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It's interesting that people think congestion pricing only works if you have New York density and transit -- folk wisdom.
Congestion pricing can work anywhere you use it. Most car trips in the USA are under 3 miles. Congestion pricing removes both implied and explicit subsidies to drive everywhere.
Congestion pricing can work anywhere you use it. Most car trips in the USA are under 3 miles. Congestion pricing removes both implied and explicit subsidies to drive everywhere.
I’m not sure there are national implications? I can count on one hand (SF, Boston, DC, Chicago) the number of cities in America that have transit networks robust enough that congestion pricing is a viable policy. America isn’t really setup for it.
The most under-reported story of the year, IMO, is about the national implications of the extreme and wildly popular success of congestion pricing in New York City.
When you remove cars from cities, you not only make money for things the city needs; you make people in the city much, much happier.
When you remove cars from cities, you not only make money for things the city needs; you make people in the city much, much happier.
December 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's interesting that people think congestion pricing only works if you have New York density and transit -- folk wisdom.
Congestion pricing can work anywhere you use it. Most car trips in the USA are under 3 miles. Congestion pricing removes both implied and explicit subsidies to drive everywhere.
Congestion pricing can work anywhere you use it. Most car trips in the USA are under 3 miles. Congestion pricing removes both implied and explicit subsidies to drive everywhere.
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The retrospectively bizzare acrimony over the subsequent Canada Line, fears that it was going to catastrophically undershoot ridership projections and destroy the transit system that dominated regional debates in the Oughts only make any sense in light of the Millennium Line's failures.
January 5, 2026 at 6:34 AM
The retrospectively bizzare acrimony over the subsequent Canada Line, fears that it was going to catastrophically undershoot ridership projections and destroy the transit system that dominated regional debates in the Oughts only make any sense in light of the Millennium Line's failures.
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It'd be much more beneficial to those bus riders to integrate all rail fares within the city at $3. This would cost $50 million/year in 2018 which was before City Ticket cost $30 million of that. So about 50x cheaper than free buses and it'd shave multiple hours of many commutes.
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 AM
It'd be much more beneficial to those bus riders to integrate all rail fares within the city at $3. This would cost $50 million/year in 2018 which was before City Ticket cost $30 million of that. So about 50x cheaper than free buses and it'd shave multiple hours of many commutes.
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So, Brendan, Why is the Millennium Line Bad?
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 AM
So, Brendan, Why is the Millennium Line Bad?
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Threads passes Twitter
January 5, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Threads passes Twitter
SNF remains one of American TVs great unifying cultural products. What an incredible finish
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 AM
SNF remains one of American TVs great unifying cultural products. What an incredible finish
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What (and I can’t stress this enough)
THE FUCK.
THE FUCK.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:27 AM
What (and I can’t stress this enough)
THE FUCK.
THE FUCK.
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Imagine getting swept by the 2025 Detroit Lions.
January 5, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Imagine getting swept by the 2025 Detroit Lions.
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On top of that the STM still goes with the now very outdated design of extra-wide lateral encased escalators rather than the more modern and thinner glass balaustrade used by the REM. Not only in this 1980s stations, but even in newer ones.
January 4, 2026 at 11:04 PM
On top of that the STM still goes with the now very outdated design of extra-wide lateral encased escalators rather than the more modern and thinner glass balaustrade used by the REM. Not only in this 1980s stations, but even in newer ones.
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Love to kick start my 10x cost rail project to the least dense part of town by expanding a parking lot.
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Red Line Extension (RLE) permit: expand an existing car parking lot by 92 spaces. buff.ly/mdGHOL9
January 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Love to kick start my 10x cost rail project to the least dense part of town by expanding a parking lot.
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Lions looking like the division winner and the bears like an NFC south team.
January 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Lions looking like the division winner and the bears like an NFC south team.
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8 years before the Great Depression, the Department of Commerce created a building and housing division within the National Bureau of Standards to solve issues with high labor and material costs, obstructive building codes and zoning regulations. Affordability solutions are right there waiting.
Schumer: "Rubio I just heard in your interview said they're doing what's good for the American people. If they want to do what's good for the American people, it should not be some escapade in Venezuela. It should be focusing on lowering the cost of living that Americans are struggling with."
January 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
8 years before the Great Depression, the Department of Commerce created a building and housing division within the National Bureau of Standards to solve issues with high labor and material costs, obstructive building codes and zoning regulations. Affordability solutions are right there waiting.
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Constantly baffled by the BIM and rendering skills of Brazilian plumbing (Hidrossanitário) engineers.
