Excuse me, but a great number of what I'd call 'Western' countries use other systems than pluralist votes. For example, the German Federal Diet is elected by a hybrid of the first-past-the-post election system and party-list proportional representation.
Proportional systems are also used in countries like Finland, Austria, Spain and many others. Remember: Just because the USA and the UK use it, it doesn't make it "Western" by default. (Just because -their- minds boggle when we here get along well with a four-party coalition government....)
Already been done in the 60s
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This is certainly not new news. Similar vehicles were in use in the 1960s in Germany.
The whole concept of putting a bus on rails, i.e. building a light-weight DMU with bus components, isn't exactly new either..
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Excuse me, but a great number of what I'd call 'Western' countries use other systems than pluralist votes. For example, the German Federal Diet is elected by a hybrid of the first-past-the-post election system and party-list proportional representation. Proportional systems are also used in countries like Finland, Austria, Spain and many others. Remember: Just because the USA and the UK use it, it doesn't make it "Western" by default. (Just because -their- minds boggle when we here get along well with a four-party coalition government....)
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...if it allows me to electrocute the DJ every time they make a witty remark.
This surely is the longest-apart dupe story ever.
This is certainly not new news. Similar vehicles were in use in the 1960s in Germany. The whole concept of putting a bus on rails, i.e. building a light-weight DMU with bus components, isn't exactly new either..