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Tommy Adebiyi

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  • “As much attention as we give to the trials of the officers who are charged with killing Freddie Gray, we should give to a decision that implicates 10,000 construction jobs and billions of dollars of infrastructure investment in Baltimore that were eliminated in a single day by a single decision made by a single person.”
    The Third Rail
  • He pointed out that the state legislature had voted on an increase in the gas tax with the understanding that it would be used for a transit project to benefit low-income minorities in Baltimore. Instead, the money was now being entirely redirected to road projects in wealthier, mostly white outlying areas. “It’s almost unprecedented,” he said. “This is a ‘fuck you’ to Baltimore.”
    The Third Rail
  • The fact that we have this very complex architecture and we don't know the exact 31:34 answer to such a big question is pretty damning because if we don't know such a 31:40 simple answer to a big question, what does that say about the little things? I think there's a problem because right now we are two years out from this launch and we don't know the number of rockets.
    A talk bluntly stating that NASA Artemis has an alarming communication issue - Smarter Every Day 293 - YouTube
  • If you lose your job for providing negative feedback, good on you. 47:12 If it needed to be said and nobody said it, that would be the worst thing to live with. 47:18 Make sure you're speaking up. Be bold, be courteous.
    A talk bluntly stating that NASA Artemis has an alarming communication issue - Smarter Every Day 293 - YouTube
  • almost all plate materials are generally made at a thickness of 1.5mm
    Plate Materials & Sizes — Keyboard University
  • Yet it was not to be. The Golden Gate Bridge District deemed it infeasible for BART to travel attached to the bridge’s underside. Planners would instead have needed a new underwater tube, a proposition that was deemed far too expensive, said Mike Healy, author of “BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System.” As a result, BART asked Marin to exit the regional effort, fearing the cost would sink the project’s chance to win voter approval. “The Marin Board of Supervisors did not want to drop out. But BART really leaned on them to drop out,” Healy said.
    BART looking west toward Geary Boulevard in transbay crossing study | Archives | sfexaminer.com
  • that meant they built 18,000 fewer parking spaces, and the amount of money saved from that, which we can assume went into cheaper apartments and lower rent, was $540 million: half a billion dollars saved just by not building quite so many parking spaces.
    Why parking is so hard and how we can make it better - Vox
  • The first is that many jurisdictions in this country have parking requirements for new housing. That places a geometric and financial constraint on the types of things that can be built. And then what gets built contains a lot of parking, and the cost of that parking is folded into the cost of the units, whether they’re being sold or rented.
    Why parking is so hard and how we can make it better - Vox
  • What more recent research proves is that the more parking you provide, the more people will drive, and parking is perhaps the greatest determinant of whether people decide to make a trip in a car or by some other means. So providing more parking does not actually make it easier to park.
    Why parking is so hard and how we can make it better - Vox
  • When you think about its spatial impact, well, cars spend 95 percent of their time parked. Parking literally takes up more room than the roads, and it costs more than the automobiles.
    Why parking is so hard and how we can make it better - Vox
  • On a national level, certainly, there’s far more parking than we need. There are at least four parking spaces for every car, meaning that the parking stock is no more than 25 percent full at any given time.
    Why parking is so hard and how we can make it better - Vox
  • As Raelynn shared with us, the neighborhood is undergoing a $90 million renovation of the MUNI Light Rail L Traval Line, improving access. As well, two cross-town bus lines stop right near the site.
    EXCLUSIVE: Skyscraper Proposed for 2700 Sloat Boulevard in Outer Sunset, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY