Every year around tax season I'll admit I get a bit pissy in the vein of "Nicolas, 30 ans" because a lot of my tax money goes to the boomer gerontocracy.

It’s odd when you think about relative fame and critical reception, but has any architect since WWII had as much of an impact on the American public realm as Harry Weese?

While the Transbay Tube was being built, the distances to the worksite in the middle of the Bay became long enough (the tube is 3.6 miles in total) that some workers rode their bikes to work.

it must feel so good to be an mta conductor and slowly pull away from the station when somebody asks something you don't want to deal with

Take Amtrak

I think we're now able to build a pretty clear picture of the most likely mechanism of the train crash at Adamuz in Spain.

One of the weirdest things about the history of the District of Columbia was how strong support for Metro and opposition to in district highways was among the segregationist southerners who dominated the House Committee on the District of Columbia.

the contrast between Zohran and, like, Karen Bass is pretty remarkable. Zohran has a clear vision of a more affordable and sustainable city and forcefully supports pro-housing polices as a key part of that vision. Meanwhile, Karen Bass doesn’t seem to believe in anything in particular at all

We’re getting Gemini at work so i think grok fed edition is more of an internet meme than anything else.

Somehow I missed that Spain yesterday had the deadliest high speed rail crash in Europe in decades. Seems totally baffling too. Somehow the back two cars of a train derailed onto the opposite direction track.

Long Live Iran.

If this is true it must be one of the biggest massacres by a government of protesters - not in a civil war - in decades anywhere in the world

This law is so strict that they had to carve out Citi Bike, which would otherwise be covered (and which @commutinglarry.bsky.social says will still require require users to have a “permit” to ride, whatever that means?) www.nj.com/traffic/2026...

Even when you can’t believe they can do anything the loss takes something out of you.

Have we considered throwing before 4th down?

Minishinkansen joins the mainline Shinkansen! bonus to whomever figures out the station.

lol

this may be the most NYT headline ever written

unlike some of you, I never doubted that Stancil had that dog in him all along

The building is still there 55 years later. 👀

I just learned that someone added me to a "Bot" starter pack ..wtf??? I assure you, bots do not have the capacity to get this irrationally upset about the Buffalo Bills, or this excited about flavored coffee at TJ Maxx

It’s time.

It’s amazing how every enormous anonymous office building in the DMV is a short google away from telling you that it’s a “secret CIA facility.” So why wasn’t this built next to the pentagon metro?

The UK is allergic to integrating public transit outside of London

Whatever BL financial future may hold they did build the country's second busiest passenger rail corridor in a sprawled part of the country in under a decade.

Brightline's December numbers are out and it's ANOTHER record for the private pax railroad. Dec '25: 292,092, up 11% y/y Nov: 280,136 Oct: 260,370 Sept. '25: 227,851 Aug: 252,425 July: 255,472 June: 254,627 May: 256,633 April: 243,285 March: 280,003 Feb: 247,083 Jan: 266,346 Dec: 264,201

I've just remembered that Ald. Pat Dowell was a city councilor in 2008. She voted in favor of the deal to sell of the meters. The only five “no” votes came from Toni Preckwinkle, Leslie Hairston, Billy Ocasio, Scott Waguespack, and Rey Colon.

Thank you Leslie Knope!

I think what's particularly interesting about it is that it's coming at a time when the general mood in China is much sourer than before 2020, and the economy - while very marginally improving - a long way from the miracle years.

Honestly just happy Chris Hayes has read my name.

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

*JUDGE SAYS DOMINION ENERGY CAN RESUME WIND PROJECT TRUMP HALTED

To be clear, the finch light rail being shut down because of snow in Canada is nuts. I personally had to dig my household out of probably thousands of pounds of it and it wasn't fun but this is a literal rail system! Just feels like an extension of the mismanagement.

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

The "transit-dependent riders" line says it all: Metro fashions themselves as saviors doing politically unsavory work that could only face stiff opposition

Roberta Gratz was a personal friend of Jane Jacobs, and recently sold the Long Island City warehouse she inherited from her industrialist family for $5.2 million. She sold it to a tennis court operator, who gives lessons to yuppies who live in all the new high-rise towers. traded.co/deals/new-yo...

Where did this need for Alto to serve Peterborough come from?

1.26 million municipality, where less than 1% lives in apartments, is willing to radically densify, reduce parking mandates, and revise its building code 😄🎉

Per car, yes, not per train: OE = operating expenses VRM = vehicle revenue miles (by car) PMT = passenger miles traveled MNR OE/VRM: $26.63 MNR OE/PMT: $0.96 LIRR OE/VRM: $28.28 LIRR OE/PMT: $0.89 MTA Bus OE/VRM: $37.25 MTA Bus OE/PMT: $2.68 NYCT Bus OE/VRM: $41.77 NYCT Bus OE/PMT: $5.36

Sweden's new building code is raising the prescriptive height limit for single-stair apartment buildings from 16 stories to 20 stories. Ctrl+F "upp till 20 våningsplan" in this document (which you'll need to translate if you can't read Swedish) to learn more rinfo.boverket.se/BFS2024-7/do...

This alignment shows the problems of serving city centers without a mechanism for reuse and rationalization of legacy RoW. An example from Montreal itself of how this would help:

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

Fabulous @stephenjacobsmith.com post on the scarcity of groceries in NYC: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...

This is not a classical look...

“This is great, I get to bend down for a cool drink of water and reach up to pick fresh fruit whenever I want it”

I'm sorry that's it's real name?

It’s interesting because these are probably all procured via federal contracts. I’m not even sure beyond directly witnessing who picks up the cars if you can know a specific agency rented them.

Finally put all of my microblogged thoughts into one place! Why groceries in NYC are so expensive and low-quality, and what can be done to fix it...

Why are supermarket prices actually so high in New York City? The great @stephenjacobsmith.com does a deep dive into the real-world forces that keep many grocery stores out. We promise you'll learn a thing or two or five. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...

We have regulations to make sure childcare is safe and appropriately located in BC. For whatever historical reason we also have a process where the planning department second guesses everyone and additionally solicits feedback from area misanthropes. What if we just didn’t?