Correct. There is no elevator installation requirement in any building code aside from NYC’s. Some affordable housing funding guidelines may require it, and the Fair Housing Amendments Act has what Payton describes. Otherwise, an 80-story walk-up apartment building is legal in the Land of the Free.

Why would someone debase themselves by writing something so sloppy and low effort?

Florence tramway hit a new record ridership in october, carrying 4.6 million or 160-170 k per weekday on a network that is just 19km That is around 9,000 daily boardings per km, on the higher end of this metric for trams. www.lanazione.it/firenze/cron...

Alaska Airlines will lease slots at Heathrow from American Airlines for Summer 2026 ops. Looks like a 1405 arrival and 1600 departure at LHR. #avgeek

Low property taxes

This is what I feared when I saw Maria Torres-Springer on this transition team. Jamie Torres-Springer’s career in NYC government has been leading two of the worst construction bureaucracies in the world (DDC and MTA Construction & Development).

Features you will not find in most apartment buildings in most of these countries: - Sprinklers - Second stairs - Vent stacks - Standpipes - Wheelchair turning radii in elevator cabs - Construction cost controls

These findings matter because, as Alex notes, they contradict the views held by many building and fire officials that multifamily buildings are dangerous — a misconception driving costly code reforms that offer marginal safety improvements at best.

American CEO Devon May acknowledged at an investor conference Wednesday that the airline is behind the airline premiumization trend. “I think if we had more of it today, we’d be more profitable today.”

Pew's main findings: - Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily - Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family - Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...

DC is nice, man. the bike lanes are coming along, Metro is pretty good, drivers are not psychopaths, etc. miss this place

Out with Eero; in with Eliel

Power down on some part of the northeast corridor.

Maybe do a raise instead of saying members should benefit from inside info.

He’ll yeah @aarmlovi.bsky.social let’s get this in a housing omnibus!

This seems uh, bad. Waymos are becoming worse drivers? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

You rang?

Now that people are back to the office, I can return to tweeting about the necessity of limiting downtown parking.

Disappointed to see this sentiment from Laurie Olin

Big news. Anyways diversion of some traffic to alternate airports to keep the timeline seems like an idea that should be explored?

Municipal fragmentation is bad. Rich people should not be able to live in exclusive suburbs where the ability to pay high housing prices gets them good schools and nice parks while paying nothing to support the cities where they make their money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today I saw a doctor whose first language was Ladino, and he spoke it a bit to me. Actually sort of had a conversation – I spoke Spanish, he spoke Ladino in return. It occurred to me later that hearing a native Ladino speaker is not something future generations will get to experience.

Noooooooooo

I’m such a sucker for a supertall skyscraper disappearing into fog. Sorry it didn’t work out for the condo buyers, but at least the rest of us can enjoy it.

US hiring rates remain stuck at 3.2%—tied for the lowest readings since the worst of COVID—but vary dramatically from state to state DOGE-hit DC has the lowest hiring rate at 2.1%, while Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming have some of the highest hiring rates at 4.5% and above

Free transfers make transit a lot easier. Thanks BART and Bay Area Clipper!

It is insane car-brain that we load trams up with millions of dollars/euros in cost to avoid stringing wires, while allow tons and tons of cars to begrime the view just next to the tracks (plus the scooters and waste bins…)

it’s always very odd how people talk about rail in a vacuum without mentioning the interstate highway program. Then they get Professor Zuremski to say something that’s arguably not true (the USA has the best freight railroad network).

wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this

PART 4: Means of Control gofile.io/d/ycgOQR by Ryan Lizza

New school: 10 storeys

Los Angeles is planning 10 minute off peak service levels for its new transit line towards the westside of LA.

Why was a tram through suburban Toronto such a big transit priority?

You may've heard that at-large city councils represent citywide interests but violate the Voting Rights Act, dooming us to single member wards with "member deference" But! Cambridge's "Single Transferable Vote" system, a type of citywide RCV, eliminates member deference without violating VRA!!

Traffic headed to Reagan National Airport is backed up a half mile onto Rt. 1 - if you are traveling by car, I would plan on at least an extra hour, maybe more, just to get to the terminals. Taking Metro - even if you drop folks off 1 stop away from DCA - is a way to avoid this.

lol what on earth

Anyone know what’s the MBTA’s strategy here with fare gates at south station?

The McCallister family is charged $122.50 for 10 large pizzas (delivered) in the 1990 film Home Alone. $122.50 in 1990 is equivalent to $297.37 in current dollars. 10 large pepperoni pizzas from my neighborhood pizzeria, Ballston Local, inclusive of delivery fees, is $300.70.

would you like some housing with your driveway?

Long way from the Tarmac in Tempe

Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.

Zoning is such a strange institution—in every other sphere of economic life, this sort of command-and-control micromanagement has been thoroughly debunked. And yet when it comes to land use, we're still doing it.

The war on drivers (by not letting them hit kids in front of schools.)

Cal-SMU, a classic matchup in the Atlantic Coast Conference

Zohran takes the economist pill

A way to conceptualize this: Lyft is a publicly traded firm. Its investors expect market average if not market beating returns on capital spending. That probably means citibike expansion is conservative, and prices are high to ensure that rate of return.

Really wild to see Trump march toward war with Venezuela without even going through the motions of manufacturing consent … he’s just like going to do it.