Research Fellow @joinFAI; opinions mine not theirs | Working to make US transportation faster, cheaper, more reliable, & less safe | prev: Econ & CS @UChicago

Inside the Beltway, USA
Joined January 2022
This feels like an insane thing to put in a document about transit governance during an allegedly conservative administration. Like what are we doing here
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FTA I think they call that an "unweighted average"
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googled opinion polling for the israeli election and i'm gonna be honest I really have not learned anything
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It seems we may need to cut the cables
Just got quoted $2,400 to paint a 23 by 13 foot living room. The 4 gallons of paint it takes to do the job costs about $110 at Home Depot, or around $160 if you want Sherwin Williams. This is not a particularly skilled job. You went to trade school, not medical school. You own a brush and a roller. Stop ripping people off, contractors.
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running an artic at 2:20am with 2% utilization purely for the love of the game (which is maximizing maintenance expenses)
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pov state DOT has a lack of Amfleet Is
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I find it extremely funny that the leading opponent of funding BART complained two hours ago that BART was having problems because it was raining and then turns around and complains about the funding which is allocated to fixing the rain problem.
Debora Allen
@debora_allen1Oct 22
Oct 1, 2019: New @SFBART GM Powers out pushing a $100B tax measure for 2020 (incl. new transbay tube) right after Measure RR’s ~$3.5B gift to BART in 2016. Agency was losing riders and cash. Proof they planned more taxes before COVID. Expect another one in 2028 post-Measure RTM. abc7news.com/post/report-bar…
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"report coming soon" but like fr this time
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Is there like some kind of german word for when two people disagreeing with each other repeat the exact same set of words in service of their respective sides
What if we just abolished the field of law entirely and became Chinese or something idk how do we allow these people to have any modicum of influence over real life affairs
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