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Infrastructure finance professional wondering why Anglosphere costs are so high
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Good news for DB - a phrase not often uttered these days www.ft.com/content/6f71...

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Contrast this thread to East Side Access, which cost 50% as much and delivered maybe 2% of the benefits as the Elizabeth Line?

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I was in negotiations with a contractor this week who tried to use a ChatGPT answer to increase his bid cost (from an interpretation of NY labor law). Advice: don't do that, you will look like a moron.

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Hell yeah

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If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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It's way too expensive (unsurprisingly), but the Transpennine Route Upgrade is very exciting. Average speeds from Manchester to Leeds will go from 46mph (75kmh) to 62mph (100kph), and delays are estimated to fall by half. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpX...

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Well, here we go www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

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Tempest Rising is the best RTS in years. The Command & Conquer sequel that never came

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The conversation about reform of bus services in England would benefit from maps that reveal the inefficiencies of the current service. So we drew one. humantransit.org/2025/06/bus-...

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The US is an American country

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I’ve written an article for @worksinprogress.bsky.social about through running. It’s the most cost-effective way of upgrading railway lines in nearly all British cities. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ma...

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!!!! "In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to the (MS-13) gang..."

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Hitting a new low by the minute

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Look whose book I bought, unwittingly…

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I really like little projects like the Val'Tram, a suburban extension of the tiny tramway of Aubagne that will be single-track and reuse an old railway alignment. It comes at under €10 million/km. I doubt we can do a bike lane here for that price nowadays. youtu.be/I9SmBvH7r6E?...

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This is the first time I can remember that the tone of my quote has matched my beaming/smug photo

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I know it's usually the Soviet contribution that gets overlooked, but nice to see Britain getting some of that treatment with "the West has fully backed [Hitler] to the hilt"

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CNN homepage right now Some of those stories: www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/p... www.cnn.com/us/live-news... www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/p... www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/p... www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/b...

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Last comment: The fact that Jonathan English who has now written up *two* coherent regional rail plans (arguably two more than Metrolinx) and released them to the public isn't running Metrolinx is crazy. I think that neither feature "GO" branding is interesting. urbantoronto.ca/news/2012/07...

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Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention. Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.

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