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jackharman.bsky.social
Infrastructure finance professional wondering why Anglosphere costs are so high
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All the enthusiasm of a sulking teenager.

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

I saw so many construction sites today in Gowanus, but not a single crane in the sky. It’s crazy how NYC tolerates the safety risk, costs, and slowness of building without cranes for the benefit of a crane operators’ union with only 1,700 members: www.city-journal.org/article/deco...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Got to be honest, guys, we need to learn how to do a parade

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"What do we want?" "Multiparty parliamentary democracy!" "When do we want it?" "As soon as humanly possible."

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Yes, Happy Flag Day - just not sure which flag, or which nation, right?

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

Twins screaming at each other upstairs. Go and see what's going on. They're doing revision and bitterly disputing the details of the Yalta conference. Can't say I'm not proud.

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

If anyone is interested in track maintenance, the PWI just posted 8 videos from Network Rail's Track Engineering Conference 2025 www.youtube.com/@thepwi737/v...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"Designated left-puncher" was in fact a job on the commune, and it was held by Joseph Stalin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Op...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

submitted 1 day ago • 577 comments

BREAKING NEWS: A stretch of the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue that was installed last year to calm a notoriously dangerous Brooklyn corridor will be removed by the Adams administration, making the roadway less safe. buff.ly/VZQNs60

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

MI6 smugly explaining to Cobr how this can't happen here because you'd never get planning permission.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Great stuff here.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Good news for DB - a phrase not often uttered these days www.ft.com/content/6f71...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Hell yeah

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 547 comments

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...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment