Looks like a couple of buildings have collapsed above some Delhi Metro tunneling work tunnellingjournal.com/dmrc-stateme...

*$200m* for the ponies but when [SEPTA] pleads "for sustainable funding from Harrisburg, they’re told by conservative senators that there are not enough resources to go around." -- www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Top White House advisers signals that firing Powell maybe is not out of the question as the admin begins to probe these accusations around Fed renovations. Hassett said it would depend potentially on what Powell's answers turn up www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

🧵 We're currently building a mixed income building in Charlotte where 30% of units are financed by LIHTC. I'm starting a running list of requirements in the LIHTC units that are superior to conventional market rate apartments and thus drive up cost: 1/

British Rail used to call this "the sparks effect"

Electrification + all-day frequency + return to office + freeway jams = Caltrain ridership ↗️

Every time I see Brescia mentioned somewhere, I check if they mention the automated light metro. Sadly not, this time. www.ft.com/content/af18...

This is his time.

My extremely Trumpy in-laws love Fetterman. This kind of thing is a great way to get re-elected in a purple state! Sorry, but it's true.

I am certainly intrigued, since I haven't seen any signs of them installing validators at rail stations for pay-as-you-go. But it looks like FAREPAY cards can hold *tickets* as well as value, so maybe you can buy/load e-tickets onto your card, and when the conductor scans it they take an e-ticket?

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

I’m proud of what we've accomplished. Our “Paris-style” reforms made headlines, from The Economist to The Daily Show. Some said for the first time they have real hope they can stay in the city they love But big wins come with big pushback and a tough re-election Help me raise the $50k I need to win

100% agree with this, rigid, poorly-designed procurement rules are a big part of the problem with getting stuff done

Funny thing is that the UK has one of the lowest rates of fluoridation in the developed world

All you need to know about the importance of air conditioning for climate change summers via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

News here: Trump says he’s considering raising the blanket tariff on nearly all imports, currently set at 10%, another 5 or 10 percentage points, @NBCNews reports.

Update: lmfao

Positive China Shock in Ethiopia: Chinese imports post 2001 caused manufacturing employment (across all industries) to rise by ~5% because cheaper imported inputs (machines, chemicals, metal products, etc.) with no domestic substitutes increased firm productivity & capacity utilisation

Wimbledon's ambitions to expand are being tested in the High Court. The legal arguments are a proxy-fight. The real battle is over visions of the contest: a leading player in the global sports market, or remaining merely 'tennis in an English garden'." www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Has there been any reporting of what happened to the men rendered to South Sudan? Are they being imprisoned there?

Apologies as the site is down again. I'm only still persevering with this hosting company as spent so many hundreds on them - but it's at a sunk cost fallacy point now. Anyone know any good - and affordable - hosts?

NYC union tries to hire union labor to renovate a building, and gets an object lesson in why almost the entire private NYC development sector has run away from union construction labor www.local802afm.org/allegro/arti... (link via @jacobgarchik.bsky.social, but don’t blame him for my scab spin)

I took a family trip to Paso Robles on Amtrak's Coast Starlight route in May. On the way home, I tracked its running speed via Strava, which you can see visualized here. There are some fast parts between Gilroy and SJ, but you lose a *lot* of time in the deep East Bay.

I appreciate how this video ties in transit capital financing with design decisions. "Finish in 2040 vs 2055" - i.e. in many citizens' lifetimes or not - should be a choice given more weight alongside "more construction street disruption or less."

WMATA is steadily closing in on officially becoming the 2nd-largest US transit agency and might be able to achieve it this year—in fact, it's already had higher ridership than Chicago's CTA or LA Metro over the last three months

Literally

If anybody lives in Emily Gallagher’s assembly district and wants to write her policy director an email and ask her to please not burden the G train with more costs, she’s Hanna Johnson at [email protected]

This is extremely funny and dumb, but scary if looked at through @bretdevereaux.bsky.social 's concept of the US civil-military bargain, in which the military has historically agreed to stay out of politics in return for politicians not trying to draw them in acoup.blog/2025/07/04/c...

guys I'm fucking dying over here

“Salvadoran officials have said for the first time that more than 130 Venezuelan migrants who have been detained for months in a megaprison in El Salvador remain under the responsibility of the United States, according to a court document filed Monday.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

As we discussed once with @stephenjacobsmith.com , a cool way to start investigating different technical approaches between US/CAN and RoW would be to just pay a bunch of NA engineers/designers to walk around a European, Asian etc. construction site for a week and freely comment what they see.

As with almost everything, the UK is right between France and the US

Video shows the introduction of NATM (New Austrian Tunnelling Method) in 1980's Japan with the Yokohama Blue line. The contrast between lots of tech/few people and the labour intensive videos of the 1960's Hibiya/Asakusa line construction vids I posted earlier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDt...

My daughter asked my wife to draw the King (she's obsessed with Zadok the Priest), and my wife drew the Burger King. Is this harassment based on national origin?

We've got the battery specifications for the UK class 756 tri mode FLIRTs released a few months back 559kwh on the 4 car while its 447kwh on the 3 car. They are LTO cells from ABB Total output is 1.3MW but I don't see anything clarifying if that includes the single 500kw genset

Received a survey from the NOAA that I usually would have ignored, but did my civic duty because response rates are low

“[NWS’s San Antonio office] warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the [Trump admin’s] early retirement package…at both [NWS] offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January…” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

"NEAR THE NETZARIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip —  What does it take to get food today in Gaza? It involves a perilous journey that I took myself." -- www.npr.org/2025/07/06/g...

conservative christians have babylon, nazis had degenerate berlin, antisemitic dirtbag leftists have tel aviv. liberals need to develop our own city that is the sum of all worldly sins. i propose dubai

This caption about the Port Authority’s bus terminal was written in 1966.

Since transit twitter has moved here. A friend forwarded this onto me. Have a good idea? 2k to write about it! ifp.org/call-for-pro...

Some good stuff in here, though I think it could be more radical. One insane thing about UK government funded projects which I didn't realise until recently is that their budgets are annual! An incredibly bad idea.

I suspect the highlighted section is a huge part of this

Anyone know what Caltrain spent on its electrification EIS? My memory says like $50m but I cannot find the amount anywhere

Well I'm skint. Rent has cleaned me out. Support the site which helps me pay the bills (barely any more) here ko-fi.com/fromthemurky...

Transport Infrastructure Ireland seems to be putting together a plan to massively expand Dublin's Luas tram lines. Will be interesting to see what they come up with. @ryukyu-hsr.bsky.social @princetonyimby.bsky.social may be interested irishcycle.com/wp-content/u...

- phased implementation - thru running - bidirectional, off-peak service - timetable - integrated bus transfers and fares

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