Roboticools 2000

[Jonah Maps @JonahA59]

The ongoing work on 95 from Cottman to Vine cost as much as SEPTA's entire proposed 2027 budget including the $920M in capital projects. Plus $127M to fix just this small stretch of road below it? I use this stretch often but I'd rather that money go to SEPTA!

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

Proposing cutting down century + trees because a fossil fuel factory drained all your drinking water…. Evil stuff from Greg Abbot’s cronies on the river authority

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Nueces River Authority suggests cutting trees to save water

Nueces River supplies Corpus Christi

“Among the biggest water consumers along the river is the Bald Cypress”

“Not everyone is ready to support large-scale tree removal near the river”

https://t.co/tuQa2nf7D5

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@rschoneman @Api91Test Ya they own the elevated part near callowhill/spring garden but luckily septa’s already got most of the right of way west broad

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@rschoneman @Api91Test Septa owns the whole city branch!
30th and Pennsylvania to broad. A few properties have easements but nothing insurmountable. Although past 20th or so the alignment switches from being radial/into center city to more circumferential which is less useful. https://t.co/HI0H5kLYAS

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@Api91Test Ooh ya the city branch especially the tunnel does not make much sense for a park. Septa owning a tunnel that goes to the museum area and some dense neighborhoods without having the funding for transit in it is so infuriating.

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

Looks like Mr softee finally got the interlopers

[Dan El Captain @Mrstanleycup]

Penn Treaty Park on Friday afternoon, May 29th.

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@senortalone @Awildschild Clear viewsheds for tv camera scaffolds in case the course ever lands a professional tour event in 10-20 years. Really classy work!

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@senortalone @Awildschild Cobbs creek golf course renovation! They clear cut a ton of forest and now are “restoring” the stream. It’s a whole scuzzy endeavor where the city rented out the golf course to a foundation for a dollar a year and they’re cutting down so many trees to, amongst other things, (1/2)

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @CompletedStreet]

The Rochester, NY highway removal was able to reclaim 6.5 acres of land, leading to $229 million in development and millions in new tax revenue for the city.

We need more urban highway removals.

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@TXTylerNorris

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@data_atx @_AustinCurrent create new stormwater treatment facilities where none exist in the urban core is a big cost driver with no public transit benefit. It is good to treat stormwater, but should a first of its kind and currently controversial project bear that cost?

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@data_atx @_AustinCurrent I feel like one thing under-reported on the high per-mile cost is that Austin is getting complete streets style reconstruction including stormwater treatment of many of these narrow roads. By requiring Project Connect to (for example, not exclusive) (1/2)

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

"If a border wall—or other destructive border infrastructure—is built inside Big Bend National Park, it would be the most egregious assault on the integrity of the entire National Park System since the construction of a dam in the Hetchy Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park more than a century ago."

This is a grave warning from seven high-level NPS superintendents, folks who rarely break ranks and wade into advocacy. I'm proud to see my former superintendent Cindy Ott-Jones among the co-authors.

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@mr_saltz I wonder if they made the same arguments when Cherelle Parker won the mayoral election….

[Jon Geeting @jongeeting]

There are 91 PA energy generation projects that have PJM interconnection agreements, but no state or local permits yet. 78 of these are solar or wind projects subject to OBBBA's federal tax credit cliff this summer. That's about 1,415 MW of already-approved capacity at risk

[Roboticools 2000 @Roboticools2000]

@pat_in_thehat How about spirit of the schuylkill?

[The Goddamned Penguin @who_shot_jgr]

mbta is leading the way, tearing down obsolete trolleybus wires for the technology of the future: battery bus with diesel heater