Austin can be retarded. This light rail plan is going to cost $7.1 BILLION, give 10 miles of city access, & provide 28k daily rides. Instead, they could use that money to purchase 2,800 Tesla Robotaxis at ~$100 MILLION and serve the same amount of riders to 100% of the city.

Here is a photo of the damaged third rail from the earlier blown insulator. Trains continue to run on the opposite track while crews repair the trackway.

Wow. Second major BART disruption in two days. It's getting to the point at which Green and Red Line service is optional.

They fight everything, the claim it's for the "working class". Even though bad transit service quite literally impacts working and low income people more than anyone. SF "progressives" have really destroyed the city by fighting all progress, it's astonishing.

For the City of Oakland, virtue signaling could be costly.

The 1979 Etan Patz disappearance changed everything. After the little boy was snatched off the street parents were no longer comfortable leaving their children unsupervised. This made parenting more challenging and may even be a cause of declining birthrates.

Marc Joffe Michael Schneider Pittsburgh Pa has the “Martin Luther King East Busway”, an expressway dedicated to buses. On advantage is it transports people quickly to the city center, then the buses can fan out to various destinations. This provides more flexibility than a rail line.

If Ro is elected President in 2028, we will be in serious trouble. The billionaire wealth tax won't come near paying for the rest of this shopping list and we could easily be looking at $5 trillion annual deficits if implemented.

Public pension funds should be managed to get the best possible risk-adjusted returns, full stop. Politicians should stop politicizing the investment process.

Amazing how legacy technologies can become so expensive to use. My org has the tradition of sending out an annual snail mail membership appeal this time of year. Stamps are 78 cents now so that's $1.56 per piece when the return envelope is included. FedEx Office wanted $3.49

Here's what "a robotaxi screwed up so the whole concept is a fail" narrative misses: they're going to continuously improve. It's like being in 1902 and saying that inventors should stop developing airplanes because they haven't worked (yet). youtu.be/gN-ZktmjIfE?si…

Sacramento experienced record cold weather this week. Something to remember the next time we hear about catastrophic global warming.

We supposedly needed California High-Speed Rail because we were running out of airport capacity. Meanwhile boardings at Oakland International are lower than they were in 2015.

We'll probably never know how much US tax money Yermak and other Ukraine officials stole. One reason: Congress rejected Rand Paul's proposal to appoint an Inspector General to oversee the Ukraine aid program.

CalPERS investment in a company that buys Bitcoin has not worked out and will cost taxpayers millions.

Marc Joffe CalPERS: never has it cost so much to earn so little.