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My obsession with traffic signals' overdesign stems from the fact that they are relatively simple objects, and the bloat in their size and specs that burdens our built environment is particularly easy to see. Also, a symbol of the "quantity-over-quality" approach to design typical of NA engineering

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That's on top of the $1 billion in tariff charges the feds are sticking us with! gothamist.com/news/mta-say...

'MTA Faces $95.6 Million Fuel Hit This Year From Iran War' -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Not every occurance in a sports event should be a "lets check the tape in ultra slow motion" opportunity for litigation. Sometimes just have an experienced, knowledgable guy who was watching it make a determination.

Many people say Tampa is the Upper Midwestern part of Florida

Trying to think, for some reason, of what sports venues, past or present, have famous *addresses*. All I can think of is Wrigley Field at 1060 W. Addison, and maybe, kinda sorta, the old Montreal Forum at St. Catherine and Atwater. Excluding vanity addresses, any others?

Disneyland's castle was completed closer to the completion of Castle Neuschwanstein than today. And the musical Mamma Mia premiered closer to the release of the original song than today

The industry “experts” that have captured US/Canadian building codes will really just say things like ‘English people have to put out fires by themselves with buckets’

I think more Americans need to understand that their built environment is regulated by the groupthink of unaccountable organizations whose members think the sky is a different color abroad.

I’m biased and have friends there, but I honestly think Minnesotans are above average at social cohesion in the US because “doing things mildly against their will” is so much of their basic m.o.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

so overall what does it look like the the story was? did the voters from other right wing candidates in the run off not come home to Bolsonaro like was planned?

i keep thinking nov 3 is like, two months away not 9 days away

a somewhat underrated long term impact of trump is that a sizeable portion of people have never been politically active in a non-trump world. I have never cast a ballot in a presidential election that didn't have his name on it and I'm almost 30. He's politics to a huge chunk of people.

When LA Metro gave up on collecting and enforcing fares, Jeff Bezos didn't pay the bill. The military didn't pay. The LAPD didn't pay. Caltrans didn't pay. Riders paid, by receiving worse transit service. We pay either way. Might as well make transit better instead of worse.

turns out that voting is a very good way to kick right wing authoritarians out of power

Charging for things is so so so so underrated

*nodding* those are the Hampton Roads

The two minute warning in the first half is stupid

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

Great for people like me that look for what has the most calories for the least money

My only Cheesecake Factory take is that their commitment to scratch cooking (literally everything is made from raw ingredients inside the restaurant, no offsite prep or pre-packaging) is cool.

“p is worst in Minn.”

"please move this thing"

The panic of 1873 is really hard to conceptualize. It was actually the longest economic contraction in U.S. history!

How The Population of North America Fits Into Europe Full list: brilliantmaps.com/how-the-p...

If you are specialized in almost any capacity, the number of open jobs in the metro you live in at any one time is so small.

Tiny homes are like if an apartment were not walkable and worse, can’t believe these never take off as a product.

lmfao

Albertan poutine:

This shits just gonna continue until judges start locking up mid level dipshits for concempt

This is cool - volunteers from the WY Aviation Heritage League repainted an old airmail arrow this week. Learn more about the organization here: www.wyomingaviationheritage.org/general-1

Suburban Chicago gas prices don’t bode well for the Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate

We are observing effects of real changes in the economy that are not going to show up easily in the data because this is entire website of W-2-son-of-W-2 employees that forget that this is not how it has always worked for everybody.

One thing that I think we do tend to forget, though, as a person who does believe in data, is that this is official on-the-books data. One of the ongoing pressures that is very hard to measure is everything getting more digitized means less fraudulent activity.

recent MBTA 40ft diesel hybrid bus procurement is the most expensive* US bus procurement of the past decade per data from EnoTrans (enotrans.org/transit-bus-...) *adjusted for inflation, bus type (40ft diesel hybrid), procurements of >=25 buses

DC's public schools have a 5-day weekend leading up to and on Election Day, good thing no one in this city works in politics, government, or related fields because that would be really inconvenient for parents.

Looks like someone is sending political messages without a source disclaimer

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

it's such a stupidly american hubsristic thing. other states manage to have immigration and customs enforcement the general thing without insane abuses. it's a normal thing that governments do for obvious reasons. treat it like a actual policy/political problem instead of an original sin.

It was definitely the norm at the private bus co's back when I worked with them before the MTA Bus Co take over.

yeah weirdly fare evasion is not a problem on NJ jitneys and dollar vans. guess they just serve the wealthy

Can we have a serious conversation in the planning world about the proliferation of uber-woke/protest/communal representation language being used to oppose safe streets and transit? Because it's a real thing that's happening a lot and our systems are not equipped to deal with it.

I am sorry but the transit workers union allying with *donald trump* to protect *horse drawn carriages* is beyond parody

The La Salle Hotel?! It had two stairs! It was also 22 stories tall and had 1,172 guest rooms. This is what chairs of important ICC committees (not randos!) think is in the same universe as a small apartment building.