@JGrantGlover
These things are crazy. Like I won't leave my bike outside downtown for fear of being stolen but people leave the keys to their home outside behind a flimsy lock you could learn to bypass with a 2-minute youtube video
My visiting friend from California this past weekend was impressed at how clean Chicago is and the relative quality of our transit and public spaces but he also immediately noticed how much more aggressive the drivers are here.
I swear some urbanists are making way too big a deal about NASCAR. It's a cool race that puts Chicago in the spotlight! They kept the lake front trail open! Drivers are the most inconvenienced. I find this race way less offensive than the daily traffic carnage in Chicago.
We're staring in the face of climate crisis after climate crisis, but this weekend Chicago's downtown parks will be a giant advert for the automotive and fossil fuel industry under the guise of "tourism" – an event that attracts barely as many spectators as a baseball game.
It's funny how we have this huge bus transit center right next to our intercity rail station, yet it sits empty while intercity buses all load in the bus lane on Jackson, making all the local buses get stuck in traffic.
Lol we were crossing Western Ave and he told me "in CA it's the law to stop for pedestrians at a crosswalk" and I was like yeah it is here too but everyone ignores it.
@the_transit_guy
@FischermanDan
the 3D mapping is done by LIDAR from aircraft passing over the city, taking multiple passes to get different angles. since cars are always moving, they're in different places on each pass and don't end up in the final composite image.