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Every time they say "worst nuclear accident in American history" they should add "comparable to the 47th worst industrial accident in Guangdong Province in Sept 2024 month to date"
You don't hate the media enough
US nuclear plant Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history, is to restart operations in a deal to sell power to Microsoft
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"The worst type of slum landlord is ... a poor old woman who has invested her life’s savings in three slum houses, inhabits one of them, and tries to live on the rent of the other two—never, in consequence, having any money for repairs."
@nicoleamurray
I’ve spent a lot of time in landlord tenant court, and the scummiest landlords are ALWAYS the mom and pop types who own a couple of apartments or houses. I’d rather negotiate an exit with a corporation rep’d by a lawyer 100 times out of 100
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"Surely the most amazing [transit] service is one where the passengers don't even think about the timetable"
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Actually this is a sufficient warning sign for a speed camera:
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"Bad instrumentation and a failure to directly measure and display important parameters, combined with some fairly elementary errors, led operators to acquire a faulty understanding of plant state, which caused billions in facility damage and 0 deaths."
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Ironically,
#wmata
ridership grew not because of "innovative ways to serve customers," but rather boring competence
I haven't waited more than 6 minutes for a Metro train in as many months
RUN MORE BUSES AND TRAINS -- the simple trick
WMATA: Ridership Up, Crime, Fare Evasion Down: As ridership grows, the agency will continue to incorporate innovative ways to serve customers throughout the region and keep them safe on their journey.
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This isn't an excuse! It's bad when safety critical systems don't exhibit resilience as to human error and single-point instrument malfunction. And everyone knows this was bad. So it was fixed!
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The best train names are numbers, since a successful passenger rail system runs trains so frequently you can't give them names
okay is it just us or are Pere Marquette, Blue Water, and the Wolverine some of the best train names ever to exist?
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How 101-level was the error? Well, when there was the equivalent of a shift change, and a new person walked into the control room, the instant reaction was along the lines of "WTAF are you doing?!?!" and proper steps were immediately taken.
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"There's an old pilot joke about cockpit automation that says the ideal flight crew is a pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches anything."
Don't do something -- just sit there and think.
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Eliminate traffic?! If you had a free chauffeur would you use your car more or less?
When self driving eliminates traffic, LA will be incredible. If LA had real and efficient mass transit it’s also be amazing.
At 5am it takes 16 minutes to get somewhere it normally takes 30 with “no traffic”. 45-60 in rush hour.
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Is there any reason we shouldn't just instantly brain drain every single NHS doctor and nurse by giving them automatic green cards and license recognition?
We need to open up the borders with the UK. Any UK citizen with a higher education should be able to move to the US, purely on humanitarian grounds so they don’t have to suffer like this
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So (among many other changes), there are now people whose specific role in the event of a non-normal situation is to *not* be directly involved in manipulating controls and reacting/responding.
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@wtyppod
George Kistiakowsky, who used a dental drill to repair the Trinity device's lenses: "You do not worry about it. If fifty pounds of explosives goes in your lap, you won’t know it."
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Undercompensation for bodily injury and death is the largest subsidy of motor vehicle operation -- bigger than carbon/pollution externalities, free parking, and road construction/maintenance excess of excise taxes and user fees
“The driver who killed two-year-old Seamus had just $100,000 of liability coverage per victim. The hospital charged the couple’s insurance $180,000. Before the DuBarrys saw a penny, their health and car insurers claimed the entire amount.” 🚘💸
@dlknowles
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?!?! Transit absolutely must be travel time competitive
This is delusional excuse making for transit incompetence
Existing transit riders do not all care about speed.
Existing transit riders (and non-Transit riders for that matter) care more about Availability + Reliability of the service, because that it was what makes it useful for them. Speed, convenience and comfort play second fiddle.
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@BearCurd
Pretty much
If the nukes had been painted "the children of Nanking send their regards" would you feel better or?
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@HikoukiHikouki9
Oh they definitely use Metro.
