ITTL, how would someone get from Auburn to Seattle by using public transit? Soundrail or bus?
The CSA may have some cities with some kind of rail transport, though it def won’t be as robust as anything OTL without all them sweet federal dollarsWhich of course leads to following question: As of present day, are there any heavy rail rapid transit systems in the Confederacy? According to Wikipedia, iOTL USA, the metropolitan areas with heavy rail rapid transit are: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Honolulu, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, NYC (including PATH & Staten Island RR), Philadelphia (including PATCO) and San Juan, PR.
Two of those cities are in the Confederacy (I'm assuming that even if DC gets a subway system that everywhere the OTL Metro goes will be taken in the GAW peace treaty): Atlanta and Miami. The Author has indicated that Miami will be a *very* different city than iOTL so I'm really not sure there (and definitely not a Subway). Atlanta might, the other two cities that could be in the running based on importance are Richmond (if it is allowed to stay the National Capital (not where there is anything in the eu thread that says that definitively) and New Orleans. New Orleans, like Miami is definitely not doing a subway (You end up in Hell in the afterlife, your choices are helping with the Miami subway or the New Orleans subway). Richmond is *possible*, if it remains the national capital, it might.
Soundrail is definitely the move. Think the Sounder, but S-Bahn quality/frequencyITTL, how would someone get from Auburn to Seattle by using public transit? Soundrail or bus?
How many Soundrail lines are there? Also, are Everett-bound trains still susceptible to cancellations due to landslides?Soundrail is definitely the move. Think the Sounder, but S-Bahn quality/frequency
We’ll cover that here soon and the answer is no… because they’re using a different route between Everett and Seattle 😎How many Soundrail lines are there? Also, are Everett-bound trains still susceptible to cancellations due to landslides?
I think Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston might have a limited system.The CSA may have some cities with some kind of rail transport, though it def won’t be as robust as anything OTL without all them sweet federal dollars
Soundrail is definitely the move. Think the Sounder, but S-Bahn quality/frequency
But that's not CSA. I *think* the Author has had 202X event with Texas independent.I think Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston might have a limited system.
Indeed entirely possible!Cuba is mentioned as a separate government, just as the US is. So eventually Cuba goes its own way. Also, with the Chilean peace treaty, it is entirely possible that the Border Crisis is entire within OTL Chile.
A good comp, since by present day the National Liberals are meant to be a less-unhinged People's PartyShe strikes me as a less unhinged version of Isabel Ayuso.
A timeline Peter MacKay is happy?Peter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is a Nova Scotian diplomat, lawyer and politician who is the incumbent Prime Minister of Nova Scotia. A member of the Conservative Party, MacKay was the first, and to date only, Nova Scotian to have also served as Chairman of the Atlantic Council (the de facto executive of the supranational Atlantic Union) and previously served as the Foreign Minister of Nova Scotia. Upon the conclusion of his time as head of the Atlantic Council in Saint John, he was elected as head of the Conservative Party upon the resignation of Karla MacFarlane.
MacKay's father Elmer was a judicial figure and Cabinet officer in the provincial government of John Buchanan in the 1980s and was an aide in Buchanan's negotiations with the Canadian government and the Liberal Cabinet of Frank McKenna in New Brunswick to exit Confederation in 1992 following the Quebec independence referendum. MacKay was elected to replace his father from his New Glasgow-based seat in the 1998 Nova Scotia elections, and the Tories won government in 2000 after seven years out of power under John Hamm. MacKay was invited to enter Cabinet in early 2002 as Minister of Economic Development, and was widely praised for his role there in helping Nova Scotia navigate the 2002 financial crisis and early 2000s global recession; despite his efforts, deindustrialization and rural flight continued. MacKay was thought of as a likely successor to Hamm and throughout 2006 was held up as the longtime leader's likeliest replacement; however, he backed Foreign Minister Gerald Keddy to the surprise of many in the Februay 2007 leadership contest and was appointed to replace Keddy at the Foreign Office soon thereafter. As Nova Scotia's chief diplomat, MacKay continued Keddy's policy of building further ties to the United States and was crucial in negotiating the 2008 free trade agreement between the Atlantic Union and the United States and helping advocate, along with Atlantic Council Chair Trevor Holder, the accession of the entire AU to the North American Free Travel Area in 2011, which came into effect on January 31, 2014. Upon the end of Holder's five-year term in 2015, MacKay was voted as Chair of the Atlantic Council even though it had been suspected he was planning to replace Keddy within the next 18 months.
MacKay's Amerophilic foreign policy continued at the Atlantic Council and he was regarded as a more low-key figure than predecessors such as McKenna or Brian Tobin; he was the first Nova Scotian in the role, and was controversial both for decisions that drew the AU further from its position within the Commonwealth and towards the United States, and for decisions perceived as favoring Nova Scotia at the expense of the other three members of the Union. At the end of his five years in Saint John, he returned to practice law in Halifax and was unanimously elected as the new head of the Conservative Party in December 2021, running in a by-election two months later to reclaim his old seat. In the 2023 Nova Scotian elections, MacKay moved the Tories back to their traditional ground of the center and defeated the incumbent center-left government of the Social Democrats' Gary Burrill on a populist campaign manifesto promising tax rebates for poor Nova Scotians, investments in housing, hospitals and renewable energy, a moratorium on school closures and thousands of dollars in road reconstruction.
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*things go well for Peter MacKay*A timeline Peter MacKay is happy?
Granted I only saw him in like three timeline (with all being from test threads) but this is a shock for me!
CorrectHe's Hohenzollern right?
Or Ottomans for that matter.Nor have we seen Bulgaria or Albania listed
Time to look for present-day spoilers!
The German Empire is still around, in case there was any doubt.
Poland and Finland are both mentioned. although it looks like Finland had its own team for some of the early Olympics OTL so I suppose it's possible the Tsarist Grand Duchy of Finland is still around. Notably *not* mentioned: Ukraine or any Baltic nations.
Other notable nations *not* mentioned. We still haven't seen mentions of either Slovakia or Slovenia (or equivalents) listed. Nor have we seen Bulgaria or Albania listed. (Or Belgium, though we already knew that one.)
Everyone can choose to read into exclusions as they wishOr Ottomans for that matter.
Also seems like Finlamd and Poland are fully independent instead of playing as Constituent nations in Russia(From flag having no Tsarist symbols.) ,so Russia has some domestic turbulance in the future?
Also what is the status of Cricket in modern day? Which countries play it?
This means *someone* in Edmonton will invent a version of Cricket with a puck, hockey stick and goal. (There isn't *that* much difference between the Pads for a Batsman and for a Hockey Goalie.Everyone can choose to read into exclusions as they wish
Good q on cricket. It’s obviously huge in the subcontinent, Australia, etc. might have more of a Canadian following too with Canada staying culturally influenced by Britain for longer