I wonder if you tacked on grade separating the Rainier Valley so they can go with automated trains how much extra it’d cost…
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I wonder if you tacked on grade separating the Rainier Valley so they can go with automated trains how much extra it’d cost…
They should cut out Tacoma and Everett and upgrade Sounder instead.
He got ahead of this in brilliant fashion. Meanwhile crickets from Brandon Johnson…
wait shit the YIMBYland graphic basically made this clear
No - it’s fascism. Basically Juche.
Why doesn’t anyone on the left in the UK get they can’t out-Tory the Tories?
NOW: Another grand jury refusal — this time a woman accused of threatening President Donald Trump. Judge Boasberg said last week the threats appeared to be the "rantings" of a woman with no ability to carry them out. A D.C. grand jury apparently agrees. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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IMO giving Sounder/Amtrak dedicated tracks between Tacoma and King St is a way better use of money than extending link to Tacoma.
I didn’t realize Brandi lives in Lafayette. That makes so much sense given her intense sign presence up here.
Our question: how do we reduce humanity’s carbon footprint while maintaining a high standard of living? Their question: How do we create wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible?
The same inherent aspect of cities that make them attractive to those of us looking to live more sustainably is attractive to those that worship at the altar of capital - efficiency. For any given resource input, a dense city gives you the most productive output.
Yeah not all right-YIMBYs necessary wind up in this weird carceral urbanism techno-fascist space, and not all left-YIMBYs can restrain themselves from unsustainable levels of value capture in pursuit of the perfect built environment, but there certainly are trends…
There’s two common paths to YIMBYdom: Environmentalism -> sustainable urbanism -> YIMBYism Libertarianism -> market urbanism -> YIMBYism It’s often easy to tell who is who…
That guy always gave me bad vibes - prime example of a single-issue zealot who’ll happy break bread with completely evil people who happen to agree on his one issue. Happy to be vindicated.
Which is why we need to abolish the filibuster and dispense with the half-measures that have defined the past 15 years of Democratic policymaking.
This is exactly why I’m roleplaying radical reconstruction on my Vic3 playthrough right now.
American liberals at least have a positive vision for what they are fighting for, even if they are on the back foot right now. Anyone left of center in British politics right now seems solely to care about assuaging reactionary psychosis over national decline.
Where did he grow up/go to college?
Why is the British left so shitty?
@lakshya.splitticket.org you sure about that?
It’s not “only subway entrances”, it’s anything that NYC’s processes put in front of a community board. Routine DHS-mandated bollards installation in places like Times Square doesn’t go in front of them. Not saying it’s rational, but the post-9/11 trauma is palpable.
9/11 broke a lot of people’s brains - which given the unprecedented scale of what happened is completely expected.
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That requires cashflow that the MTA simply doesn’t have. You can only bond for/borrow so much liquidity at a time.
beginning to think the right wing break with bush wasn't about war but about the fact that he genuinely thought they were building democracy
Lander doesn’t live in the district. Mark Levine is a good choice though.
My sense is that Ukraine has better trains than many of its more developed neighbors. The Ukrainian Railways at a glance seem superior to Poland, Romania, the Baltics, Slovakia, etc.
Judge Sooknanan: Are you aware that I have issued an order on the docket about the putative class? DOJ / Drew Ensign: I have not, your honor Judge Sooknanan: I want you take 5 minutes now to look at that order and circulate that through the govt/DHS (Hearing pauses)
Why is a “libertarian” party shaming consensual acts between adults?
The regular ones are miserable to ride, especially up and down the ridge that runs down the middle of Jersey City. The cheapest biking option still riding one’s own bike after all.
So glad to see my south side neighborhood going from the fringe of the Citibike system to a core area of the system with this expansion!
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Definitely excited to read this. Not train-weight related but I also remember a story about Metra Electric using acceleration tables from the 1930s to set speed limits for modern operations. To SEPTA’s credit the Silverliner V genuinely outperforms the IIs/IIIs/IVs.
What’s the actual goal of the people suing?
Why does the LIRR keep ordering rolling stock with worse performance than its predecessor?
I’m so confused. SEPTA can’t cut service, but SEPTA also can’t get its money and the plaintiffs insist the fiscal cliff is fake?
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right
They’ve made Trump irreplaceable. The coalition falls apart the minute he croaks.
Shutting down ICE is an unequivocal good.
Pritzker needs to throw in to prevent this outcome.
Now we just have to hope he doesn’t have a stroke that completely changes his personality, prejudices, and ideological leanings.
Those unused backdoor readers they refuse to activate infuriate me.
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
What a fantastic development. Historical icon Amoeba Music will build housing on its site and remain a music store (and preserve the famous People's Park mural). Pretty A+ all around. Thankfully, no CEQA for infill means this project can't be fucked with. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/28/a...
Would you count CSAO as a terminal railroad?
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
That ol’ New York-London spread isn’t just for market geeks anymore. 🤡 @joncooper-us.bsky.social
Redesigning Johnston Ave will make it safer. Narrowing travel lanes and adding protected bike lanes are proven traffic calming safety measures that will make the roadway safer for everyone.
Yeah it’s fundamentally about Amtrak not wanting to share the middle tracks more than they do. IMO it’s going to be near-impossible to accommodate Penn Station Access service without some limited degree of through-running with NJT.
It’s becoming less and less common. It seems they try to base most of the remaining straight diesels out of the Erie Lines yards, but there are a few left in Port Morris.
Also the most successful petrostate in the world practices a mantra of “don’t get high on your own supply”. (Norway)
Nothing says “traditional values” like having an asthma attack on the Back Bay platforms.
Sure, NextGen Acela looks great. But have you seen MBTA’s diesel-under-wire commuter trains?! 😡🤬😤
One of the few benefits of NJT’s awkward and expensive dual modes is that they have mostly eliminated running diesels under wire. Hackettstown trains will use electric motive power ad far as Dover.
London still has diesel trains! Chiltern Services are not electrified and worked solely by diesel trains. The GWR has multiple unelectrified branches in suburban London and still runs a mix of diesel and bi-mode trains for long distance trains to Bristol, Exeter, etc.
Lost Cause people want to emphasize how brutal the Union Army was to (white) southern people and the southern “way of life”. Normal people want to emphasize how evil the Confederacy was that they sent so many of their own sons to die to defend something as abhorrent as slavery. So no.
The U.S. has relied way too much on elite consensus to keep its democracy intact. Once that consensus was broken it became clear we do not have nearly enough constitutional and institutional guardrails.
Given NY exports their working class to us via housing policy it isn’t terribly surprising we have a higher unemployment rate.
Next up - university admissions will now be solely based on an exam of knowledge on Art of the Deal and The Apprentice.
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
If/when DC statehood happens they should be the first state to experiment with a parliamentary system.
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.
Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
One crew member in cab and one crew member working doors.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Well. Because of course, now we’ve got this.
Frontrunner and RTD are both proof-of-payment systems with two-person crews no matter the train size. Combine that with strong all-day bidirectional demand and you get good numbers.
HELL YES 160 MPH LET’S GOOOOO NextGen Acela squeezing every last bit of speed out of this infrastructure. And it didn’t feel like the train was going to tear itself apart.
This is why design matters.
I do think a lot of beltway Democratic lawmakers and their staffs treat it as an objective paper of record still, which is where we run into issues.
“He lives in a $2800 rent stabilized apartment! What a scandal!” Average middle class New York renter - “so do I!”
Donald Trump Howard Lutnick Jamie Dimon Stephen Schwartzman Donald Newhouse The Kochs …not a flattering list… Michael Bloomberg I give you though.
“Get Rich or Die Tryin’” does not get written if 50 Cent was from Philly or DC and not Queens.
It’s also downstream of the role the finance industry plays in the city. There’s a lot less shame around amassing and hoarding opportunity in the culture of NYC - it’s a city that celebrates hustle and doesn’t have a strong sense of noblesse oblige.
There are simply a LOT of small-c conservatives in NYC in a way there aren’t in other big blue coastal cities. You see it in the way NYC NIMBYs don’t feel a need to leftwash their rationale the same way as in Boston or SF.
There are individual journalists doing good work at the NYT, but it still conceives itself as a paper by and for elites. And as elite consensus has shifted right so has its editorial tone.
Agreed. The entire tone of the style and real estate sections gives this away. They fawn over establishment elites and glamorize privileged people making real estate decisions with their trust fund money.
How do you explain BS like the Zohran Mamdani SAT scores leaked to them by a white supremacist hacker or the series or multi-article anti-trans feature series?
If National Dems go down in flames and a new opposition emerges Mikie’s biggest challenger might be to her left.
Honestly our current party system might not be intact in 2029.
Update: it got funny again
It’s going to be lovely when Scutari’s STAY NJ washes away all the improvements to Nj’s credit rating made under the Murphy administration.
Yeah the legislature is going to make or break the Sherrill administration. And the current composition and leadership means break, not make.
William Penn is probably the worst school district in all of Pennsylvania - worse than Philly. It’s a bunch of rateable-starved lower middle class streetcar suburbs and PA provides virtually 0 equalization funding to cash-poor school districts.
I’m skeptical of their numbers if Jersey City isn’t on the list at all…
@3underscores.bsky.social might have a decent estimate for the Jersey City numbers.
Bergen-Lafayette in Jersey City is on track to be the new Bed-Stuy within a decade.
There’s a contingent of bad-faith pro-oligarchy people in Dem circles misleading people whose brains were broken by the 2016 and/or 2024 elections.
OH WE'LL RALLY ROUND THE FLAG BOYS, RALLY ONCE AGAIN SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM WE WILL RALLY FROM THE HILLSIDE, WE'LL GATHER FROM THE PLAIN SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
It’s too clean to be Philly.
Yeah there’s an archipelago of black middle class enclaves across NJ. The Plainfields, the Oranges, Willingboro, Somerset, Rahway, Union, Roselle, Teaneck, Mount Holly, etc. None of these are large enough to enter the national popular imagination though.
Community meetings have gotten a lot of attention in Jersey City after a presentation on proposed bus lanes turned rowdy. There is a long history of meetings being used to stop plans for everything from affordable housing to the restoration of habitats in Liberty State Park.
