It's also the strategy error: very mad she wasted a slam-dunk tax like this on the basketcase of SDP

The mayor might actually be cooked here, and her poor comms strategy is mostly to blame

To be fair RTM was not known for cheesesteaks until very recently! (Campo's used to have a stand there?)

A subtle reminder of how this worked out last time: “Mr. Trump said he’d wanted to own the shuttle for years because he likes the idea of owning it. It was not a financial decision as far as I can tell” www.aerotime.aero/articles/260...

Many people don't even understand the concept of rent-seeking or secretly like doing it themselves. (But we must try!)

Because the SDP needs the City's permission to do that and the City does not want to think about these hard choices (rideshare tax already hard enough)

ever wonder why your bus is waiting for a green light? excited to share a big work project milestone (and kudos to the team who delivered this) - the first ever California Open Transit Signal Priority Metrics, a key rulebook on how to evaluate the operational performance dot.ca.gov/cal-itp/tsp-...

It always ends up being about appealing to preservation doesn't it? (The preservation regs here can keep home values down but it's through disrepair, which is hardly fair and fails to work under extreme demand)

Sorry I should have said design-build, but even if that breakdown was given it could theoretically all be censored because of the "trade secrets" exemption

I guess "Base Contract" cost breakdown is not subject to FOIA because of the P3 structure?

I think there's a pretty clear correlation between general project features ("one-stop end of line extension") and the accompanying scope to deliver it; streetscapes will bundle multiple purposes together but they can also be disentangled

FOIA requests for the cost schedules to begin with

Streetscape civils are a lot simpler than transit though and there are cost history databases that exist to compare to. It's just that fewer people have been interested in studying and comparing projects

In my experience the maintenance reason predominates over the aesthetics one, which is compounded when the trolleybus substations aren't the same as rail substations (lack thereof or otherwise)

(this is because roadway engineering is really groundwater engineering in disguise and because of impervious surface our roads become mini-drainage canals)

Berkeley traffic diverter

Berkeley traffic diverter

Berkeley traffic diverter

Berkeley traffic diverter

The Berkeley traffic diverter:

As peasants in the Dark Ages looked upon the Roman aqueducts arching above, today's engineers can only gaze in wonderment at the awesome works of their forebears.

This mysterious technology, once thrown up with ease and abandon, is wholly lost to modernity.

this article convinced me that the tax should be $10

More to come; but the 15th Street Bike Lanes will stay for now!! Here's the conclusion of the 61 page decision ... THANK YOU for your support! Wanted you to hear it from us first ... CONCLUSION The Court finds the decision to proceed with the 15th Street Cycle Track Removal to be arbitrary and capricious because the record does not reflect that the defendants examined the relevant data and articulated a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made. It further finds that the defendants’ invocation of the highway modernization categorical exclusion, and their conclusion that the Removal Project would not have a significant impact on public health and safety, to be arbitrary and capricious as well. Therefore, the decision to proceed with the Removal Project as described in the March 31, 2026 NPS Decision Memorandum and the March 31, 2026 NPS and FHWA Categorial Exclusion documents, as well as in the February 23 NPS and February 27 FHWA Categorical Exclusion documents to the extent they were not rescinded or nullified but only elaborated upon on March 31, is hereby VACATED and REMANDED to the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration. This means, as counsel for the defendants acknowledged on the record at the hearing, that the decision is null and void, and the Removal Project may not and will not proceed on April 23, 2026. Given the ruling in plaintiff’s favor on the merits, plaintiff’s request for interim relief is denied as MOOT.

WABA WON

New faregates are great, but the decade-long saga it took for several agencies to stumble towards the right design while e.g. PATCO had paddle gates since 2007 is downright shameful and a waste of millions to venders

Minneapolis Skyway is also a good one, a surprising amount of higher-story shops

Surely she has never had to think about costs and pay-fors before working for a nonprofit!

This comparison makes so much sense lmao

Spandrels are so back

Yeah it needed to go to 5 segments because of the tunnel clearance envelope at curves, the SEPTA model is very customized

Yes, there is no other 3+ segment LRV I know of with only 2 bogies

Adding two more 90-degree curves in regular service is a maintenance increase, plus that block of 42nd are constantly blocked by cars/trucks (personal experience)

80 ft is the maximum length one can platform a trolley at 40th St Portal, because it will have to be reconfigured to eliminate the T2 inbound curve

I guess it's in walking distance to the station, but if they're saving the closest parcels for a garage I'm gonna be so triggered

Sacramento’s most legendary parking enforcement officer gave out 22,000 tickets last year 2025 marked another outstanding year for Parking Enforcement Officer Grant Nakamura, the hardest-working man in Sacramento.

“No infraction seems to escape him. Nakamura can hear a meter expire in the night the way an owl hears a mouse across a snowy clearing in the woods…”