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Unrealized plans for Columbus’ now-gone Christopher Inn

@talcotts.bsky.social saw this, thought of you.

Not an understatement to say how transformational and solid of a bill this is. All the best parts of the robust reform package the Senate passed in the spring, with none of the negative baggage of the new funding sources since we’re moving existing fuel taxes from highways to transit operations

The concept of a Cheesecake Factory with valet parking is going to stick with me for a while.

I’m only barely joking. Remember how much the Dude’s bungalow sold for.

*points at a random bungalow with about the same square footage as our hotel room* That’s a million dollar house, right there!

A view of Los Angeles from a plane. It’s mostly low-rise and single-family, excepting a few thatches of towers Downtown, along Wilshire, in Hollywood, and so forth.

Needs to look more like Shanghai.

First time in California in nine years and the first thing I see upon leaving the airport is an In-n-Out across from a Ralph‘s.

First time in Los Angeles in a non-changing-planes capacity. We’ll be there until the end of next week.

Turns out the only genre more irritating than stomp clap hey indie rock is stomp clap hey country.

MDW ✈️ LAX

IND ✈️ MDW

Sjælland is up.

What a waste. $200 m on a 2.2-mi line that plods along at 8 mph, doesn't have a direct Metro connection, gets stuck behind cars with which it shares lanes, & arrives less frequently than the (faster) bus along the same route.

The city couldn't bother to make it effective, so now it's being killed.

Graham Platner is a “left” Democrat who is clearly a crypto-bigot who should be nowhere near power.

Gavin Newsom is a “center” Democrat who is clearly a crypto-bigot who should be nowhere near power.

It’s not about left and center. It’s about having the self-respect to reject people like this.

If you see this, post four female characters you love.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

A similar boycott until the NYT shapes up wrt trans stuff would be good too.

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I was about to sarcastically suggest reopening the Sacramento Northern cuz it ran through that general area but on looking at the plan again the interurban only skirted the city’s western edge, so the joke doesn’t even work…

Three days in the city and the only acknowledgment we saw that Mr Graham was from there was the OVO Raptors training facility. Never heard him on the radio or anything.

A tangential anecdatum: when we were in Toronto in February we went into a supermarket, and they had a bunch of Super Bowl cakes in the bakery, one of which read “I don’t care who wins, I’m just here for the halftime show.“

Perfectly normal most years but when it’s Toronto and Kendrick is playing…

🗞️🚊🇩🇰 Depuis ce matin, une première depuis 1972, Copenhague possède une ligne de tram, rapide, le Hovedstadens Letbane. Il a été inauguré entre Ishøj Station et Rødovre Nord. Le tronçon jusque Lundtofte Station est attendu pour l'été 2026, soit un total de 29 stations pour 27 kilomètres.

I wonder what the Venn diagram is of people making excuses for Platner’s tattoo and people who complain about “purity testing” when someone points out Gavin Newsom is a TERF who flirts with the alt-right.

a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower more like no thoughts to declare

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.

can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

Sahra Wagenknecht would clean up here, I just realized.

Windowless bedrooms are Not Good but merely banning them in the code doesn’t fix the reason they are proliferating in the first place and if more consequential systemic problems aren’t fixed we’ll just end up with more closets, bigger bathrooms, and fewer beds.

Submission – Official Map: Kansas City Streetcar Extension, 2025 Submitted by Jon in KC, who says: This is the new KC Streetcar pylon map, updated to reflect the Main Street Extension that opens this Friday, October 24th. It also shows the Riverfront Extension, which will open sometime early next year. I'm curious to get your thoughts. I have some concerns about the limited amount of contrast between the dark blue station lettering getting lost on the darker backgrounds, Art Museums and UMKC in particular, but maybe I'm overthinking it.

The KC Streetcar's Main Street extension opens today, and there's a new map for the occasion – is it up to the task?

I go back and forth on whether the Green Line all the way out to Noblesville would have been a good idea but my god does Mass Ave at least need *something.*

Pretty incredible that the people making excuses right now are (a) the soulless centrist types like Yglesias presently also salivating about e.g. throwing trans people under the bus, and (b) brainwormed red-brown types like Ryan Grim.

Where d’you think it should go?