I read the 1,036-page bill late last night. The House watered down the reforms and almost entirely divorced revenues from anything transportation-related. It’s better than nothing but it’s also disappointing.
Call your reps: what passes tomorrow needs to look more like the Senate’s than this one.
Six people and a baby stand in front of the coach house. Pictured are the owner, mother in law, child, state reps LaPointe and Mah, and Ben and Steven are on the right.
This coach house was built in 2023 by the couple who own the property to have a place for their mother in law to live in and help take care of their newborn child.
The “granny flat” is real.
CTA is maxing out its current lines of credit to get the Red Line Extension done. It's issuing $2.75B in revenue bonds with 35-year terms at an estimated 5.5% interest rate. These are backed by the RLE TIF district and sales tax revenues but between the two, only $1.7B currently has backing.
How did the RLE go from $3.2B to $5.75B in seven months? Significant increases in engineering, project management/development, stations, site work, contingency, and debt service. Increases are so drastic–that they seem like errors, have inflated the cost by 58% and led to $473M in debt service🧵
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(sent to my by a pilot)
When cities flush excess bureaucracy, we can dramatically lower the cost of building public toilets.
When we flush exclusionary zoning, we’ll be able to do the same for housing.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
German vs. American roof. Beyond the obvious difference in durability, also notice that there is scaffolding around the German houses during construction. It costs more, but it’s affordable since the roof is going to last 50-100 years.
A small elevator is better than no elevator.
That's the reason for a smart little housing bill WAleg will take up this session:
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
It says that for buildings in which elevators are not required, an elevator can be smaller than the gigantic ones normally required.
This is one billion dollars cheaper than the Red Line Extension
Hey it’s your boy Mr. Beast, I got $4.1 billion and I’m gonna build 5.5 miles of new elevated/at-grade rail for $5.3 billion, I call it THE $5.75 BILLION CHALLENGE
Please enjoy this animation of peak hour MTA subway service (by u/mtdfan)
Somehow a random gamer hotel in China is better executed than the officially licensed Star Wars hotel / experience was
Just found out “T Pain” is Nigerian slang criticizing their president (Tinobu)
