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“Increase transparency around project costs. “

Meanwhile average construction cost FOI in Canada be lookin like:

True but genuinely why isn’t the Florida system implemented everywhere

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I appreciate the work that you do just saying it gets a fraction of the activism energy and doesn’t really seem to have many political champions

One of the things that makes me question whether I’m doing anything useful is that there seems to be zero constituency for modernizing normal-speed heavy rail in the US or Canada, despite how low the fruit is hanging in some places

It's always remarkable to me how terrified some people are - I've heard it about *New York*, statistically one of the safest municipalities in the country

yeah you quickly line that "crime" actually means visible poverty and the presence of people with higher melanin concentrations

It’s a mean trick to have it without the Tokyo Metro but Id spot the Oedo Line anywhere

Tokyo, but just the Toei part

I’m trying and mostly failing to write about this but there’s a bizarre failure to grapple with the fact that the overwhelming majority of housing is built because someone is paying to live there

In the American commentariat Canada is imagined as a weird place where there's an extra ten Minnesotas that are independent and thus can be a quirky petri dish of "what if the Dems ran everything" and not as a place with its own interests and idiosyncrasies

in a way, it's almost more insulting that Trump threatened to annex us as a way to own the domestic libs and to create headlines rather than as a credible threat. That would require actual interest in Canada qua Canada, which virtually nobody in the States does, and certainly not anyone in the GOP

Or for that matter that it acknowledges that the rest of the world exists in means beyond just TV content or as a backdrop where proxy battles for domestic issues can play out

I can only speak for myself but I imagine other Canadians feel much the same-I don't know if there will be a restoration of trust until the US shows clear indication that it doesn't see its neighbours and partners as extensions of itself, either geopolitically or psychologically

I don't think China counts as "friendly" by any stretch and Xi is at least as much a threat to global peace as the US is but they haven't made any haha-just-kidding-unless statements about killing us and we can predict what their posture towards Canada is likely to be soon

I think the way things are going is that by any legal or political definition the US and Canada are going remain allied and very closely bound but people here have *not* forgotten the insult and are unlikely to for a good while

(and Osaka proper is smaller than NYC. Oops.)

(ok, to concede a point a bit: Istanbul Metro doesn't have conductors but it does spend a ton of money to make people stand around in the form of security theatre)

Here's some cities with more population than New York (city not metro area):
- London
- Istanbul
- Seoul
- Tokyo
- Osaka
-Shanghai

None of these places get tourists, or so I've been told.

I don't know what this is about but I've thought it a lot about game 7 of the world series over the past handful of months

well, sure, which is why we believed it (speaking from the Western scientific context ofc) for millennia until we discovered microbes

Part of it is a bit personal-it’s been a long time since I lived there but I have my roots in MTL and think it’s a special place, and it feels like both anti-Quebec ROC Anglos and CAQ/PQ types want to undermine what makes it special

Like I said the biggest change seems to have been the increase in bilingualism, which strikes me as an unalloyed good

I will say that *federally* I do take QC concerns about bilingualism quite seriously given how much Anglos often in hold it in barely-veiled contempt, if veiled at all.

The story you hear in QC is that allophone immigrants arrive and invariably learn English instead of French but I’m immensely curious of the extent this is a real thing, by what Ive seen this effect is very minor if it exists

This is just the Montreal CMA too, the “drop” is even smaller provincewide!

…and found that all this sound and fury is about an 8% drop in the proportion of native French speakers and 5% decline in monolingual Francophones over the course of 30 years, almost all explained by allophones and rising rates of bilingualism. Have some confidence, you’ve got a powerful culture!

I’ve kind of had a similar thought…I grant more legitimacy to a lot of QC grievances than most anglos but it can get deeply irritating. literally today I was seeing some hair-pulling about the inevitable decline of French in Montreal and Louisianafication. I hear this a lot so I checked the census…

I will say Welsh people are some of the only non-Canadians (non-Quebecers really) who I’ve seen understand that Quebec’s insistence on maintaining French at all costs isn’t just some kind of psyop or a “we demand to be taken seriously“ type deal but actually something very meaningful an sincere

Curious about the dynamics of Welsh nationalism vs Scottish nationalism

I tend to see all of these through the prism of Quebec nationalism, which is unfair to all involved but I think a decent parallel is language politics being a big deal, tho Welsh and French are in v different conditions ofc