urbanism

The best kinds of buildings are the ones with rooftops where you'd fight a vampire under a waning moon

This is General Electric Tower but it's still kinda cool if you pretend General Electric is some sort of 1920s superhero

This is the Flagey Building in Brussels

How in the FUCK are these allowed on the roads? I saw one go by me with my own two eyes and it was the BIGGEST thing on a regular old road I've ever seen, hands down.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/6168675

RRFBs. HAWK signals. Do any of these devices actually do what they're supposed to do, and how do traffic engineers decide when and where to install them?

• https://piped.video/watch?v=3HCDFczGh84
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HCDFczGh84

As a European, much of this was mind-boggling to me. While I believe all of this is real, I still found myself wondering throughout the video: Is this actually the norm in the US, or are these some cherry-picked bad examples? It felt for me like a whole other level of systemic hostility.

1. Acela's faster trains

2. Brightline West

3. California High Speed Rail

4. Texas

5. Cascadia

Secret #6. Ohio 3 C's, shadowdropping later this year

stolen from r/trains

https://www.businessinsider.com/flannery-silicon-valley-billionaires-build-new-california-city-solano-county-2023-8

Nitter

Can’t wait for it to also not have any housing!