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hard-wire en · VERB
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To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
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To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
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(broadly) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
"And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation.
"You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation.
2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:
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