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This rendering for when the neighborhood parking lots are filled in looks fantastic.

Imho even the New Haven Union station is more beautiful than the South Station main concourse lol.

The view at night

https://www.boston.com/news/transportation/2025/05/29/fairmount-line-commuter-rail-will-see-limited-service-through-fall/

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/22/exas-republicans-legislature-housing-affordability/ Skimming some articles online and found this. Looks like there's a lot of housing legislation in the works in Texas. I saw there's a bill that cleared the senate legalizing single stairway buildings...

Wow, this has been a really fun read, thanks for putting this together!

It's not even just high rises either, Austin is building huge amounts of 3-5 story residential neighborhoods outside of downtown, like none of this was here 10 years ago. They're outbuilding us in like every type of building short of labs lol.

https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/mbta-cabot-rail-equipment-ma-42214-42214/item/48-rail-car-0578-262585/ Bidding just ended on this flat car which NETransit Inventory says was originally built for BERy in 1928 :ROFLMAO:

I think this has been really interesting to watch happen in real time. I feel like housing market dysfunction in particular has been driving left of center types to recognize the importance of market allocation (and increasingly in other areas as well). Funnily enough I was just reading a blog...

Fellow zoomer 🤝 This is a big part of state capacity liberalism that they talk about in the introduction, that a large bureaucracy not only is a little politically insulated but also obviates the necessity for lawsuits in every dispute or variance adjustment. It's definitely a matter of wait...

I read through the introduction but not beyond that so my perspective is a little limited rn. I think the intro works pretty well given my understanding of what the authors' goals seemed to be from how people talk about the book as offering an alternative set of heuristics for liberals to judge...

1151 Walnut St, Newton (25 units)

Looks like there are a handful of smaller lots in the plans, but mostly just more superblocks lol. I don't think I mind it that much, they aren't that much larger than the residential blocks next door and I assume they're saving money on the economies of scale. That said, I do hope that once the...