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Raffi's avatar

Very interesting write-up, thank you.

One thing I would point out is that a quick search for Ukraine automobile ownership indicates that Ukraine has about the number of road vehicles per capita that one would expect given per-capita income: pretty low https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita

It stands to reason that unlike American transit agencies (and I'm thinking specifically of New York but if anything it's probably more extreme elsewhere) those thousands of employees largely ride transit to their own jobs and are invested in the system personally, rather than being yet another reserve army of resentful motorists.

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J M Hatch's avatar

Hong Kong MTR underground trains also do not have a (published) schedule (though they do publish the first and last subway train of the day departure times for each station on each line. The spacing is interesting concept. Hong Kong train station spacing is much more irregular, at least on Hong Kong Island, with geography and zone population density/development density driving the spacing.

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