There is something poetic about how every once in a while the faux progressive machinations of the LA establishment rear up and bite them. Another example being the “actually you can build a ton of housing here if you put a Costco below it” project.

missed that wingardh + vilhelm lauritzen's 37-story 120m tall tower in copenhagen is a single stair building US code officials think 4 is too much? even with sprinklers?!? divisare.com/projects/482...

It is interesting to read how Spain’s housing discourse in X is slowly shifting to a more YIMBY attitude. After years of tenant laws and antiAirbnb sentiment, some journalists are realizing that they are not working.

There are actually real differences between "railroading" and running a metro system, but propulsion technology is not really one of the defining ones. The actual difference is massive installed base v. figuring out how to make something brand new work.

god, he's such a creepy little shit.

In china very smart people go into transportation engineering. In the USA this is not a major available to undergrads.

cracking open the finest bottle of heavy sour crude in the house

h/t @zeitlin.bsky.social who shared this incredible snippet from the Marc Andreessen New Yorker profile: "When I told him (Rilke's line "Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.") he stared back in absolute horror."

14.4 billion is a lot of money for a toll bridge that can’t pay for itself.

The reality in a place like New York City or London or even Chicago is that if the speed limit is 30mph, what that means is that drivers accelerate wildly for a stretch of say, 200 yards only to sit in a jam at a traffic light for longer

At a larger scale this is a sort of blowback for having weak state capacity and poor wages for public employees. You can cash in by setting up a complex system while you’re a public employee and then becoming a consultant to help people navigate that system.

Okay in his defense this winter I tried to report illegal dumping on Flushing Ave. under the BQE, and the 311 system would not accept anything that wasn’t a building address, and no matter how I described it, DSNY kept saying they couldn’t find the huge amount of trash I passed by four times a week

Looks like @jfh01.bsky.social's departure was the canary in the coal mine. In her second term, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is taking a big step backwards on transportation reforms.

people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...

He’s so real for this.

“While she once unapologetically championed bike and bus lanes and other street safety improvements, [Mayor Wu] has since substantially slowed, or entirely stalled progress on many, by requiring her personal approval on most transit and road safety projects...” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/15/m...

This film was made with real live actors! It is supported by the Bezos Foundation for the Preservation of the Arts.

Philadelphia is what happens when you run a city for the small time landowner and retiree at the expense of economic dynamism.

Spending tens of millions of dollars to connect people to jobs that don't exist because we have the highest city business taxes in the nation www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

22, not yet finished with school, buys a new car, puts herself 80k in debt. 32, lives in Grand Rapids, works in *Saginaw*, has no reliable transportation & relies on Uber. I'd be more impressed with this article if they hadn't found absolutely gonzo examples of how Americans are struggling

Quickest way from Penn Station to the rest of manhattan and part of Brooklyn at 8am

One of the things I love about Tokyo station is it highlights just how vital operating models are to a station. The platforms are wide of course (~16 m or ~53 ft). It has 6 through tracks on 4 island platforms, which in the peak hour serves 56 southbound and 61 northbound trains in the peak hour.

The WaPo editorial board really isn’t sending its best anymore. Imagine thinking that actually allowing people to not have their time wasted is another tax on capitalism. Have they seen how the roads in northern Virginia work?

Waiting for the El at City Hall (hub of Philly’s whole regional network) for almost 10 mins, fire alarm BLARING. Everybody’s ignoring it, no alerts, trains running normally, no FD activity. Crazy how fire protection spends billions in transit construction cost, only to be treated like a joke.

this is one of the most amazing conversations I have ever seen on Bluesky. It’s a shame that the Louvre deleted his account because this should be framed

I built a tool last night to be able to "search/filter" for compatibility. Interestingly large swatches of the high speed network in Italy are not GB compatible but have GA and GI2. I can't find much about GI2 online and cross compatibility. If you filter for GB in Italy you get this:

Oh I see you’re enjoying your movie ball, did the editor make an Oscars?

And then the exterior of a typical US suburban office park—no where to walk to over break, no where to easily go out for lunch, just a long walk to and from the back of a parking lot. I understand why people resist returning to this.

To some extent, you see the same phenomenon in small metro cities like Rennes and Toulouse, where the the second (and 3rd for Toulouse) metro lines in particular bend and twist like snakes to cover as many destinations as possible on a wider corridor.

Interestingly, the phenomenon of bending and twisting rail transit alignments to try to serve as many places as possible with a single line is common in medium-sized French cities with small tram networks (1-2 lines), because there is a political demand to serve as many places as possible.

Gas above 7 dollars on the peninsula? Congrats to @caltrain.com

The WSJ has the funniest paywall. Ok, I need to subscribe, but you simultaneously syndicate all your articles to MSN? I'll just go there instead of paying Rupert.

“The idea that really caught fire was the construction of a monorail around the island of Manhattan with attaching spurs originating in the boroughs.”

Somebody tweeted this map at me

Wait, I'm actually really impressed by the design. It's broken up into three buildings, two separated by a paseo that will connect into future Culver City development.

Meanwhile would 11 billion even pay for a weeks income of households in Los Angeles county?

Lol, lmao even at Ari Flescher ~~hand waving~~ the subsequent 20 years in Afghanistan

Fun fact: in Italy in-person voting is the only option, but you can get a 70% discount on train tickets on a return ticket to your municipality of residence, but in case of inspection you have to show your voter card to the conductor, and it must be stamped to confirm you voted for the return trip.

un-effing-believable that the ***smell of an overheated circuit board*** led to hours of grounded flights in a busy region. I spent 8 hours at the airport yesterday before flight got cancelled and had me go home - had to get up at 4AM to catch the only available replacement to my destination

Which one will feature the ntsb recommending seatbelts on trains.

They may. I do not care to find out. If you don't sell bread you're not a fucking bakery, you're a cake shop

There are eight different businesses within a 15 minute walk of my house with "bakery" in their name and not one of them sells actual bread. America can be a very stupid country

The fact that the developer stuck an elevator in for just six units, unheard of in the US, suggests condo buyers reeeally don’t like walk-ups. Glad the elevator is viable for this project, but places without the Berkeley-level prices to pay for a North American stretcher elevator deserve condos too.

it's like finally seeing pacino and de niro sit down in heat

Just reading about Oman and…what the fuck? You’re telling me the gay sultan ended slavery in 1970 after he deposed his father?

… the BOWOW Act which would make it a deportable offense to treat DHS animals the way that former DHS Secretary Noem treats her dog. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Oh you think that little baby list can scare me I lived through Max Bauchus I don't feel anything anymore

oupsie, I got the graphic scale wrong. Here is the correct version

Drunk ass alignment lol.