You better believe the contractors know, by name, the decision makers and support personnel they want to reach
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FREQUENCY increases ridership
"reliable" service is a scam - a bus an hour, even if it arrives on time every time, is desperation transit
People like to commit crimes in places where 1) they’ll get away with it & 2) there aren’t many people. You know what makes public transit safe? Increased ridership. Actually having the system utilized & people on it reduces crime. You know what increases ridership? Reliability.
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The YIMBY agenda is simply "decriminalize building homes"
easy-to-agree-with yimby platitudes like “housing at all levels” are cover for their real agenda to let developers/big real estate call all the shots and buy off public policy
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Unfair comparison - try it in a country with property rights, labor and environmental laws
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They did it again!
In just 121 hours (5 days), Lyon, France, built a tunnel under a highway used by 150k vehicles/day as part of the new tram line T10 project; fun fact, they even finished 28 hours ahead of schedule!
This is how construction is done in world-class countries
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@whstancil
I mean, sure the direct translation of the motto means ethnic cleansing but do they really mean it?
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@sam_d_1995
This is at least as bad as filing the serial number off a firearm right? Why not jail time?
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Why would realtors, used boat salesmen, dentists, and economically anxious family owned small businesses desire this agenda?
Imagine if the GOP presidential nominee were running on a hard-core "it's time to build" platform: permitting deregulation, energy and housing abundance, big-time science funding, even the orbital economy. Instead, we get kvetching about stolen elections and trade shocks. 😵💫
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24 hour bookstores with cats but no housing, sounds about right for deranged central planning
"See that field full of old trees? I could buy that field and cut down the trees and build apartments cheaply and rent them expensively. People need apartments"
Bro, what the fuck is wrong with your brain? We already got enough houses. You just don't own all of them.
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"Metro has collaborated closely with our contractors and vendors to expedite the installation process and minimize design criteria."
Minimizing design criteria!
Randy Clarke has been a godsend for WMATA. There's nothing but Ws after Ws
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“What drives ridership is really simple: frequent, safe, reliable service,” Clarke said.
Why is
@wmataGM
the only U.S. transit executive who says this?
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Audible seat belt reminders provoked such an immediate backlash that it took Congress less than 10 months from NHTSA making them mandatory to prohibiting them from sounding more than 8 seconds
BIG ROAD SAFETY NEWS: Our bill requiring new cars to alert drivers when going >10MPH above speed limit (SB 961) passed last night & is on its way to the Governor!
Roads deaths are spiking in CA & speed is a big factor. This technology is proven to slow people down & save lives.
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No, they figured that out back in the 40s.
The 1640s.
The us military must already be using AI to mathematically structure the timing and angles for artillery barrages right?
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Nothing short of room temperature superconductivity, anti-gravity, or teleportation will make steel on steel rail obsolete
@neider_tom
Also, big minds would realize that by the time any HSR came into being, new technologies would render it completely obsolete.
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It would be strange - but not unheard of - if one reason Metro looks to have lost a step over the last month or two is simply that the GM wasn't on the spot, using it every day
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California doesn't have to make hard choices
One simple trick: decriminalize housing production
Our tax base is shrinking. Our population is shrinking.
California and cities like San Francisco have massive deficits.
Massive cuts are needed to get onto a path of sustainability.
More taxes will only push more long time residents and companies out of the state which will
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This can be done unilaterally! And unless the UK implements exit permits, you have to imagine that an instant 3x-4x salary boost will attract many.
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@uckema
Assuming that poor operating practices are unalterable while ignoring the one key advantage that is eternal: the almost entirely elastic deformation at the wheel-rail interface for steel-on-steel trains
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Regulation of coastal vessels and the coastal trade was in fact the 11th law that Congress passed
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"Based on range, electric buses will be planned for 9 trips per day, diesel buses closer to 38"
Transit system shouldn't be allowed to consider their own emissions
RUNNING MORE BUSES is how you get mode shift away from cars
(h/t
@UsesTransit
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Reminder: The French short haul flight ban for city pairs with < 2.5 hour HSR connections has the enormous loophole that there have to be late enough departures that you can spend an entire workday in the destination city *and return the same day*
@the_transit_guy
Data point: I traveled from Boston to NYC on business last week. I flew because it was much faster; not only is flying faster than Acela, but there were no Acelas after 5:25 pm.
