This country has a problem with building new transit lines that don’t get as much ridership as they could. I wrote about one of the reasons why: we tend not to treat those lines as constituent parts of larger networks
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“lost the plot” does not even begin to adequately describe the depravity of sending militarized police units after your own students. you have to be trying to make a show of hurting people.
genuinely what is the point of a university if anytime donors or trustees or congressional randos tell the administration to jump, the university responds with “how high?” and then jumps higher, only to be told by donors/trustees/politicians/the media that it wasn’t high enough
the wild thing to me (setting aside the completely absurd thing above) is that all the university administrators involved in this are still going to lose their jobs because of pressure from the right. none of this will be enough. universities are heading for such a dark place
does anyone else occasionally think about the cover of the 1968 port authority of allegheny county annual report. it’s effectively just a bus map. but depicted as a wheel!
(if you didn’t know, pittsburgh buses are numbered counterclockwise radiating from downtown)
(that of course made it new jersey’s *second* light rail subway—the other, below, in newark is the first. it has been a subway for much longer and has its own fascinating history).
this was once one of the many railroad gateways to the hudson waterfront, carrying trains to & from a sprawling intermodal terminal in weehawken, where pax & freight crossed the river by boat. nearly 50 years after that terminal closed, the tunnel was converted for light rail.