PROJETO ARQUITETÔNICO E HIDROSSANITÁRIO | REVIT + ENSCAPE #shorts #revit #enscape #engenharia
YouTube video by Erik Cavalcanti | BIM
m.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Constantly baffled by the BIM and rendering skills of Brazilian plumbing (Hidrossanitário) engineers.
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Solid response from 'Joe Bob' here.
Almost all 'mystery drones' are just normal airplanes.
Almost all 'mystery drones' are just normal airplanes.
January 4, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Solid response from 'Joe Bob' here.
Almost all 'mystery drones' are just normal airplanes.
Almost all 'mystery drones' are just normal airplanes.
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Most cities dealt with fire risk centuries ago by banning wood construction, then slowly reintroducing it with mass timber. The US went a different direction – wood almost everywhere but sprinklers required in even small houses and grass and flowers banned within 5 ft. of bldgs in downtown San Diego
San Diego is requiring zone 0 in the new Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones, which include a lot of urban San Diego that is currently being upzoned to 8-20 story buildings. www.kpbs.org/news/public-...
Strict wildfire safety rules will soon apply to much of urban San Diego
New regulations will require homeowners to remove combustible materials, including wood fencing, sheds and landscaping, from a five-foot buffer zone surrounding a home's outer walls.
www.kpbs.org
January 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Most cities dealt with fire risk centuries ago by banning wood construction, then slowly reintroducing it with mass timber. The US went a different direction – wood almost everywhere but sprinklers required in even small houses and grass and flowers banned within 5 ft. of bldgs in downtown San Diego
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Yeah it’s not totally rational but we treat deaths very differently depending on how many occur at once and how they happen. I can’t tell you the number of firefighters who’ve joined calls while driving.
January 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Yeah it’s not totally rational but we treat deaths very differently depending on how many occur at once and how they happen. I can’t tell you the number of firefighters who’ve joined calls while driving.
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It’s looking like most of the story was the foam ceiling insulation
January 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It’s looking like most of the story was the foam ceiling insulation
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“Foot-long flames” – closer to birthday candles than to the “pyrotechnics” usually implicated in mass casualty club fires. There was a chain of failures obviously, but the narrow source of ignition failure was nowhere near as egregious as in other events. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
“Foot-long flames” – closer to birthday candles than to the “pyrotechnics” usually implicated in mass casualty club fires. There was a chain of failures obviously, but the narrow source of ignition failure was nowhere near as egregious as in other events. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Would like to take this moment for us to appreciate the contrast with Biden admin Latin America policy which at least featured attempts to make things more democratic and helped ensure a smooth transition of power in Brazil.
January 4, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Would like to take this moment for us to appreciate the contrast with Biden admin Latin America policy which at least featured attempts to make things more democratic and helped ensure a smooth transition of power in Brazil.
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Beverly Hills is on the precipice of a development boom.
Currently, Beverly Hills has 24 proposed residential or mixed-use projects with a total of 2,250 units.
14 are Builder's remedy projects (orange), but the other 10 are not (green)
12 of them are high-rises
Currently, Beverly Hills has 24 proposed residential or mixed-use projects with a total of 2,250 units.
14 are Builder's remedy projects (orange), but the other 10 are not (green)
12 of them are high-rises
January 4, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Beverly Hills is on the precipice of a development boom.
Currently, Beverly Hills has 24 proposed residential or mixed-use projects with a total of 2,250 units.
14 are Builder's remedy projects (orange), but the other 10 are not (green)
12 of them are high-rises
Currently, Beverly Hills has 24 proposed residential or mixed-use projects with a total of 2,250 units.
14 are Builder's remedy projects (orange), but the other 10 are not (green)
12 of them are high-rises
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So idk if you’ve been living under a rock, but the whole reason the post-pandy Venezuelan emigrant wave has destabilized politics from Chile to the US is that the people leaving (and now cheering Maduro’s demise alongside the rich people who fled years ago) are *not* the upper class
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
So idk if you’ve been living under a rock, but the whole reason the post-pandy Venezuelan emigrant wave has destabilized politics from Chile to the US is that the people leaving (and now cheering Maduro’s demise alongside the rich people who fled years ago) are *not* the upper class
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The entrance staircase makes me feel physically ill in such a good way
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
The entrance staircase makes me feel physically ill in such a good way
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Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
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just because i'm seeing the opposite take floating around, part of the libertarian sales pitch for "prediction markets" is that, unlike bookies or securities markets, insiders will trade on non-public information, leading to faster discovery of the "real" odds of an event occuring.
January 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
just because i'm seeing the opposite take floating around, part of the libertarian sales pitch for "prediction markets" is that, unlike bookies or securities markets, insiders will trade on non-public information, leading to faster discovery of the "real" odds of an event occuring.