The choice of a 7:00 flight arriving at 8:30 or a 6:45 train arriving at 11:00 was a no-brainer.
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No world-class transit system is fare free
This is magical thinking
Every dollar that a transit system can beg, borrow, steal, or cajole from riders should go towards SERVICE : RUNNING MORE BUSES AND TRAINS
@enforcelawsNYC
Boston’s been thinking about free mass transit for awhile. Much smaller cities have gone this way already. Problem here in NYC would be overcrowding. Very likely overwhelming. Even if the MTA was the best run organization ever, they just don’t have the stock.
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Orwell: "The worst type of slum landlord is ... a poor old woman who has invested her life’s savings in three slum houses, inhabits one of them, and tries to live on the rent of the other two—never, in consequence, having any money for repairs."
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Installing air conditioning in every subway station would be a quarter trillion dollar project
I have constituents fainting on 100 degree subway platforms while waiting over 15 min for trains. At these temperatures, the Gov’s decision to cancel congestion pricing & defund the MTA has become not just reckless & shortsighted, but cruel & dangerous, putting lives at risk
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@CollieYimby
The peculiar thing about property tax is the availability of unusually efficacious and prompt means of enforcement
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@maxdubler
To repeat: VERs very effectively kneecapped the *American* domestic automobile industry in the long run
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LESS MONEY ON STATIONS means MORE MONEY FOR TRANSIT SERVICE
The Oslo metro has some of the most bare bones stations I’ve seen on rapid transit. At Munkelia, there’s no concourse, no elevator (ramps only), and no canopy on the outbound platform (which serves mainly people getting off the train since this is almost the end of the line.)
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Any transit system where it "saves money" to go fare-free (because the cost of fare collection exceeds fare revenue) is already doomed -- so the goal is no longer to provide quality transit but rather deliver lifeline transit for truly desperate people as efficiently as possible
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The mark of an account with high quality followers is that > 50% of the replies to this tweet contain a reference to the Onion Futures Act
Whoa, I just learned that India has a strategic onion reserve that it's tapping now in order to stabilize prizes cc:
@tracyalloway
@IsabellaMWeber
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Degrowth = genocide and famine
there is no way around it: we have to reduce energy usage. even the most "renewable" electricity sources have significant and at this point unacceptable ecological cost
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There have been 4 basic innovations in hotel room design:
1. Half-open, door-less showers
2. Wall-mounted furniture
3. Open (i.e., no closet, no drawers) clothing storage
4. Bathroom consumables in fixed dispensers
All aimed at reducing housekeeping time per room
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Related: the secret sauce of Google Advanced Protection is not simply that they require hardware keys (to prevent phishing) but that they commit to making the account recovery flow *painful and deeply inconvenient*
Co-signed. Every cell phone in America is vulnerable to the weakest link among X0,000 call center or retail employees who make approximately McDonalds wages, and due to the magic that is “billionaires and homeless people use same cell phones”, ~impossible to opt for better here.
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"The documents reveal a dizzying maze of jobs, many of which do not exist on projects elsewhere....In New York, 'underground construction employs approximately four times the number of personnel as in similar jobs in Asia, Australia, or Europe.'"
On the ground in Rome under the Coliseum! We're two international cities full of tourists, visitors and the every day working people who make our cities run.
Sharing our ideas and accomplishments on infrastructure, public transit and everything big cities need will only make us
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Here's one sure sign you're the designated fall guy:
Were you involved in the decision making process during which the fall guy was explicitly designated? No? It's you!
