They’d better use this for bumper music

Given this, it’s still wild to me OAK got BART to pay for their airport people mover

The thing about the detached engine taking the pylon with it suggests maybe metal fatigue where the pylon meets the wing? If so, that’s bad

I don’t think that’s the logic at all.

The region passed a tax and plan that requires a long-distance line; and that distance requires a fast, direct ROW; cost requires looking for ROWs that already exist (opposed to tunneling to Lynnwood) and the most direct extant ROW is the interstate

Kiss and Ride is not just an American thing, either -- here's the Swedish wayfinding for it.

The bus loop (green) is trying to make bus-rail transfers as easy as possible.

The actual kiss and ride facility there (yellow) is tiny by comparison.

Are we? Most of that is the bus loop.

Yes; I’m just saying, there’s a notable difference between requiring bay windows to break up the mass, vs. allowing them if you want.

The secretary doesn’t really have much discretion about how states spend highway funds Congress has allocated to them, does he?

Oh, to be clear, this doesn’t solve any of the construction challenges.

But as a matter of setting up the rules, it’s not a requirement

There’s a big difference between rigid design requirements and a generalized zoning rule for the building envelope.

DC absolutely has this design in spades, but it’s not a requirement at all; it’s an incentive (that dates back to 1872!) about building projections beyond the property line.

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lol - “But the site is narrow — only 66 feet wide”

Yes, the injuries are bad, and the schedule is absurdly difficult.

But there’s absolutely no positive momentum, no hope, no progress. Everything is moving backwards.

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why don’t the build the whole plane out of the black box?