i get that there was no room for the yard downtown. but the downtown section won't be finished for another five years, and there's no telling when they'll reach waikiki. you know, the single largest attraction for visitors in a city that relies heavily on them, and one with tons of jobs.
sixteen candles, in high school: lol, fun teen comedy
sixteen candles, today: holy shit, this movie is racist, and inexcusably so. they were okay having a korean character named "long duck dong"??
transit should go where the people and jobs are. it was a huge mistake to build the suburban sections of skyline before the city center/beachfront sections. there's just no demand.
skyline averaged ~4-5k riders/weekday before the extension, 50% below projections. with the kahauiki (middle street) extension, they're getting 11-12k riders/weekday, which is way below the projected 25k riders a day.
hawaii screwed it up by not building the downtown/waikiki sections first.
hell yeah
Seriously, this isn't rocket science. SF figured this out ages ago.
This is genuinely a good idea. In my own tests with law questions, Claude, ChatGPT, etc., are way too vulnerable to hallucinations, and their bias toward giving definitive-sounding answers does more harm than good.
The same is true for protected bike lanes if you design them correctly.
Definitely true. There's no truly "regional" layer of government like the Comunidad de Madrid.
The Consorcio makes sure all of them play nice.
Madrid's parallel to the Bay is striking, with 15 suburban bus operators (PDF below - most are private but a few are publicly owned), in addition to the Madrid city buses and 5 rail operators (one subway, one commuter rail, three light rail).
As a passenger the experience is seamless, and that's what the Bay needs.
No need to create one super-agency.
To get into Madrid, I'd take the suburban Alcalá Bus (private company) to the Cercanías commuter trains (national rail) to the Metro (State-run), but all on the same ticket, and with seamless transfers.
In Madrid, the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid does this. The national railway runs the commuter trains, the State (comunidad autónoma) of Madrid runs the subway, a variety of operators run the light rail, the city runs the city buses, and the suburban buses are all over the place.
The Bay Area desperately needs an agency that coordinates fares and schedules but doesn't actually run the system.
Madrid has a great model to borrow.
No, didn't know he had one!
Mr. Eliason, who advocates allowing single-stair construction for small multifamily buildings as a solution to the housing crisis, said he learned how common the design was outside the United States while working in Germany in 2019. After seeing an 11-story tower his firm at the time had designed, Mr. Eliason recalled, he turned to his boss and said: "Something is wrong here. Where's your other stair?" "He's looking at me, and said: 'What are you talking about? If there was another stair, there wouldn't be any room for the homes'"
Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)
(this is very much not my period, since my specialty is industrial-era transport history, but it makes for very good reading)
...how the hell did they stay so powerful until things fell apart under the angeloi at the turn of the 13th c.?)
...in the sense that the emperors ruled as first servants of the roman people. (i went down this rabbit hole because of a question that bugged me: if the byzantines were a bunch of degenerate caesaropapists as gibbon et al claim...
on this note, i've been reading an excellent book called "the byzantine republic" which argues that there was basic continuity of the _res publica_ between the old roman republic and the byzantines until 1204 - and that the byzantines (by their own terms) proudly remained a popular government...
Is there a reason why the SF Sheriff's Dept. couldn't just be merged into the SFPD?
Trench Crusade? The wargame for people who didn't think 40k was grim or dark enough?
Seems like the transit equivalent of broken windows policing actually works?
ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social
The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.
Good job, Governor.
I've personally used AI to generate images for my video game projects. But it always requires heavy manual tweaking to make it look right.
AI art IS mostly slop. But sometimes AI can do amazing stuff when the person at the computer knows what he's doing.
For example, this wonderful SimCity-style map of NYC was done through an AI conversion of aerial images, with heavy manual tweaking.
IMO: Faregating the western LIRR terminals would be less aggressive and more user friendly than the ticket nanny now in TrainTime
Ah, the good old "let people double park in front of churches" exception.
