"It's complicated." For the city tram system we've basically agreed that the standard is a platform for two trams + a passing loop. In practice we often make do with less, especially at older termini. Our trams have also grown from 20 metres to 27.5 or even 35 m for some lines.

just had one of those sudden thoughts like "oh shit its july 4th, scifi channel twilight zone marathon is on i should watch it" and then was like "wait i've had every episode of the show sitting on a hard drive for 19 years or so there is no need for such a marathon even if it still exists"

If you're in the Westimster area of London be extremely careful. Yesterday a tourist was approached but what they though was a helpful lady who offered them a drink and they immediately felt drowsy and when he woke up he had been made Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and NI

Not five pm yet…

America never really went for the “Fourth of July Avenue” thing did it the way the French do

Requiring for-profit developers to rent a percentage of new homes to poor people at a loss is bad, kludgy neoliberal policy that attempts to outsource a key state function to private market actors. Instead of this de facto tax on new housing, the state should tax property to fund housing subsidies.

So close! This is actually the opposite of the lesson of HS2.

1/9 SCMP: "In recent years, the central government has been trying to ease residency restrictions. However, analysts warned that local authorities might have different priorities and be reluctant to implement the changes for financial reasons." sc.mp/otmw8?utm_so...

every aspect of traveling through poland is just dreadful. train from ukraine arrives on time to the polish transfer station, but the train to warsaw is 80 minutes delayed. get on a commuter train to lublin, transfer there to warsaw. train arriving into warsaw also late!!!

Os 16 das oitavas-de-final da Copa: 7️⃣ Europa 🇫🇷🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇭🇧🇪🇵🇹🇪🇸 4️⃣ América do Sul 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇴🇵🇾 3️⃣ América do Norte 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇦 2️⃣ África 🇲🇦🇪🇬

Fun Fact about the Gordie Howe Bridge: if it had not been built by the Government of Canada, CP and an Ontario pension plan had a scheme to convert the Michigan Central rail tunnel into a tolled truck route and then bore a new full clearance rail tunnel. However, taxpayer highway largesse won out

I think the most remarkable thing is that Cabo Verde ended up too good to just walk away happy with a moral victory in a loss. I just incredible stuff. Fucking sports, bloody hell.

Larry is helping and I will not hear a word said otherwise.

Fox talking like Argentina will draw confidence from this might be the most insane thing I’ve heard. How on earth do you think Cabo Verde will be the hardest game of the tourney for them?!

that guy? Travis Kelce

lord please

Credit where credit is due, this is a fair assessment of the generational divide by Marqueece Harris-Dawson.

Problem: urban areas are not where you want chip factories (very low jobs per acre) or solar farms. Most Biden investment went to red areas because the things we wanted to invest in were not well suited for urban cores.

My only useful insight is that whatever happens, English will ultimately crash out in a gut-wrenching unnecessary way just as soon as they've got far enough in to give everybody hope

The greatest thing about this World Cup for me is that I can do my usual clueless mouthing off about strategy and football history and many of the excited Americans around me mistake me for a soccer expert rather than a guy who only watches football once every four years

Thankfully AIA Michigan was unsuccessful in its efforts as the MI legislature passed their set of single-stair bills today to allow single-stair buildings up to four stories! Heads to Gov. Whitmer’s desk for her signature next.

Leeds United excellence

I feel like this is a column that can only truly be written by someone from a country that enters the tournament not just with no hope of winning it, but concept of having hope of winning it.

Round of ‘16 so far (aka the beginning of the knockouts for 40 years before this.): UEFA: 6 CONCACAF: 3 (all hosts CONMEBOL: 2 (with 2 to play) CAF: 2 (with 2 to play) AFC: 0 Oceania: 0 (with none in the round of 32)

no Asian teams in the Round of 16 really drives home how stagnant the continent has gotten in competition

A large part of this is we are the highest earning state level jurisdiction. We obviously deserve federal representation, and the republicans will come to regret not negotiating for something reasonable following models of other federal states when we have statehood in a few short years.

Australians rapidly innovating on Uruguayan tactics

This is an interesting example of design trade-offs and of the concept of "future proofing". Signaling-wise, Rennes's VAL could theoretically already get to 60 sec, but it was limited by the fact that, to save money, the JFK terminus was scaled diwn to built single-track back in the 1990s.

Rennes, France will increase frequencies on its Metro A Line to every 60 seconds (down from every 80 seconds), perhaps making it the most frequent metro in the world. The automated light metro line has 140,000 daily riders, in a city with a population of 230,000 (Line B carries ~80,000/day).

Now they are spending €140 million to upgrade the terminus with two platforms, a reversing tail, improved circulation etc. That would have cost less to build from day one. BUT On day one the project was on a tight budget and politically on shifting grounds, so this saving was necessary.

Can the Soccer Ball Speak: A Dialogue Toward Postmodern Object-Oriented Ontology (UPenn Press, 2027)

“[Seattle] Councilmember Eddie Lin, a land use attorney with the city before his election, wants to speed up [the comprehensive plan adoption] process by limiting administrative appeals from citizens and businesses.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

People mad about VAR and the final Croatian attack being ruled offside need to realize in the pre-VAR world there’s a very decent chance the play would have been called offsides anyways as the linesman would have simply made an educated guess on whether number 20 made contact with the ball.

The Logan Airport Remote Terminal at Framingham could just be the just the first of a network of terminals with bag drop and security across the Boston suburbs. One is already in the works in the southern suburb of Braintree. byerussell.substack.com/p/the-return...

You shouldn’t be able to play for an alternate national team if your dad is another country‘s best player ever.

“Switzerland are the biggest sleepers in the knockout stages” Well yea they’ll be eliminated in the round of 16.

Lots of casual American fans 1) dislike the ticky tack offsides rule (or the whole rule) 2) dislike Cristiano Ronaldo 3) like endgame hijinks 4) are salty about VAR because of the red card

I'm fine with it. I think the general indication is people love it when refs get stuff right, and the group of people who are like "1/20 calls being wrong are ok" is a distinct minority.

The late regulation and extra time goals of this cup have been bananas.

Single-stair up to four stories/16 units would go well with no parking requirements up to 16 units. Hopefully Connecticut can get it done in 2027 now that the IBC is changing anyway.

Yeah can’t say it wasn’t deserved.

Gonna need the offside simulation line for that one

Derek Rae boldly socializing into English speakers that “seleção” does not exclusively refer to the Brazilian national squad.

You Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I have a proposition for you: if you excommunicate JD Vance I will come out of spiritual retirement and re-Catholicize. That way your numbers stay they are. I don’t want to put a clock on it, but I’d prefer sooner rather than later

the "movie theater" one is just straightforwardly deceptive — the reason the total number of theaters shrunk is because consumer preferences moved to multiplexes with more screens from small theaters — the number of total screens exploded in the 1990s and only declined slightly due to covid

I really strongly suspect this has the arrow of causation backwards. There are fewer places to socialize because there’s less demand for them (because of the proliferation of screens, ultimately supercharged by COVID)

Crazy that Spain was the first champion in the past 20 years to win a knockout stage game after winning the tourney.

I had always assumed that Site C Dam was an exceptionally enormous project given all the hubbub only to learn that it’s not even the most powerful generating station on the Peace River. It’s 1.1 GW less than half the power output of the next largest dam (Revelstoke, 2.48 GW)

Portugal having a footballer who died driving a Lamborghini dangerously really emphasizes how one of the most unaccounted for tail risks in sports is that you’re letting an idiot 20 something with way too much money drive.

underrated sister tweet to this one