karvellas.bsky.social
cities and buildings, science and history
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eh i'm not totally sold on this. the old immigration flows to NYC also collapsed post WWII but were replaced by other countries of origin. European immigration on either side of the iron curtain collapsed (Greece was sort of an exception but was never a huge sender)
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you can buy used brooks brothers on ebay for almost nothing and get like 80% there
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oh sorry if that came off as brusque, was earnestly curious about why that would matter for this level of service
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why would this matter? can they not just use the two western tracks?
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i vaguely remember reading about internal opposition back in 2017, maybe from conductor crews? maybe that won out eventually?
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@starlinechicago.bsky.social do you understand why they abandoned the even takt post covid?
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why is there such institutional entropy towards crummy spacing? metra electric also has alternating 30 min and 90 min spacing on the trunk on sundays
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i find it kinda funny how some northern italian regions are so dominant in certain niche industrial segments. two shipyards in veneto and friulia are build like a third of cruise ships.
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non trivial number of south asians in parts of it these days (who vote for him with saddam numbers presumably)
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i think someone pointed out that amtrak is legally empowered to install them on illinois service trains because they have IL liquor licenses
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one point of comparison is Chicago had around 600k people turn out to its non partisan, April 2023 mayoral final round election out of 2.75m residents, vs 900k in the 2021 NYC democratic primary, out of 8.8m residents
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yeah stephen see ben's other comment, they tried OPTO with city transit employees on a single line, sidestepping the mainline RR employee CBAs
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didn't david gunn try to use labor shenanigans to run opto and push up frequencies on septa rr in the 1980s too or am i hallucinating that
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besides NYW&B, SIRT, H&M, and the IC Electric, did any other US mainline RRs every try to run rapid transit like service?
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Maybe Kagame and his people will study Singapore closely enough to figure this out
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The evil answer is the elite could figure out that actually you don’t really need to plan cities around cars too much to make elite automobility really convenient, much more effective to do expensive congestion pricing and registration fees to keep cars unaffordable as the country gets richer
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IIRC Nairobi already has enough large apartment buildings that the super auto oriented path is already kinda precluded?
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I really hope at least some of those high altitude East African cities do a good job at urbanism, because the climate is really nice there. If they do it right they could be really really high quality of life cities
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Levine and some of the other candidates only have there last name listed in Chinese (also true for Stringer and Blake). AIUI the candidate approves their translation and can suggest an alternative, so it’s possible they prefer to just be known by the last name in Chinese.
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i've been in a very high end three story building in Chicago with a very similar floorplan. tbh i think the elevator opening directly into the apartment codes as very high end, which may outweigh the functional downsides
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as you both know, the level boarding and emu thing doesnt seem to change metra's behavior
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Kazakhstan turned out ~fine I guess?
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i believe salt lake city light rail has them, activated by button
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i kinda feel like mansion districts were maybe actually kind of easier to really intensively redevelop, since they solve the lot assemblage problem (you can just redevelop a single estate into a high rise)? you see this pattern in the Gold Coast too
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the highliners with the NICTD signage are actually much more attractive than with the metra signs
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LA's expanse and diffuse distribution of destinations make it exceptionally hard to serve the large majority of trips with fast transit unfortunately, even with the significant investments they've made. it's a really tough situation
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? what are you referring to
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travel town museum matches the foliage, track layout, and the shed on the left. also adjacent to major LA studios
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i feel like chicago seasons are approximately:
summer: jun 1 - oct 1
fall: oct 1 - nov 15
winter: nov 15 - april 1
spring: april 1 - jun 1
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noise contour map makes it seem like it's mostly fine to the west of the airport? i don't really know anything about barcelona though so i'm happy to be wrong about all of this
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this is true, but so is el prat de llobregat, which is built out quite densely it seems
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yeah i mean this is not really relevant to the overall conversation. in basically all places with housing crises, the solution has to involve places outside the municipal boundaries of the core city. these places have rail transit service to barcelona which is what matters
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yeah the fact that its a sharp line across a road makes me suspicious
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maybe! i don't really know!
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yeah road bottlenecks, really just what is great for hard tech r&d + manufacturing
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i don't actually think the second part is really true? but AFAICT it's legally protected bsky.app/profile/karv...
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yeah i don't think this is actually that uncommon in older units here. 1bd apartments with separate living and dining rooms are not even that uncommon in hyde park
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though i will say in unit retrofits in pre war buildings are not so uncommon
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another tension is modern, amenitized units are very rare near brown line stations north of chicago or sedgewick for zoning reasons. have a friend who has very high budget but almost could not find this product
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but the thing that strikes me right away (from american eyes) about barcelona land use are the huge tracts of fairly centrally located and transit accessible legally protected farmland
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yeah what i've noticed is anglo discourse about barcelona always makes the same few points ("banning airbnbs won't solve the housing crisis," "it's built out very densely," "historic/neighborhood preservation...")...
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we had this huge, years long societal debate about marijuana legalization, with tons public discourse about tradeoffs, harm reduction, and health effects, vs with gambling it seems like elected leaders just went "fuck it we want the tax revenue"
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oh yeah i understand why you did it this way, just was curious about construction by year
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given that there was very little construction during the 30s and early 40s, this suggests that more housing units were constructed 1923-1930 than 1957-2003
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do you have more granular year by year data?
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it's gotten much less bad since the peak of the migrant crisis but the volume of asylum claimants trying to use the chunnel has been so high already, i would be shocked to see them institute a change that would make it trivially easy
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they're never going to do this, they don't want people to be able to use it for asylum claims
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general aviation lol
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woodworking feels like it's in this tier
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Metra is actually really good about responding to FOIA requests