Matt da Silva

Yersi Citi

How are the platforms at Baltimore Penn?

Generally only the big Eastern railroads were well-capitalized enough to be making investments in the 30s and 40s during the Depression.

Aside from the PRR, the DL&W also invested heavily in grade separation, building bypasses of alignments with bad engineering, and suburban electrification.

There are a few Keystones a day that terminate at 30th St, as does the NJT Atlantic City Line.

My statement on Trump's strikes on Iran.

It is possible to believe two things at once: That the long-suffering people of Iran deserve freedom from their despotic leaders, and that a bombing campaign by the current highly corrupt authoritarian government of America is unlikely to bring it.

That’s going to be nigh-impossible if it’s actually a useful tool at all.

openAI saying that the USG consented unconditionally to the conditions which Hegseth alleges make Claude a national security risk is a, uh, bad fact for the defense against claims that the national security justification was pretextual

Please never associate the great state of New Jersey with the cancer known as Florida ever again.

Yes. But a big part of segregation in New Orleans is relegating black people to environmentally vulnerable neighborhoods with decaying infrastructure.

The handful of historically black neighborhoods that were spared by Katrina have gentrified rapidly (Bywater, Seventh Ward, Treme, etc.)

And because it’s in a poor as fuck low growth red state lthere’s no financial support to improve quality of life in non-touristy neighborhoods to the point they can stabilize and develop.

Everything nice about New Orleans is in spite of government, not because of it.

New Orleans is in a frustrating place where it’s pretty much completely reliant on tourism economically (of which its historic urban fabric is a big driver) but tourism has also bid up many of the neighborhoods that are safe and have high quality of life to the point they are unaffordable to locals.

The league has absolutely stagnated over the past decade.

Did AIPAC pay for this?

The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them.

You fucking losers.

I don’t think it had to do with comfortable commuter trains but with the rise of Midtown. When Penn Station opened Manhattan’s CBD was still the Financial District.

I’d never call MP54s comfortable lol.

Jeez. Absolutely insane how impoverished short distance service was in the west.

The PRR did a great job with the 30th Street/Suburban Station megaproject. It’s a shame they weren’t similarly forward-thinking in NY or DC.

At least the LIRR-side of Penn Station works well with its double-wide platforms and direct lead to/from West Side Yard.

The station still functions essentially the same way as it always has and its passenger circulation is notably uncongested compared to its similarly busy NEC peers in DC and Boston.

It did have extensive short distance intercity operations to San Diego though, right?

Interestingly one of the most notable exceptions is 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, which stands out as ahead of its time - designed for through trains from the beginning and segregates suburban and intercity traffic railside while facilitating suburban-intercity transfers passenger-side.

Since railroads in the US treated passenger traffic as a loss leader, the stations of the 20s and 30s were often designed first and foremost for the all-Pullman long-distance flagship trains, which included long dwells on stub tracks for handling bagged and the like and made few intermediate stops.

NYC isn’t nearly as finance-dependent as it was 30 years ago. It’s a hub for high-productivity white collar work in general - white shoe law firms, REITs, some tech (but not too much), consulting, etc.

And then it also has more media and arts/entertainment jobs than LA these days.

Is it still looked well upon if that first gen university grad is using their degree as a banker in The City or a solicitor on behalf of large private corporations?

Because the professional-managerial class is the backbone of the current Democratic Party coalition in the US.

Let’s see a season of Traitors with messy disgraced American politicians: Rod Blagojevich, Bob Menendez and his wife, Kristen Sinema, Eric Adams, George Santos, Nancy Mace, etc.

The celeb gimmick unfortunately is how they get Bravo fans to tune into a game show. At a certain point it might alienate the reality game show fans though.

The celeb aspect means they also can’t make the contestants more uncomfortable. The best reality tv happens under poor living conditions.

I could see a realignment where the bulk of Tories + blue Labour goes Reform, red Tories go Lib Dem, and the bulk of Labour goes Green. Unfortunately Reform is probably the big winner in that scenario.

Of course Thatcher didn’t give a rats ass about the environment - she just cared about getting the money-losing nationalized coal industry off of the government’s balance books.

It blows my American mind that British transition away from coal was a Thatcherite idea from the right.

80s Labour was loyal to a fault to the social and economic role the mines played while across the pond Democrats were leading the charge in the movement to improve air quality in urban areas.

It blows my American mind that British transition away from coal was a Thatcherite idea from the right.

80s Labour was loyal to a fault to the social and economic role the mines played while across the pond Democrats were leading the charge in the movement to improve air quality in urban areas.