Sic Transit PHL

It’s pronounced cyclist.

The efficient half of the parking at the Cambridge Tesco's.

The inefficient half of the parking at the Cambridge Tesco's.

Or they could do what this Tesco's I recently visited does. (These two photos are taken from the same spot, with the photographer (me) rotated 90º.)

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The cover of Donald Shoup's book, "The High Cost of Free Parking".

But point 1 flows directly from point 2. Your money isn't going to fund the ground rent on redundant parking lot.

The traffic records being set on the Northern Sea Route this summer are no accident.

Woah. Camden's citywide microtransit has averaged 140 rides a day since it launched in June 2023. By comparison, this half hourly, stupid looking squiggly loop carries over 700 rides a day.

Worse yet, bus 452 has four vehicles. Camden loop has EIGHT! (Started with 5)

Via Inc. 💘 stupid politicians

The NYTimes wisely hired Anna Griffin, one of the best journalists in Portland, as the head of its Pacific Northwest Bureau

No bike lane from Jeffery Young; no state budget from Kim Ward | Shackamaxon In this week's column, Jeffery “Jay” Young takes councilmanic prerogative to new lows, NYC outdoes Philly, and Kim Ward dumps the budget for the Emerald Isle.

www.inquirer.com/opinion/jay-...

That *would* make sense, but Camden has one problem on the demand side and one problem on the supply side. The demand-side problem is racism, and the supply-side problem is the Norcross family.

Couple of interesting things in the DVRPC technical committee presentation from this month

First is a NJT report about TOD at Pennsauken TC theorizing a possibility of 379 to 567 units able to be supported in the area

Those poor bastards.

This is gonna do numbers

Someone at Embraer needs to swallow their ego and shrink the E2 (E170-E2?) so they can sell to fuel- and PaxEx- conscious US regionals. They've already gambled and lost, thoroughly, on anyone ordering the E175-E2.

The A220 was always meant to be a mainline aircraft. The real problem is that Embraer built the E175-E2 for 90 pax, not 76, meaning that even if a US-based airline pulled a CRJ-550 and pulled seats out and gave it a paper derate, the newer, more fuel-efficient planes are too heavy to fly here.

We've repeatedly chosen, as a country, to have the feeder airlines as part of the commercial aviation ecosystem, and the unions have (grudgingly) consented. So, bug.

Never mind Toulouse/Hamburg-assembled Airbuses. When was the last time an American factory completed a 50- or 76-seater? Goodbye to all the regional airlines and their CRJs and Embraers.

If the merchant maritime industry insists on keeping all of those as one giant package, then patience from shippers (i.e. the other 99% of America) is eventually going to run out and the entire law is going to get scrapped.

The clauses of the Jones Act requiring ships engaged in cabotage to be US-flagged, US-owned, and US-crewed are defensible; we have similar laws for trucks and airplanes. The clauses that require such ships to be US-built and made from US-sourced steel are very much *not*.

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

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The original terms of the Treaty of Shackamaxon are unknown, but are widely believed to include cession of land rights to William Penn on favorable terms for the Lenape, else Penn's failsons wouldn't have hunted down and destroyed all copies of the Treaty.

Treaty of Shackamaxon - Wikipedia

It's all over the place in the States, including here where it's the clear sign of an Indigenous-rights dilettante, since the history is... far more complex than that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...

really want to hear the PA GOP explain how this problem could be fixed with additional efficiency measures, futzing around with management, and austerity

YouTube video by DashTransit What is SEPTA GO? - How to Transit with DashTransit

Apparently, SEPTA has started receiving the microtransit buses

youtu.be/SxehsnnFQPA?si…

Sneak Peek: SEPTA's Reimagining Regional Rail Agenda SEPTA's proposal could increase service by more than 100%, while doubling regional rail ridership

SEPTA released some info about their Reimagining Regional Rail reform proposal on a TRB webinar. Some details on the Build Philly Now Substack buildphillynow.substack.com/p/sneak-peek...

Dem state AGs need to be keeping track of illegal acts of brutality committed by federal agents and be ready to launch prosecutions accordingly ASAP

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Mr. Mamdani, I hope you and your staff will find inspiration from Seoul’s effort to prevent rapid transit deaths with Platform Scree Doors

I watched a video of a Ukrainian woman with catgirl ears on her helmet along with a trans pride flag patch drop an artillery strike on an ruf position and blow up a dozen guys

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses.

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