Remember kids, when you get assigned the special kinda illegal project at work – it's not because you're on the inner circle – it's because you're the expendable fall guy weakling who will misinterpret inclusion to illicit conspiracy as the illusion of respect you crave.
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@FirstClassDuck
@jwilcox79
The kulak class - small business owners, etc - hates DMVs and TSA for the same reason: they don't get their accustomed deference and.l solicitude
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@BruceBartlett
@fawfulfan
Generally, yes an illegal business can deduct routine business expenses. But not if the expense is itself illegal. And drug trafficking businesses have a special rule that disallows all deductions.
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To be clear, decimating mediocre family owned restaurants is good
Bigger problems here. If you’re talking about paying a living wage, keep in mind the living wage in Los Angeles if you have 2 children is $61.73 per hour. By your logic everyone should be paid that. That’s just not possibly for most biz. So what’s the answer then? Can’t always
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The irony here is Operation Warp Speed was a genuine success, and a more conventional administration might have let the incompetent public health establishment inflict further delay
Trump: "I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine or mask mandate"
Though all political leaders are failing to address the ongoing harm of COVID, this is a critical reminder the election could make public health worse and increase the risk of future pandemics.
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Again, which of the best transit systems in the world is fare free? And does the answer to that question say something important and interesting about whether U.S. transit systems striving for excellence should prioritize that goal?
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Curiously, insurance isn't unaffordably expensive in countries with much higher (and properly so) third party liability minimums
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"The murder rate in subways is virtually identical to the above-ground murder rate" won't do the trick, despite what urbanists think
~Everything we love about urban life, including public transit, depends for its continued success upon local government maintaining order.
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It's probably causing $5000 a year in damage
The unit stinks
There is simply no way my dog is doing an extra $500 A YEAR in damage or wear and tear. I already put down a deposit! It is already legal to bill/sue me for damages exceeding the deposit! You’re just being greedy.
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The golden age of Twitter was 2011-2021, from roughly the live tweeting of the bin Laden raid ("hey, what's up with the helicopter noise in Abbottabad?!") to the availability of the covid vaccine
@bobbyfijan
@janrosenow
This place is a decreasing annuity. My whole career has been built on social media so I don’t think I can afford to invest resources here anymore.
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Passenger lounges?
Incompetent U.S. train systems pretending to be airlines
JUST RUN MORE TRAINS and a few benches
Amtrak wants to convert some of Union Station's retail spaces into lounges for passengers.
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5 minute walk to a bus stop served by a bus an hour between 7am and 6pm, weekdays only is desperation transit
i bet most would be shocked to discover this much of LA is within 5 minute walk to a transit stop. this city is really a sleeping giant if it were to commit to broad mixed-use density rezoning supplied with more transit frequency to their existing lines.
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Except it doesn't? 70,000 people died in the 2003 European heatwave. Air conditioning good!
@nullptrgray
@bambipotf
Europe has a much higher standard of living than the US with half our energy use. It is not a radical idea to cut energy-use rather than cut down ecosystems.
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Wants revolution yet making microwave tray revolve to heat up a frozen meal is beyond them
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It's very simple:
Discretion + monopoly - accountability = corruption
Always, anywhere
The new law contains a head-scratching loophole that acts as an invitation for law enforcement to excuse the behavior, especially when they encounter one of the most prolific abusers of license plate obstruction: other members of law enforcement.
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CTA opex 2019: $1.4 billion
CTA opex 2022: $1.4 billion
CTA capex 2019: $425 million
CTA capex 2022: $696 million
Half the service for the same $$$
■ Scheduled trips in 2019: 802,331
■ Scheduled trips in 2023: 530,924
■ Actual trips in 2023: 454,051
Shame.
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The RUNNING MORE BUSES AND TRAINS difference
We call this graph "the Randy Clarke Difference"
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Caption: string line diagram for 1985 Tokaido Shinkansen midday service
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Impound the car for the first offense, jail for all subsequent ones
The number of unreadable license plates evading tolls and traffic fines increased by 30% between April and this month, costing the city up to $200 million annually.
