Nobody is gleeful, as far as I've seen. Yeah everyone who told people that this is what was going to happen gets to say "I told you so" but they aren't happy, they're just pissed off in multiple directions now.
IrateAnteater
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Light rail is just that: it's still trains, but they are orders of magnitude lighter, since all you are moving are people. After some quick Googling, freight trains can be a mile long and weigh 20,000 tons, while a light rail train may only consist of 5 cars, totalling somewhere around 200 tons. The track you need to support freight trains is very much overkill for public transit.
Now there are heavier public transit trains that are designed to run on existing freight rail lines, but when people talk about trains for public transit, it's usually light rail that they are thinking of. Unless they are talking about high speed trains, which also require their own dedicated tracks.
For light rail, they usually don't bother trying to go up and down for every crossing, they just elevate the whole thing. Easier to move people up and down at the stations.
I'm not sure what your trying to argue here. Elevate rail lines already exist. It's not something theoretical that people think can be done, it already exists. The engineering problems have been solved. Google it if you don't believe me.
All traffic from that device is going to pass through the router. In order to start communicating with the other device, the first device has to send a packet. The router sees that packet, and routes it to the other device. If there's no internet connection, things die here, but the router still saw that initial packet.
Depends on the router it's hooked to and the level of traffic logging being performed. Being connected to a LAN is not the same as being connected to the internet.
Uh, what? You absolutely can run trains on elevated tracks. Japan does it all the time. So do many other cities and countries. If you want to get real fancy, mag-lev runs almost exclusively on elevated tracks. Where did you get the impression that you can't elevate train tracks?
A) time to move if climate change has fucked your weather that bad.
B) you don't have to tunnel. You can elevate the track.
Just about all of it. America doesn't "let" Canada do anything. Go read a fucking history book.
Pretty sure they're just going to slap that title onto whichever federal minister is already in charge of that portfolio.
Gotta keep that military industry going somehow. Papa Putin said he's not allowed to help Ukraine anymore.