Lib Development

Working to make American transportation faster, cheaper, more reliable, and less safe | Econ & CS @UChicago | Read my blog! | More tweets at @authdevelopment

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

This person would have had to drive more than a quarter mile on fully grade-separated railroad tracks in order to make this video possible.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Seattle’s Link Light Rail service was suspended after a driver somehow ended up on the tracks at Mount Baker Station, an elevated platform roughly 30 feet above street level.

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wapo running party-swapped NY Post slop

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: The Trump administration is diverting at least $90 million from entry fees to national parks to fund a $1.6 million fireworks display and $76 million to repair fountains including the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to documents. https://t.co/QeFV9zh7Sy

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

@alisha_hg this is a Katie Porter level poster board

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@ElectricBoo4888 wait what is the cost per driver statistic based off of?

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@ElectricBoo4888 This proposal is pretty unhinged lmao; Chicago and Milwaukee is 3x the distance from Dallas to Fort Worth

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

Chicago is like the one city in the country where freeways are underbuilt and the city definitely still needs new freeways. Why are our urbanists smoking crack cocaine instead of simply upzoning the city and creating a better business environment

[Streetsblog Chicago @streetsblogchi]

At Friday’s CMAP meeting on DLSD, staff said the Illinois and Chicago transpo departments are going back to the drawing board. Could freeway removals like that of Seoul's Cheonggye Expressway inspire a more people-friendly road layout on our shoreline?
https://t.co/JTvPd5uRb3

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

@pac12pch One of the secrets of the limited access route is that it acts as a sink for traffic, and allows you to narrow the neighborhood streets

But honestly outside of that one short section of Columbus idk what you’re talking about, river north is ~fine as is

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@tnertz @lacherbauer The data is on my side here! Chicago is a huge low outlier in terms of regionwide % VMT served by freeways (sorted in descending order of MSA size, so chicago is #3)

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If your account isn’t blockable it probably doesn’t have any substance

[croissant @almostnora]

why would anyone block me 🥺🥺🥺

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

Wait so in California a 17-year-old can drive a car but can't be a passenger in a Waymo by herself?

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

Very typical of the CTA to have a bus get stuck in a cellular dead zone. fuck my stupid chud life

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

One of the zippers on my backpack failed and while I managed to fix it I suppose I’m now in the market for a new one. Does anyone have recommendations?

Primary requirement is that it has to fit a 17 inch laptop and have meaningful capacity beyond that.

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

@_AashishReddy How the fuck are they giving 78% for essays with “no meaningful advice” for improvement

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

This is bad. A part of the southernization of America. Why is there so much space under the roof and yet outdoors?

I can see my future as a 2010s retvrnposter and I don’t like it

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Hello next generation McDonald's. They trying to get away from the beige box

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

@MannyMarotta do you… know what the wmata farebox recovery rate is?

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@BorisBartlog money can be exchanged for goods and services

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Korean society: so how are people going to receive old age pensions if everyone in the country is old?

Korean government: well, we, uh

Americans coming around the corner with a literal truckload of money: Are you guys the people who make RAM?

[Marco De Donno @stonksandgoats]

@citrini What it means for the Korean economy and people when Samsung and SK Hynix are about to pay $430 BILLION in taxes in FY26-28.

That's half the Korean public debt.

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

@jaketropolis doors have to open at every station (so no express) but I don’t have to actually exit the train

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

Readers of the previous thread will have guessed most of my route but anyways, it starts at Washington/Wells with all the loop stations. My train is the one in 7 minutes, it’s seemingly 4 minutes early, which is likely to just be a +4 minutes penalty. Not the best start…

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

Good morning everyone! I’m going to be attempting the CTA all stations challenge today! Longtime followers will know that I have tried to do this before, getting as close as 8 minutes away from the 8-hour 58-minute record. (thread, 1/many)

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@originalwololo no?
some of the college girls are also 22

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@MostlyMonkey >only an extra 75k
>breaks immediately
>second extra 75k

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@selfattentive behold, the time value of the college student