NationStates Jolt Archive

RECOGNISING that many nations choose to use different gauges on railway lines,

RECOGNISING further that the safety standards on railways are sub par on many railways throughout the world,

BELIEVING that non-standard railway gauges act as a hindrance to free trade, as goods travelling by train between over national borders are required to unload their cargo or passengers and then reload the goods or passenger onto a train of the correct gauge for the country into which the goods or passengers have travelled into,

FURTHER NOTING that differences in safety standards between national safety standards can also lead to the scenario described above

The United Notians,

MANDATES that all mainline railways of nations with land borders adopt a standard gauge of four feet eight and a half inches. Industrial, light, branchline, and metropolitan railways are exempt from this requirement

ESTABLISHES the UN Associational Directorate Under license To Execute Railway And Transport Executive Decisions Pertaining Largely, Albeit Exclusive from Air & Sea, Under Regional Extraterritoriality (UNADULTERATED PLEASURE)

AUTHORISES UNADULTERATED PLEASURE to set minimum safety standards for all railways and trains operating internationally.

if this ever came to vote I would be opposing this with all my being.

I fail to see why the railway gauge a nation uses is any concern of the UN or even a free trade issue.

Also how is it a safety issue when transfering trading goods onto a train? its not the rails that cause a problem.

Ms Yukiko Uehara
Kirisuban Deputy Ambassador to the UN

Ugh! That's a long way to get an acronym.

Still I do object, what's land got to do with it? Back in the Glorious days of the great historic railroads, Mr. Henry Flaggler built his railroad down the Florida Keys to Key West Florida. From there, the freight cars took a barge for the 90 mile trip to Cuba. So clearly even an island nation could have need for standard guages.

"Hold your nose and run screaming from the room" acronyms should be grounds for deletion in their own right. Since they're not, you'll have to settle for having the fastest General-Assembly-clearing event since Gruenberg smuggled a skunk in here inside his boxers.

Ugh, indeed.

"Hold your nose and run screaming from the room" acronyms should be grounds for deletion in their own right. Since they're not, you'll have to settle for having the fastest General-Assembly-clearing event since Gruenberg smuggled a skunk in here inside his boxers.
Well...I'm...um...huh.

But I agree about stupid acronyms. Enough already.

Well...I'm...um...huh.

But I agree about stupid acronyms. Enough already.

Amen to that.

Well, not quite. Thanks to Fris, we now have the HYNARSFTR acronym, though (again, thanks largely to Fris?) not all that many proposals to apply it to.

We would suggest that there's no need to standardise the gauge across all UN nations when there are many cases in which trains from some nations would never be able to reach certain other nations anyway: Leave it for local agreements, perhaps on a 'regional' basis...

ESTABLISHES the UN Associational Directorate Under license To Execute Railway And Transport Executive Decisions Pertaining Largely, Albeit Exclusive from Air & Sea, Under Regional Extraterritoriality (UNADULTERATED PLEASURE)
Please Capitalise "license." Otherwise it'd be "UNADUTERATED PLEASURE." Also make "albeit" lowercase, otherwise it'd be "UNADULTERATED PLAEASURE."

No, actually, don't bother. The acronym is amusing, but let's quit building Proposals just to have amusing acronyms.

But I spent three weeks on that acronym... :(

But I spent three weeks on that acronym... :(

OOC: Some of us had been wondering where you were... ;)

IC: Also, the suggestion of setting a single gauge as the UN-wide standard ignores the fact that some nations have inhabitants who are themselves of non-"standard" sizes and would therefore presumably need non-'standard' trains...