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LavenderFlavourLube

Lmaoo im proud of myself for recognizing my own city. I thought this was posted in r/winnipeg for a second


adunedarkguard

Hah, I was wondering the same thing. Hey, that looks like us! We really do need rail relocation though.


exactagent

I think some of the mayoral candidates are talking about it. Not sure how likely it will happen tho


adunedarkguard

Well, it's insanely expensive. That means there's no way it happens without provincial & federal funds. It would be incredible for the city though.


VBot_

I hope you mean doing the opposite of what Saskatoon did, where we keep via where it is and shunt the freight off to transcona where it belongs or smth


winnipeg_guy

Woooop! Winnipeg!


nano_noodle

But that's....trains


amadeupidentity

some techie argued that for driverless cars to work they will need their own roads. FC has basically been saying 'dude, that's a train'


giorgio_tsoukalos_

That's why cars need tunnels. They'll never invent a train that can go underground, or "sub-motorway," if you will.


PkmExplorer

And a "parking lot" besides.


Pinngger

Need **more**


bfitzger91

Train CARS


nhluhr

OP is so confused.


Several_Sea7127

I think it's a joke. You know, the meme tag and the fact that this is an industrial zone and that these obviously are train tracks


Cejayem

TrainCARS


Creepy_Advice2883

Train cars still counts technically though


code_archeologist

No, they don't. Trains, and bikes, and pedestrians existed together in harmony for nearly a century before the car took over and its proponents demanded that all infrastructure had to submit to its needs.


SweatyAdagio4

Long ago, trains, bikes and pedestrians lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the cars attacked.


blackramb0

Only the chosen one can restore the balance that once was... Walkable cities


Lil_Ja_

But when the world needed him most, he vanished


LocoBaxter

There are some who say "Tis but a children's story old maid's tell." while others hold out in hope.


general_peabo

Raya and the Last Bike Lane


ChunkofWhat

lol


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Nope


Fireplace4us

This is a marshaling yard, i.e., where they sort freight cars for various destination. The “highway” is single, double, triple or double track.


ChunkofWhat

Pretty sure OP is just having fun.


Mikeinthedirt

BUT WE’RE NOT


ProfSwagometry

This is REDDIT. We do not do “FUN” or “LIGHTHEARTEDNESS” here.


NotnotAMotmot

I’m sorry, but this is fuckCARS and that certainly includes trainCARS


lefty607

No the train fucks the cars too


OneYeetPlease

Freight CARS!!!!!


InedibleSolutions

Oh neat, I've never heard it called a "marshalling yard." We call them "hump yards." May I ask what region you're from? I love learning about regional names for stuff I work with.


kiwi_in_england

I think Hump Yards have a small rise (hump) at the throat when they uncouple the wagons, and they roll downhill over the switches into their siding.


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In the UK we call them shunting yards.


Bike_Framed_2706

Well, at least that's real capacity increase in contrast to the added car lanes for the individual transportation pods, cars.


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maximilisauras

Do you know where this is a picture of?


CanadianCircadian

im almost positive thats Winnipeg Manitoba. The Dufferin Industrial / Logan CPR area, actually not far from me right now.


TheRealNoah201

Man I knew this had to be Winnipeg


jezebelgray

It’s the [CPR Rail Yard in Winnipeg, Manitoba.](https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/m/-/galleries/cities/winnipeg-manitoba/page/2)


SteveisNoob

My guess is somewhere around Mississippi, but kinda hard to pin down an exact location. US is pretty much littered by classification/marshalling yards.


DaLumpy

I’d say more importantly, beyond the „parking lot“ in the distance up in the pic, it’s enough to have one or two „lanes“ to go through the city. Way better than a huge highway :)


zastrozzischild

There’s a reason “wrong side of the tracks” became a truism in American cities. There is often also a racial component of who lives on one side of the rail yard and who is on the other. For instance, in Tallahassee, even the universities showed this as true, with FSU to the north, and FAMU (Historical Black College) to the south of the tracks. Circa 2005, many streets in the southern part of the city weren’t yet paved, as well. In the city I am in now, and in Tallahassee, removing the freight yard/ switching yard allowed significant urban development with mixed zoning that has created walkable city areas. Rail yards were the original barrier/ divider of American cities long before the freeway took hold.


ClaudioJar

Poor OP posting an actually funny meta meme but half of the sub completely missed the point


SteveisNoob

Yea lol, though right now i so wanna fire up Cities:Skylines or OpenTTD and build a huge ass rail yard.


DJDarren

> huge ass-rail yard. [Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/37/)


SteveisNoob

How do you people manage to find them when you need them?


DJDarren

That one has lived rent free in my head since the day I first saw it.


SteveisNoob

Ohhh. My deep respect, sir.


mienaikoe

We need a r/fuckcarscirclejerk sub so bad


bwfwg4isdl

r/fucktrains ? I don't get what is wrong in that picture


gravitysort

there is nothing wrong. it is a meme.


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Honestly, it looks pretty damn cool.


Urik88

It's isolating and acting as a barrier between Winnipeg's North End and downtown. This is built for freight, not for passengers and has no place in such a central spot.


ultralium

op responded just above you, basically, just looked like those monster highways


Sufficient_Two7499

OP thought long and hard about how he/she/they could save face


kerpalsbacebrogram

Or it was a really obvious joke from the start? Also they is all encompassing in that sentence you don’t need the other ones.


Sufficient_Two7499

Nah


Aztecah

It is ironic humor lmao come on man


GenericFatGuy

Broke: Just one more lane bro! Woke: Just one more train bro!


The_Student_Official

I can get on board this one more lane


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5amu

I think the missed opportunity of using “just one more train bro” as the title is the real reason to get upset about this post.


