This is well said: “Rail vehicles are at a disadvantage when they operate uninsulated from the chaos of the city’s streets.”

I love a lot of things about Sound Transit's growing light rail system in the Seattle region, but the use of numbers to represent both lines (1 and 2) AND stations (e.g., here you see 65 and 68) is super confusing and unhelpful, IMO.

The Trump Administration wants to leave its mark on Washington’s Dulles airport, even potentially replacing the iconic (but not landmarked) Eero Saarinen-designed main terminal. More on the "cartoonishly vague," as @jgbollard.bsky.social put it, solicitation: byerussell.substack.com/p/make-dulle...

It’s amazing that “we have a plan” means “issuing an RFI”

the tl;dr here - it’s not a stretch to pin this entirely on Dan Snyder www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...

the man even does recent works of art… amazing

Absolutely not. Herbstreit has plenty of influence in CFB; how about advocating to change the calendar so this is less of an issue?

So, so many American cities could’ve been like Toronto, had we simply not ripped out all of the streetcars.

The visuals here are fantastic; you also get the sense that this might inevitably be a Embarcadero or West Side Highway situation - inaction until an outside event forces the closure.

Population density is one thing, but parking is a huge factor in transit ridership.

oh NO Lamar

NCIS: Duluth telling the tales of America’s furthest inland port

HES RIGHT BEHIND YOU

never heard of it

man, the hits keep coming for Rad… 😔

Normalcy returns to the universe; Wisconsin wins against Illinois

I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal

A Hill East casino? www.hillrag.com/2025/11/20/c...

Yes. For all the abundance conversations, housing is an obvious focus area. But it’s not only about aggregate levels, but about location and access.

Despite claims to the contrary, space crime is actually at historic lows.

This overstates the preference, imo, because most people never actually have the choice. And where the choice does exist, the market signals (prices) indicate the opposite preference!

Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation. Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs. www.wmata.com/about/board/...

I’m curious for the actual regulatory issue here… www.reddit.com/r/DMV_RealEs...

Gah this framing drives me nuts. What debate? Here’s a nice article on the design history of the mobile lounge, framed around a fake “debate” instead of an actual description of the airport’s future plans

Of all the sad fan crowd shots, the Bama ones are always the best

A lesson going forward: the processes required to spend the money matter just as much as the level of spending itself.

I had never considered the possibility of a hard landing in a mobile lounge…

My 3rd grader was a bit disappointed none of his classmates knew today was the day of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

lol *this* is Luke Fickell’s first win against a ranked team at UW.

The legend lives on!

The punter with the most passing yards is one thing; 2 of 10 for zero (0) yards is another

“That decision would likely rest with the District of Columbia Council, which will lease the stadium to the Commanders, and the National Park Service…” Well that will be an interesting Council session… www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

The way the Big Ten handles ice hockey TV is just brutal. No. 1 Michigan State vs No. 3 Penn State tonight, top teams in the country with a future No. 1 NHL pick, and it's relegated to BTN+ streaming. Come on.

Kiss and Ride is not just an American thing, either -- here's the Swedish wayfinding for it.

It’s interesting to compare the grumbling here (that I share!) about these requirements, and compare against a longstanding policy that has much the same effect - DC’s building projection regulations. planning.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

Not sure what this says about transit; it doesn’t say anything good about the state of data analysis

I hope Chris McIntosh is also polishing his resume.

now that’s good transit content

win or lose, we booze (don’t need the “win” option in there much these days, tbh)

Reminds me of the water usage in Edmonton during big hockey games

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

It is wild to compare the surrounding land use for jet-age contemporaries like IAD and CDG…

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

Man that’s rough. Dropping both game 6 and 7 with walkoff double plays

Just gonna load the bases with one out for every half inning from now on. You know, for fun.

wow wow wow

lol I thought that was it

Important Game 7 content

I love a 3-6-3 double play