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Flexicurity, the Danish model and the welfare state | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Main lines, of course. To be truthful, I just looked at my mental map and decided that the line between Aarhus and Middelfart was justabout a third of the net. Well, the main line net. But I wasn't aware that it's quite as bad as you say.

OTOH, it's a simple exercise to electrify, because on much of the non-electric parts of the main line, the masts are already there - they just need the copper.

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 11:06:11 AM EST
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Nitpick continues alert (4.00 / 4)

The masts already there - do you mean the telegraph lines? But catenary needs something stronger, and with a given spacing. Also, the copper itself, and the electrical substations are important cost factors. But anyway, if Switzerland could electrify 100%, so can Denmark.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 12:19:13 PM EST
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Re: Nitpick continues alert (4.00 / 2)

I mean the mast you hang the lines in. Dunno what they're called, but if you look out the window when you go by train in Jylland, you'll see that there are poles next to the track that look suspiciously like there ought to be wires hanging on them - which is because there ought to be, but for some reason the wires never got up...

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 06:47:32 PM EST
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