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Interesting how the Olympics and Expo seem to have accelerated timelines for transit line decision/implementation/construction (though there was a lot of groundwork before those to set up the right conditions). Do other cities get transit built via big events?

‘Outdated’: Newark Airport to build new $3.5B AirTrain NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — It’s how you get to where you’re going before you get to where you’re going. Newark Liberty’s AirTrain began rolling during the Clinton administration. Some 30 years later, it’s...

Just saw a random story about how an airport train will cost more than CAD$1.2B/km
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I heard everyone is luckily physically ok.

I keep waiting for Marie Kondo to do an entire season on Netflix on tab management.

SUVs flip more easily :( looks like the flipped car was turning left (into a bikeway with extra curbs) and the other SUV crashed into them.

@visionzerovancouver.ca from a friend: large SUVs colliding on the midtown bikeway

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Seems like he had plenty of advanced notice from Der Spiegel? Thank you for following up and finishing the job.

Great opportunity to electrify Canada Post. #cdnpoli #canpoli

Amazing.

AEO 2025 is out!

AEO 2025 is out!

Here's the first thing I pulled out of it!

The chaos is in the Wonder (0-5 toddler) section. (Mostly kidding)

Slide by @toderianUW.bsky.social saying “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.“ – Lewis Mumford, 1955

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

You know what AI is decent at? Pattern recognition. So, it would be good at funding the same things that have been always been funded. That's not how we get the next cutting edge discoveries. That's not a meritocracy, that's legacy admissions.

Charts show activity of cars/LDVs Parked 94.1% of the time on weekdays, 95.4% on weekends

Charts show the activity of local, regional and long-haul trucks by time of day, largely parked (on average 56% of the time on weekdays for long-haul trucks, with a minimum of 40%. 90% of time for local trucks on weekends).

The reason why EVs are such a great opportunity for a renewables-based power system (or any power system, for that matter), and why we need universal charging while parked: cars, and even heavy-duty vehicles: parked most of the time > demand flexibility through smart charging!

That's up to 10,000 minutes per year, excluding any evening or weekend trips. 170 hours — a full week. Multiplied by hundreds of thousands or millions of people.

A month into congestion pricing and my bus commute into NYC is consistently 15-20 min faster each way, no matter what time of day I travel. It has given me 40 minutes of my life back. I work in midtown and crossing the street is no longer gridlock.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi, @peard33.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

The thing about running the federal government like a software startup is that most software startups fail www.wired.com/story/the-us...

and what about the role of travel distances/quantity ?

Comparison of per-capita road-transport emissions in selected countries.
▸Norway has made great strides in turning its passenger-car fleet over to battery-electric, with >90% of new cars BEV, and share of the car fleet passing 27%.
But doesn't have the lowest road-transport emissions per capita. 1/2

Well, unfortunately, now politics has come for science

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

NSF to lay off nearly half of its staff in the next two months. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

A pretty simple way to exemplify America First.
Maybe even a grudge with Bill Gates?
Test case on how to illegally dismantle a government agency? And test the public reaction?

The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think. The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

‘Oh well’: Musk responds to Ontario’s termination of $100M Starlink contract | Globalnews.ca Doug Ford says the Ontario government is 'ripping up' its $100-million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide high-speed internet to northern and rural communities.

Elon Musk: Oh Well globalnews.ca/news/1099566...