South Shore’s population growth in the last decade was driven by black and Latino in migration. Maybe that’s UChicago related but it seems tenuous?

See this definitively analysis of the 2020 census in Chicago.
breadpricefixer.medium.com/chicago-census…

The voters, as they say, are the number one argument against democracy.

Has Mayor Brandon Johnson considered appointing me to the CTA board? I look totally unqualified on paper, so that should meet his requirements, but I ride the bus a lot.

There is also a new tiered (1🚇-5🚋-10🚎🚝%) cap for 'ancillary scope' (previous one was a flat 5% across modes), that is defined as any sub-component not directly linked to the mass transit core scope, such as interventions on nearby RoWs.

As part of the 4th 'call for projects' of the Italian mass transit infra fund, the Ministry has updated the maximum threshold of some components expressed as % of the 'proper infra' (RoW, system and O&M), reducing further the amount of 'ancillary' scope that can be funded.

This is substantially more ambitious than I had been expecting alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI… x.com/RailAlberta/st…

“Ben Dreyfuss hunted a law student” is genuinely so much funnier

Frank Vogel is the poster child of how stupid the tracksuit bullshit looks

Wear a goddamn suit!

Hear me out:

Golden Gate Bridge
>Iconic worldwide symbol of American greatness

Marin County
>Uninhabited except for 2,179 annoying NIMBYs. Proximate to major US city in need of housing.

500 Danish architects
>Newly unemployed and eager to escape bonesaw range

I HAVE A PLAN

'The coastal agency has hired a second lobbyist...'

I don't love it when government bodies spend taxpayer dollars to play politics.

My dim memories of covering this in seminar was that Cortez arrived at a decisive moment for Meso-American geopolitics, everyone tried to use him to advance their own complex agendas, which made it easier for him to carry out his own, more straightforward goals.

LinkedIn brainrot is incredible

Should give the governor more seats and transfer accountability to that office.

Oz, sex in the city, gilded age, mare of easttown, deadwood

The quality of NYC architecture and construction has improved a lot within the last decade or two (within the limits of the codes at least), we should build a lot more of it. This is affordable housing in the Bronx newyorkyimby.com/2024/04/130-ea…

Shot; chaser

Someone once asked me how to build a frequent bus network in a certain city I lived in, and I immediately blurted out 'well, you'd start with burning all the buildings down'.

You’ll never guess what area this is referring to to build single family housing in

When Bayer invented diamorphine (brand name “Heroin”) as a non-addictive cough medicine, some of the usual suspects fomented a moral panic about potential downsides.

Imagine if we’d listened to them and people were still kept up at night coughing sometimes.