Nothing. Sorry. I was unclear. They’ve extended their ban on new buildings taller than 50’.

Same city that recently extended their 50’ building height limit (despite already having several apartment buildings taller than that).

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

- Gustavo Petro, current president of Colombia, former mayor of Bogota

This is right next to Central Park. He could ride his bike (or his e-bike) through what is widely considered one of the most beautiful urban parks in the world without having to worry about cars or red lights.

The subway is also fine. It’s by no means a public toilet on rails. The platforms are a bit grungy, but inside the cars it’s comparable to London or Paris.

In addition to the subway, there are no less than 4 bus routes along Madison & 5th Avenues.

don’t forget you also have to beg the freight companies to let you run those trains

You can go to Lagos and ride it, if you want!

I think battery buses require extra road maintenance because they’re so heavy. They’d be required to use truck routes or their roads would have to be updated to handle those weights.

Also EV charging infrastructure is not nothing.

In general, trolleybuses are probably the best electrification method, but people get mad about catenary.

It sounds like they’re praising it in Japan and saying “of course it could never work here, Americans are just genetically predisposed to cars”.

Which public transport? Tokyo Metro is publicly-owned. Some of the JR branches are still publicly-owned. JR was only privatized in the late 80s as an anti-labor move and to deflect from the unpopularity of closing unprofitable rural lines. But of course the government built most of the network, including the first shinkansen lines.

very funny to see this coming from Reason, a libertarian rag that hates public transit

Well, the article’s thesis is more that transportation/traffic engineers don’t care. DoTs are set up to get grants and spend money, with a focus on throughput. Very little thought is put into safety, and most “safety” best practices are confusing, outdated, or poorly thought out.

What solution is AI going to come up with other than “stop burning fossil fuels”? We already know the solution to climate change. Acting like we don’t is absurd.

I think a good first step in meeting climate goals would be eating Eric Schmidt.

I meant in other countries. Rural France is still conservative, for example. So is rural Japan.

Plenty of places with developed rail networks are still conservative in rural places.

It’s Idaho, so I can only assume someone with MAGA brainworms will attempt to roll coal through the middle of it in a giant lifted truck.

Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.

When asked if he was sure that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted due to its historical context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m honest, I don’t really know… I hope so. I mean you would think that the responsible person I should be, I would’ve spent the last six months in lawyers’ offices…”

Bold strategy, Cotton.

I had to look it up. It was called Guardian of Atlas and Sean left the company right after the beta launched and then the game got cancelled. My guess as to why it went poorly is just that it was inexperienced devs making a game at a time when SC2 was still actually relatively popular. There was no space in the already tiny genre of RTS.

Now that Blizzard has essentially abandoned StarCraft, it might be possible for some folks to carve some of that tiny market away.

Day9 did consult on the design of an RTS like ten years ago and it didn’t amount to anything.