Are they prohibited from running to Oakland? Never understood the Silicon Valley-only focus

Don’t shed a tear for the octopus, but some believe the under regulated market of the time required CP/SP to monopolize because well-capitalized competitors threatened their ledger. The Robber Barons always did fine, but the railroad itself had to constantly grow or it wld lose to upstarts

Here, I turned up the sharpness

But is it?

All trains to and from SF should hit central Oakland. Then they can split to go north and south. The existing north/south service should also serve central Oakland. (Lucile Bluth meme about not understanding costs)

In the East Bay, even the trains are reds

Is there an option to ask them to stop expanding highways?

Chow in SF had a seasonal dessert with ginger cake, pumpkin ice cream, and caramel sauce. It was so popular they had to talk the ice cream supplier into making pumpkin year-round

Nice project. Mostly conventionally modern with just hints of the self-conscious explorations to come. Subtle nods to LA Architect Ray Kappe

Gerhy’s mid career work investigating and elevating the quotidian construction practices of the day were a revelation and were some of the first examples of contemporary architecture I noticed while growing up in Los Angeles

I spend a lot of time trying to ween my students from left NIMBYism, but it is challenging. I gotta say, when I was a student in the 80s, the prevailing sense was that any building would create more problems than it would solve

When was transport ever “just” transport? That seems to show a lot of contempt and ignorance for the billions spent on rail infrastructure

I'm sold on the benefits, but your diagrams illustrate the need to pair single stair reform with open space requirements and the elimination of parking minimums. I am a bit concerned about what Americans would do with point access alone

This one is more specific

I want these events to be about that future, but outside of a few booths (Streets For All, etc) most of the people and orgs represented do not. LADoT had two booths staffed by community outreach consultants who didn’t know what HLA was. Most of the politicians represented don’t get it

Do you want snowpiercer? Because this is how you get snowpiercer.

CAHSR, but at what cost?