Stephen Jacob Smith
Executive director of the Center for Building in North America, stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
- A detailed plan for trains to run from DC to Boston in less than four hours for about 10 percent the cost of Amtrak's current proposal for upgrading the northeast corridor rail. www.slowboring.com/p/at-last-a-...
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- I live in an apartment and have never driven a car a single time in my life, but taking Amtrak to Boston is asking another level of sacrifice (the plane was cheaper or the same price)
- This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
- Turns out that traffic modeling is kind of voodoo, and that predicted increase in traffic in the Bronx that a lot of congestion pricing opponents hung their hats on did not come to pass
- Policy changes often take years to show results. And then there is congestion pricing in New York. Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Apparently before the St. Lawrence Seaway opened when they wanted to get large ships into the Great Lakes they just brought them up the Mississippi and shoved them through the Chicago River
- I still do this
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View full threadYes, agreed on this floor plan. I was just speaking generally
- There is no guest bathroom
