Sandy Johnston

Yes I was saying we should do a power ranking of all of these names!

Other common neighborhood/town names:
Hyde Park
Highland Park
Riverside
Uptown

Tweet from Mehdi Hasan: “I am not a fan of Tucker Carlson. I disagree a lot with Carlson. But as an interviewer, Carlson actually, brilliantly, asks follow-up questions, and keeps going, in a way that pretty much no US TV interviewer has done with pro-Israel guests since Oct 7. And Huckabee falls apart.”

No, leftists do not in fact have to hand it to fascists who happen to hate Jews more than they hate Palestinians.

Cold chickpeas or warm? How soft do they need to be? Is there a way to get serious silky smoothness without the massive pain of getting the skins off?

I'm not sure I completely agree with Thomas on this but it's a really interesting argument.

OK but the sea lion thing was pretty funny

Beebe, a large brown and black tabby cat with long hair, is asleep in the corner of a light colored sofa, on a nest made out of a blue throw pillow and a purple blanket

Nesting cat nests as the snowflakes start to fly

Ooooh, the new release of Broadway Limited N scale E units is truly dangerous for me. Especially the Rock Island bicentennial unit and the special C&EI run with Pioneer Trains...

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Which side has which opinions on what other electric operators should be charged for using NEC catenary?

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Figure 1: income (in CHF) by migration round

Figure A7: Change in housing consumption per person, disaggregated into those initiated by construction of small units and those by large units.

Yet the findings are consistent with those from other contexts. New homes are occupied by those on relatively high incomes, but initiate moving chains that involve households with progressively lower incomes & homes at lower rents. Households generally move to larger homes.

Locations of new homes built in Switzerland in 2018

Country-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains, by Lukas Hauck and Frederic Kluser

Another new paper on housebuilding and vacancy chains, this time with data on every Swiss resident & housing unit! An interesting context given Switzerland's high immigration, very large rented sector and strong tenancy rent controls... frederickluser.github.io/files/Moving...

PHA took over its first private-sector apartment building. Tenant reviews are mixed. Some residents say that PHA's purchase of a largely occupied market-rate apartment building in Wynnefield has not gone smoothly.

My story on the first market rate apartment building that PHA purchased with hopes of turning it into a mixed income community. The residents I spoke with say the housing authority is doing a better job than the previous landlord, but most still plan to move out: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

L.A.-to-Vegas Brightline West rail completion pushed to 2029 The 218-mile, Brightline West high-speed rail project between Los Angeles and Las Vegas has pushed its completion date from 2028 to late 2029.

It looks like Brightline West will miss their LA28 target and open after the Olympics have long wrapped up - and for nearly double the cost.

To be fair, you can also take the 114, which ~doubles the effective frequency. But it's not a quick or efficient trip.

What if tearing down I-787 could actually <em>improve</em> traffic? The future of I-787 often pops up in conversations about downtown Albany - specifically, the desire that many people apparently have to see the elevated highway torn down. There's a currently a longte...

I have a post about that too! alloveralbany.com/archive/2016...

Searching for a Good Albany-Area Amtrak Station Site Albany has a train station problem. Surprising, maybe, considering the beautiful and (by train station standards) more or less brand new (opened 2002) Albany-Rensselaer station, which typically ran…

Part of why I proposed a much closer station location to that campus years ago! itineranturbanist.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/s...

YouTube video by Mt. Adams Institute Going Out on a Limb: Life on the Family Farms of Lisa Perry & Ricardo Galvez

If you're looking for something sweet to watch to today, I highly recommend this talk with my cousin* Lisa and her husband about being multi-generational family farmers in the Hood River Valley in Oregon. Starts around 26:00.
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*technically my dad's cousin but my age

This is because the grade crossings don't have gatearms, which is because there is apparently local opposition to them

SEPTA says new trolley signal system will boost safety — but add time On Monday, SEPTA will go live with a new signal system on the D1 and D2 trolleys — the old Routes 101 and 102. SEPTA says it will increase safety on those routes… but also add up to 15 minutes to trip...

increasing passenger safety by reducing the chance that anyone rides the damn trolleys

seriously though, +15 minutes on a 30 minute ride?

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Lawns are anti-urban Blair

Overlapping but coalitionally related is another other, small but very loud constituency for urban decline: the bohemian class, or highly educated but downwardly economically mobile types. They benefit from low urban rents no matter how bad the situation is overall!

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Exactly--which allows these people to present themselves as populists, when they're really anything but (admittedly a common situation with populism)
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Among other places!

These people are shortsighted, and wrong, and their ability to express these policy ideas is premised on the ability to displace the costs of their lifestyle preferences onto the public and (poorer) urban dwellers in particular. But there are a lot of them!

V. perceptive line in this:
"Many prefer the smaller, less crowded, slower-paced Providence of today, where you can find a parking space downtown on a weekday in front of one of the old 20th-century office buildings."

A fact of US life that there is a very large pro-urban decline constituency.

Providence almost had a subway system 100 years ago. Why it went nowhere Providence drew up plans as far back as 1913, inspired by the success of Boston's historic subway line. Here's why it never went anywhere.

More than a century ago Providence abandoned plans for a 2-line subway system similar to Boston's Green Line.

The decision haunts city and transit experts to this day.

The story of what happened and why 👇

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WE ARE SO BACK

THREE FLATS BY RIGHT, ON STANDARD CHICAGO LOTS!!!!

The BLET, which is threatening to strike the LIRR, claims credit for shanking Metro-North going to Albany as a jobs protection measure for its members.

Unmentioned, Amtrak's own deep hostility to the proposal and rear guard action to kill it — after agreeing to it: ble-t.org/news/blet-ef...

I think you're talking about bus/LRT, but Chicago (to its detriment) pioneered rapid transit in freeway medians with what are now the Blue and Red Lines.