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    Key Bridge Collapses in Baltimore

    They were able to scramble cruisers to stop traffic. The police audio is something else: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/26/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-maryland/
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    Key Bridge Collapses in Baltimore

    Both heartbreaking and terrifying. Thinking of all the people who were on the bridge when it happened - a reminder of how quickly life can turn due to things out of your control, something I'm all too familiar with at this point. Sounds like, amazingly, they've gotten two people alive out of the...
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    General City Planning/Urban Design Thread

    Noah Smith on Japan: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/secrets-of-japanese-urbanism-part
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    Wouldn't the Hynes be over the tracks?
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    🔷 Open Thread

    I'm sure this has been posted here before, but I have a work trip in the New Haven area, and I encountered this today, which may be the single most cheeky bit of architecture I've ever seen: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MvWLNGVGqDhD9WpM6
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    MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

    I'm usually more of the preservationist type for these things, but man, that hotel (it's a Wyndham now, I guess?) has got to go. Drives me nuts that One Post Office Square had to be reclad, but this Topeka-Thinks-Its-Vegas looking thing sticks around like a cockroach. Sorry to go off topic...
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    CambridgeSide Galleria Reno/Redev | First Street | East Cambridge

    I'm glad that it appears to be more of a restoration than a redesign. That has always been one of my favorite outdoor spaces in the metro area.
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    My parents would read that to my late son when they watched him. Excellent book.
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    Hawai'i

    Looks like you did Hawaii the "right" way by picking one island and sticking to it. We island hopped for our honeymoon (4 days on Waikiki as a base with daytrips to the big island and Maui and then 3 days in Kauai) and I got pretty burned out with all the tours. There were some other extenuating...
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    Quincy General Developments

    I've always wondered what the history of that odd office-park-lite section of Newport Ave. is. It's so incongruous to it's surroundings. Very little of the adjacent marshland got developed, did environmental law prevent that?
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    Kendall/MIT Infill and Small Developments

    I see what they've done with those sculptures/benches, they're cool, but man are the trypophobics going to hate them.
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    Cars

    The Rolex 24 was quite an experience, especially from a healing standpoint. The AO Racing Porsche, known as "Rexy", sported my son's name as a memorial after the team saw my tweet with Anthony wearing a Rexy shirt. Finished 2nd in class (GTD Pro)! Rexy also has an LMP2 teammate who's a...
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    Flickr Finds & Social Media Pics

    https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=962480182267228&set=a.545112254004025
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    How long have you lived here?

    I was talking about this with someone the other day and they didn't remember it! I was in 8th or 9th grade when it was open, and I remember going in there and getting overwhelmed, then just walking back out to go to the regular food court. A bit too ahead of its time, I think.
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    Daytona International Speedway

    Through an incredible circumstance (a team honoring my late son on their race car) I ended up at Daytona for the Rolex 24 over the weekend. I had been to Daytona last March but not for a race and only for a couple of hours, the 24 gave me a few days to spend at the facility and I came away...

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