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Not sure how to deal with this kind of wildly unbalanced risk assessment

Give a summary of your thoughts on the linked page

Why does this make you think of park tools?

Do you know that the government has set those targets?


And the dutch aren’t very well known for their imperial mentality?


The Dutch were ridiculously bad at imposing their language on other countries. Little trace of it remains in Indonesia, or New York. Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten have never taken to it. South Africa is kind of the exception except even then Afrikaans has played second fiddle to English for 150 years, and they have sought to differentiate their language from Dutch in more recent times.

Portugal has been better at that game when you consider its size.


What do you find strange about it?


I believe general wisdom in the US is that trains are best when run by the government at zero cost. This is presumably the best way to get transit. So the idea that competition would improve things is odd.


Europe is a big place


Was that the situation?


Wait, are you saying you did?


> Wait, are you saying you did?

I'm confused about what are you asking. Are you asking if I have looked at the layout of the station and the images of the platforms? If so yes. That's how I'm describing it in my first post.

You can too. Here is a general layout for passengers: https://www.bahnhof.de/en/troisdorf/map

You can look at satellite images of the station via google maps, or you can check the track and signalling arrangements on https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

On top of that you can see the platforms in question on wikimedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/S13_Troi...


Your experience isn’t universal either


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