service" economy and, of course, corruption in the beacon of free markets, human rights and vote rigging... er, democracy.

Brib'em All

Hole wrote:Because the prize level is 5 to 10 times higher in Bidenland then in Russia. This has to do with "service" economy and, of course, corruption in the beacon of free markets, human rights and vote rigging... er, democracy.

New York sent Covid-19 patients to old age homes because it lacked hospital space. Sending them home would have exposed their
families and thus compounding the health care load.

Your comment is right on target. The US GDP has to be scaled by its real prices. One of the signs that the PPP factor calculated
for Russia is BS is that the Russian health care system is not in crisis like the one in the USA and Canada. Medical prices in the
USA are insane. Yet somehow this barely affects the PPP. Total, unmitigated nonsense.

The PPP is like the CPI, some concoction using ad hoc weights. The clowns who came up with this Mickey Mouse metric should
apply those same weights when they calculate their GDP. That would deflate it by a factor over 3.

GarryB wrote:You guys are missing the obvious... the US subways don't look like the Russian subways not because they can't or wont afford it... it is because rich people don't go anywhere near the subway so it is not actually considered a problem... who cares what working people see going to and from work every day?

They do obviously but what say do they get in todays America?

Of course you are right. When I worked on Wall Street, even the low level analysts had company cars to ferry them wherever they wanted to go. Maybe the secretaries rode the subway. I did.

That is exactly a 3rd world regime. If the 1% have it all, then the 99% have nothing. Americans for some reason feel
wealthy because there are some super rich in their country. A perverse vicarious achievement.

Guys, I think everyone is also forgetting another aspect of Russian subways....they're also rated to survive thermonuclear apocalypse! So when someone mentions the Patrician class ignoring or not caring about the common plebs using the subways, that also goes doubly true when you consider why US subways were never rated to be shelters for nuclear war. RAND Corporation never thought it was necessary to protect the American people, and 15-20 million US residents destroyed from megadeath's were considered necessary evils. Yes Dr. Strangelove was in fact based on the real life RAND Corporation.