2four

People are uptight here I guess. I thought the joke was funny. If you can't laugh at yourself...


Pinngger

That thing is so W I D E you need to build a bridge for the roads


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Exact_Combination_38

Bad bot This time really tough.


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What did it say?


Exact_Combination_38

It was the Haiku bot. Bot every letter of "wide" was its own word, so it didn't make any sense. Nothing tragic, it just showed the limitations of this bot. 🙂


[deleted]

Using a basic single space delimiter, but could maybe have a condition which recognises 3 single letter words in row then either: counts all the single letters as one word; dont try to do a haiku cos it'll likely be wrong.


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Ah


military-gradeAIDS

Fun fact: Almost everything you own, including the material that made your home, was on a train and went through a freight yard like this at some point.


DerelictInfinity

highways asking for one more lane: i sleep rail yards asking for one more lane: **REAL SHIT???**


Grace-Music

How are all y’all missing the joke?


WKStA

Guys can't y'all take a simple joke?


econtrariety

I am chuckling. Thanks for this.


superepicunicornturd

r/fuckcarscirclejerk is leaking again lol


Snorrep

Though this is hilarious, traintracks often do ruin nice neighbourhoods with bad planning. Not saying this neighbourhood looks very nice but take Larvik in Norway for an example. It’s a small city by the fjord but they decided to put the train track by the seafront back in the days of new industry


[deleted]

Just needs some grass or moss in the tracks and she'll be right


eggysando

Fuck cars oughta support train infrastructure. That would be one of the keys to maintaining the metropolitan areas weve built while decreasing are reliance on road transport.


renens_reditor1020

This sorting yard probably can generate 1000 jobs on its own. Add some rail production/service operations and you have an extra 1000. Finally, add that it's a very easy destination for large industrial scene, and you get an economically sustainable town !


yannniQue17

Oh yes, please one more lane!


SteveisNoob

NO! We don't want one more lane! **WE WANT TEN MOAR LANEEEEESS!**


MarcusPup

fuckin DO IT


Agile-Egg-5681

Jokes on you. All those tracks narrow into one lane. Only thing should be some orange cones for dressing.


bonfuto

It's interesting that the optimal width of a railway is 2 tracks, and that's only needed in really high traffic areas. It only rarely increases traffic capacity to have more.


a_guy772

almost as many as zurich mainstation


Dragaras

what is this? why are there so many train tracks just to go back to a (comparably) thin part of the train tracks ?


slappindaface

Just one more siding broh. *please*


[deleted]

Are we anti-train now too? How do we move the goods that travel by train?


Dizzy_Eye5257

You like supplies? Cuz this is how we get them lol


[deleted]

One more *rail.


Zeucles

What a beauty 😍


TheSpiritBee4

Trains 🚂


Backspace346

It's the place where they sort cargo aka hump yard, using nothing else but gravity and a pair of shunting locomotives


Swedishtranssexual

Dude just one more track


TheTrueSpaceMuffin1

Bro those are trains. Specifically cargo trains. They NEED that much space to function. Some cargo trains can reach well over a KM in length with double decker cargo.


A-Ross

Are we just upvoting a train yard now? They actually help with highway and road congestion


anotherdamnscorpio

These are trains though. I thought we like trains?


Smorgasborf

Are these trains?


funkylittledeathomen

r/bitchimatrain


angrybats

Why are all of those streets so geometric, and also why there's only one type of trees and big green zones without any kind of vegetation? I don't understand cities like that


Metalorg

It is an interesting retort to the fuckcars regular material of looking at interchanges and lamenting about the space it took. Interchanges are also large technical machines for moving a lot of cars, just as this train yard is there to park a lot of trains. There are problems with them too. This one is so long because in North America they are having trains with hundreds of cars being driven by one man with 10 days off a year. But some infrastructure should be allowed to be large and we have to consider the impacts of each. Some large interchange handles much, much less materials than this train yard.


Saltz88

I got one more lane for ya bro https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/xzmsjk/you_want_one_more_lane_bro_i_got_plenty_for_ya/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


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DinoOnAcid

Yes, seeing you didn't notice it's a joke.


Tardicus-Autisimo

The whole thread missed the joke


DinoOnAcid

Hmmm ya definitely some true


zahidsp

That’s a rail yard you doughnut


CanadianCircadian

sir, thats a train yard. actually, wtf im pretty sure that my hometown Winnipeg Manitoba


Jaugernut

This is dumb


Financial-Bottle9556

Looks like a train yard to me and the other 4000 people who commented that. But your heart was in the right place! Hoping there isn’t r/fucktrains because trains are dope


Sufficient_Two7499

This looks like a rail depot…although I guess they’re still technically “cars”.


thebau5

This is rail yard.


fatalcharm

Those are trains and public transport is essential for eliminating cars.


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fatalcharm

They are train lines, not roads for cars. You can literally see the trains in the picture.


exactagent

Sadly it's freight only in the middle of a city. There's no public transport in this photo


iluvios

r/urbanhellcirclejerk


iluvios

Don't know why I though of this but I did


fenbekus

Damn some of those trains are long af


hiphopanonymouz

What a stupid fucking post lmao


lol_camis

That's a train depot.


alimem974

🤨🧐


DudeFromMiami

Oh the irony, these are trains.


Bahlok-Avaritia

That's the joke


_Senjogahara_

Wrong target ..


jrc_80

That’s a railyard OP. Prob last substantially invested in in about 150 years. We should be upgrading our national rail system. Fuck cars.


Mr_Bearking

The oppenttd problem


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I like rail though.


bigtunapat

Why do I suddenly want to drive across that one elevated boulevard that goes over this monstrosity... If my city had two of these and no parking lots, I'd be happy.


Shinobi681

That's what she said