The default size of a fire truck the U.S. is entirely based on the personal preferences of firefighters & their love of big trucks. The rest of the world designed the trucks to meet the city. In the U.S. we designed our cities to meet the expanding trucks. In return we got the following: -no superior outcomes in fire deaths -more road injuries and deaths -less space for people and housing -more expense -less enjoyable cities

Don’t let American railroaders tell you that stack trains can’t run under wire, We can electrify our railroads

I strongly disagree with the TTC’s decision to install barrier fences on subway platforms. I’m convinced it’s a waste of money, and won’t effectively prevent tragedies, trespassing onto the tracks or reduce subway delays. I support working toward installing real platform edge doors. cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/p…

More recently, in the first half of the twentieth century, as much as 20% of the urban population of big US cities lived in units—from cheap SROs to luxury hotels—without kitchens. They ate nearly all of their meals at cheap ¢5 lunch counters and cafeterias, including automats.

This is a perfect example of one of the reasons we have absurd transit costs. We can only compare ourselves to other Canadian and American agencies such as the MTA, who consistently have some of the worlds highest construction cost. Platform doors in Europe are 10x cheaper.

“As soon as we fix the problem we created, we can focus on fixing the other problems that we also created.”

who could have predicted this

As long as you are sober it is completely legal to hit people with your car in America. This is because every single politician in the country can envision themselves or their loved ones accidentally running over a toddler when distracted and wants leniency when it happens

Is there a fucking road in front of your house? Does your house have plumbing that leaves your property? Do you want the fire department to show up if it’s on fire? These fucking idiots man

Counterpoint: it shouldn’t take a major event to get a city clean.

It's our home. This Earth Day, see our planet as our Artemis II astronauts saw it with these new images from the mission.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. Republicans have fought for partisan gerrymanders across the United States of America. And these are the rules that they have set. And so if the Republican Party wanted to start this, they did this in North Carolina. They drew out three Democratic members of Congress in North Carolina. They did it in Texas. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over, doesn’t fight, and takes everything sitting down. And what they’re mad at right now is that we are here in a new day. And we have been asking the Democratic Party to stand up and fight, and now they did—and now the Republican Party doesn’t like the fact that they are fighting against someone who actually will stand up for the American people. So if Republicans decide that they would like to revisit a ban on partisan gerrymandering, I welcome them. We have the bill right here to end this all today. But they don’t want to, because they like pursuing and continuing to enact an unfair electoral landscape. And so we have an obligation to defend ourselves.

Such a mindf*ck. The "reason" is mostly apparently because we are too incompetent and so our apparent thought leaders solution is to give up. I wouldn't want to be stuck somewhere with no food, one imagines op-eds preceding our starvation "Walking is dangerous and risky".

If you want to understand why people are so skeptical of “technological progress”, it’s because in the last 25 years they’ve seen incredible “progress” in digital technology that has largely left us more distracted and angry. Meanwhile, basically everything in the physical and material world has declined. - Smaller homes built worse - Health care system with difficult capacity and access - Mismanaged and crumbling municipal infrastructure - Decline in state capacity to deliver good services or infrastructure at reasonable costs This is a political failure, because those in power who are older and comfortable don’t need progress, opportunity, and rising living standards like the rest of us.

The discourse and op-eds on HSR are so consistently cringe. It's exhausting. WE AREN'T CALIFORNIA!

After 2021, Portland raised the IZ requirement from 10% to 25%, requires developers to set aside 25% of new residential units for affordable housing As a result, affordable housing fell almost 99%

Changes like this, even if they can even be reversed, will consume inordinate amounts of time for the next Dem administration. It's much, much easier to destroy something than to create it.

$650,000/daily rider for the BART extension wtf were they thinking

The Class 1 freight railroads told us that it would be too expensive for them to electrify, so now everyone gets to see how problematic our logistics network is and how its completely tied to oil prices. Great job everyone

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…