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This country has a problem with building new transit lines that don’t get as much ridership as they could. I wrote about one of the reasons why: we tend not to treat those lines as constituent parts of larger networks homesignalblog.wordpress.com…

The Forgotten History of Light Rail

For the last century, the central question of American transit planning has been how best to serve our suburbs. As people moved out of urban cores, bought cars, and began living decentralized lifes…

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Third Avenue Charles L. Goeller 1934
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grand street bridge, maspeth
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we seem to be inching closer to the long-discussed replacement of this bridge, but in the meantime it remains the bridge that time forgot
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elsewhere in maspeth (feat. kosciuszko bridge)
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Attention Map Nerds: Here's an incredibly detailed 1935 map showing the residential age of buildings in NYC.
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csz@cszabla2 May 2024
lost styles of advertising and propaganda: pollutioncore
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“lost the plot” does not even begin to adequately describe the depravity of sending militarized police units after your own students. you have to be trying to make a show of hurting people.
Liam Quigley@_elkue1 May 2024
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Just now, the moment this email was sent out, dozens of SRG officers moved in. Hundreds of police swarming Amsterdam Ave gates of Columbia
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the wild thing to me (setting aside the completely absurd thing above) is that all the university administrators involved in this are still going to lose their jobs because of pressure from the right. none of this will be enough. universities are heading for such a dark place
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genuinely what is the point of a university if anytime donors or trustees or congressional randos tell the administration to jump, the university responds with “how high?” and then jumps higher, only to be told by donors/trustees/politicians/the media that it wasn’t high enough
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does anyone else occasionally think about the cover of the 1968 port authority of allegheny county annual report. it’s effectively just a bus map. but depicted as a wheel! (if you didn’t know, pittsburgh buses are numbered counterclockwise radiating from downtown)
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this is my roman empire or whatever
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favorite buildings & signs on bergenline avenue, which is without a doubt one of the best streets our metropolitan area has ever built.
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this was once one of the many railroad gateways to the hudson waterfront, carrying trains to & from a sprawling intermodal terminal in weehawken, where pax & freight crossed the river by boat. nearly 50 years after that terminal closed, the tunnel was converted for light rail.
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(that of course made it new jersey’s *second* light rail subway—the other, below, in newark is the first. it has been a subway for much longer and has its own fascinating history).
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thank you to the IND for including enough exits all of their subway stations to give this bit mileage every year
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Hello! This week is my last week working as Director of Policy at the Chicago Department of Housing. It's been four and a half years, and I'm incredibly proud of my work here. I'm so grateful to my colleagues for everything that their work has made possible. A few highlights:
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