The width of this two way street, which has functioned perfectly well since 1908, is now considered too narrow to act as ~solely~ a one way fire lane for access to even a single building by today’s NFPA code. “For safety”
In reality this illegal street design is safer for everyone involved and means fewer accidents for fire department to respond to, and less severe injuries when they do.
To build this neighborhood today you would be told to remove the trees as an “obstacle”, replacing that space with more asphalt instead. More people would be injured or killed, but in the much rarer case of a fire the convenience of added working space is considered more important.
San Francisco, a city of 412,000 housing units, has completed 377 of them so far this year---but a leading candidate for Congress, Connie Chan, thinks that is too many
What's the most dangerous job in America?
You might think it's being in the army, or a police officer, or a construction worker
But one job has double the amount of people getting disability checks. 75% of LIRR employees are receiving disability checks from the NY Gov.
oh my god, this is unbelievable: the striking LIRR worker complaining that Hochul “has money for everything except our salaries” LITERALLY MADE MORE MONEY THAN HOCHUL DID LAST YEAR
Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.
being a California politician means opposing safer, more convenient, and more economical options for everything because if you show a hint of enthusiasm for anything exciting all your friendly neighborhood rent-seekers will revolt
You can do a whole lot with buses. This is Dublin, mid-day, on a holiday, at one end of one of their bus spines. And Euro buses are really just night-and-day better than American buses too.
Imagine being a well-off lobbyist and thinking “yes I would like to use my time here on earth to nudge up the probability that pigs live entirely in small cages so that pork can be very slightly more profitable”
I guess maybe they don’t see it in those terms?
King Charles: I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the East Wing. I'm sorry to say that we British of course made our own small attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814.