PRITZKER ITS TIME

They also ripped out the lawn with moss and local grass and are replacing it with ???? Dude...

Oops turns out they didn't have a permit. Apparently a $1,400 fine

that's right bitches your ai boyfriends are making the pope fucking SICK

watching the Philadelphia thanksgiving parade because my parents dont have nbc lmao

someone remind me in about 2 hours when i get to my parents house

The kinds of databases: • Fancy files • 1970s stays winning • This would be so cool if it worked at scale • Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search

A few years ago I setup an ads-b receiver with an rtl-sdr and pointed it to flightaware without issue. Took me 30 minutes. Today I tried to do the same and had to give up because the fairly popular rtl-sdr v4 isn't supported by their software. I couldn't get it working after 3 tries!

As far as the brick work on this building is concerned, the Chicago & Northwestern is alive. Maybe not well, but certainly alive.

was able to piece together data from various passenger reports for atlanta and yeah there's absolutely merit in saying ORD has a chance at overtaking ATL some time in the next 15 years. Absolutely hinges on ORD 21 being at least partially completed tho

Made a slightly zoomed in version + one with zoom lines. Cool stuff

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED WHY ARE THERE THREE OF YOU

why hello

Metra is officially starting work on redoing the PTC braking algorithms for the Highliner 1s and 2s to support 79mph operation

Its been two days since this person last replied to me, but the battery F40s are a long dead project, right?

This GTFS feed is definitely something I haven't seen before, primarily because all of the trips into south station have duplicated times? Seemingly something to do with how im parsing calendar.txt, calendar_dates.txt, etc. Will have to investigate further tomorrow.

Whoever is in charge of the MBTA's GTFS...I just want to talk

ORD is *just* shy of overtaking DFW in terms of passenger traffic. Of course the dip in traffic from the shutdown still has to be seen, but I'm willing to bet that ohare will be the 2nd busiest airport in the US this year.

go check up on your local steelers fan since they lost to DA BEARSSSSSS

I just saw two 128s in a row, both completely empty. while I know getting to the busway can absolutely be a pain, there's definitely some merit to take it to soldier Field due to traffic.

I think a broadway L/subway line would be good, especially since there really isn't room for much of the line to build bus lanes

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

making a restaurant called "frozen bullshit" where nothing is fresh, everything is frozen, but at least its cheap

Love the enthusiasm but light rail on NDLSD is kind of silly. A dedicated higher-speed, limited-stop busway is the better transit solution for the Drive.

Seems like the CTA has started sponsoring traffic update spots on WBBM...but the first one I heard of them sponsoring was actually the orange line being fucked up. Nice going guys.

check clay higgins' hard drive

Smoking is not allowed in public buildings. A tree should know better!

Optimal user experience

The new owners of my parent's house (I grew up in it) took down the water oak that provides shade across the entire front yard. They're going to learn why that tree is there when Atlanta's summer heat hits them. IIRC the tree is older than the house and spared the saw when the neighborhood was built

just saw a nissan sentra with LARGE holes in the rotors that are definitely not meant to be there

TIL the fancy red line entrances are new and haven't always been there

One thing I've gotten good at is finding holes in definitions. My latest accomplishment: If you say Illinois is landlocked, your definition of landlocked probably also includes Italy.

I'm a big fan of the design language on the chili's website

What's the smallest city and/or metro area with a major sports team? If I had to guess it'd be Green bay with 107k city and 320k metro population.

where is bro GOING

Upon further inspection, two things: 1. Some of the locations listed on their website for online ordering are actually closed 2. There are seemingly locations in the new york and philly areas that are open, but aren't on boson markets online ordering system Per reviews, food is dry and not good.

From what I can tell there's only 10 Boston markets left in the US, with 4 of them in Philly, 2 in the Philly burbs (1 of which is in NJ), 1 in Buffalo, 1 in Newark (the other one), 1 in Cleveland's burbs, and finally one in Chicago's burbs (Melrose park). I might have to make a pilgrimage.

Fun fact: there are 158 train numbers reused by Metra across different lines. Seemingly the biggest "offender" is the Metra electric. While most of these trains with shares numbers operate at different time, some overlap (sometimes completely). This has made my life hell as a developer.

Seems like ORD's traffic growth has held steady, while DEN's shrinkage is slowing (but is still shrinkage), and DFW is shrinking faster. These are comparisons of the YTD numbers with the same ones last year. (I'm waiting on the DoA to respond to my FOIA request with september data)

today i remembered i have free will and make like 40 chicken cutlets

Word about the snow has definitely gotten around. In the 15 minutes ive been at the store, the number of people here has quadrupled. Went from 0 checkout lines to 2-3 minute waits at every line.

Have at it nerds

Occasionally I remember that Shady Maple is "only" a 2.5 hour trip from downtown philly and the next time I'm on the east coast I'd love to day trip out to Lancaster and make a trip to the buffet

Have the record show that an hour after I sent this post out lmao

what the fuck is going ON

Does anyone really know why the CTA's slow zones *keep* going up? I know they've been hiring more people for the track department for over a year and a half now and the slow zones keep creeping up.

Patiently waiting for them to release the slow zones map.

Just won a govdeals auction