Read more:
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I hope Rome does not learn from NYC practices on transit and infrastructure
On the ground in Rome under the Coliseum! We're two international cities full of tourists, visitors and the every day working people who make our cities run.
Sharing our ideas and accomplishments on infrastructure, public transit and everything big cities need will only make us
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Nuclear provides 75% of electricity in France (with wind and solar accounting about 12%). It's the country where you least have to fret about energy consumption!
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan
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FREQUENT AND RELIABLE SERVICE
Still can't get over how good the DC bus ridership recovery has been—100,000 more trips in June 2024 than June 2019, and weekend ridership is up more than 25%.
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@uckema
Only the teleporter or room temperature superconductivity will make steel on steel obsolete
Trains are incredibly absurdly obsolete technology.
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"the stop sign camera was found to be too sensitive" LMAO
So there should be plenty of videos from issued violations where the car came to a complete stop, right?
@Boenau
@nickiejordan
I mean, the stop sign camera in Petworth that generated one million dollars in Nov & Dec 2020 alone after getting upgraded was eventually found to be too sensitive, but I guess let's all pretend that that can never be a possibility
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It was exactly the same as Chernobyl except for being totally different, yes
If you don’t know what TMI is, it is the worst nuclear disaster to ever happen in the United States and it actually had the same problem as Chernobyl except someone was able to stop it before it got any worse
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Amtrak doesn't have PDF timetables. What a shambles of a passenger rail system.
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Wouldn't it better to run more buses? THE RIDER DOESN'T CARE WHAT FUELS THE BUS
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Which of the best transit systems in the world are fare free?
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What a coincidence
@Super70sSports
The worst is in canada we have "school zones " (any area remotely near any school) where you can only drive ten miles per hour . Tickets are hundreds of dollars. In 8 years of school not one kid in my neighborhood ever came close to getting hit by a car. Another tax grab
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Tons of stories about "revenue generating" stop sign cameras in DC and alleged miscalibration -- but funnily enough, even though the tickets have a video link to the violation, nobody's ever shown one where the car actually comes to a stop
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Concepts like motonormativity, car brain, stroad, etc. have done immense damage to effective urbanism
𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 [𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the state of double standards we apply to the car-dominated status quo in the face of potential change.
Check out this great video by
@si_richardson
of
@gcntweet
on how we are all brainwashed:
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@SwiftOnSecurity
That's why the cost benefit on mandatory electronic stability control (particularly as to oversteer) is so lop sided.
ESC reduces fatalities from loss of control accidents by 40% and the marginal cost to install on top of antilock brakes is $50
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Doomed
More service is better than fare free service
Delivering top notch transit is an equity necessity. 70% of
@GRTCTransit
’s riders are Black, 45% have household incomes under the federal poverty line of 25k, and 92% earn under Virginia’s median income. Most ride the bus to work. This is why making people pay fares is not fair!
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@opinonhaver
That's okay you can just call your private protection agency's rapid response hotline and they'll invoke on your behalf their escalation and re-insurance treaties
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@SwannMarcus89
Their check "clears"
You give the truck driver the $
In 3 weeks, the bank tells you the check was stolen / altered. You owe your bank $15,000
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Can congestion pricing be approximated by eliminating free on street parking in Manhattan, pricing residential parking permits at $300/month, and imposing a 200% excise tax on parking lots/garages and rideshare?
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Open gangways on the 8Ks are something we owe entirely to Randy Clarke
“One of the things the senior team and I’ve been talking about is how do we get our agency to be as close as we can to international and domestic best of the best standards and operate that way,” Clarke said
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This might be worse than the Map
The production case for rent control:
There's a shortage of loans, supplies, & workers.
When new rich residents create demand for housing, steer those dollars towards funding new homes, rather than non-essential renovations of old ones.
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@tomroussey7news
Force the closure in what sense? What lessons can we learn from international best practices? Do the best performing transit systems in the world close for months at a time for projects of similar scope and proximity?
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