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It ain't cheap to do real estate development, and own source is a tiny piece of the budget pie. It makes up just 83M of a 2.5B budget. Even without land acquisition costs, you'd have to find tens of millions in the T budget to build anything without partnering with outside money - and by doing...

I mean... how many of us are in a position to be choosing charter operators? Not I, at least - the only times I've flown "private" were in a twin piper piloted by a friend who happens to also be a captain at a legacy carrier. Besides... to the best of my knowledge, unless you're doing it via one...

They owned the jet already, and presumably paid the crew insurance etc, so for them its whatever marginal cost of fuel would be. For them, it probably does come out cheaper than the 12k+ Air France ticket. But its the call the pilots and go experience - basically no tsa at the FBO, no lounge...

This honestly highlights the current weakness of dispatchable renewable energy - most current and planned BESS installations I've seen are only able to dispatch their rated nameplate capacities for 4-8hrs, which while sufficient for short term peaker duty, that is much less sufficient over the...

Ehhhh the official colors that define digital and print media often doesn’t translate well to paint that has to exist on variable surfaces in the tangible world. UV fading, varying reflectivity, materials (paint behaves differently on plastic vs metals), lighting conditions... theres a reason...

Per last Thursday's board meeting, the first pilot car is largely complete for delivery this spring, revenue service next year 🙌 (I realize its not likely to be the default state, but I happen to prefer the look without the wheel spats. I've seen the occasional type 9 with them missing, and I...

A lot of that is other things being branded as AI - not everything automated or based on statistical analysis has a ton in common with Gen-AI.

No one would miss it, but its also a perfectly good building that probably wouldn't be replaced with anything bigger. What I am surprised by is their decision to site this new building on the front lawn, which will basically completely obscure the pre war building, when they have a perfectly...

Do the banks actually have that much influence over that? Like a house pledged to a bank as collateral, it doesn’t matter if the collateral isn't worth as much as it was the loan was taken out - even if you're underwater on the loan, you (or the resturanteur) still owe the bank 500k. Here the...

Exactly that - I guess Quint Cities doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but yea - "The Quad Cities is a region of five cities" thing is what I was going for.

Remember white hard hats only so we can be sure no work gets done :p

Theres no reason she wouldn't be able to - registration holds are for unpaid parking violations, not merely getting a lot of them. Unlike moving violations, there's no point system at play here. Same thing with the boot/tow list - its for >5 unpaid tickets. If someone pays them promptly, which...

I think the closest you get on this continent is NYCT - at the end of the day, they only have two "fleets" of rolling stock - the A (IRT) and B (BMT&IND) divisions and over 6700 total cars, so they're kinda always buying something - plus, my understanding is that NYC Subway actually designs the...

Impressively fast! Did you need the clues, or was standalone arrivals building enough to find them?

This 16 story structure is not the tallest inhabitable structure in this poorly named metro area, but it is the tallest building in its city. It is slated for demolition as its previous user has moved to newer and better facilities, which despite early planning for a building that would have...

Seeing someone's basically got it, this is in the village of Itasca Illinois - population of <10k, 5.0 mi², roughly 20 miles from downtown, and almost perfectly in the runway centerline for runway 27C at O'hare. It gets away with that bc Midwest sprawl - its ~4 miles away. As far as a MA...

One last one before I take a break from airports: This standalone international arrivals facility is slated for demolition and replacement with a new 2 gate facility at this airport which has seen a significant decline in passenger numbers in the past decades, largely due to changing aviation...

A quick check of the city of Boston's financials seems to indicate that parking enforcement is actually pretty strongly revenue positive, so the city should be willing to spend more on enforcement since it more than pays for itself. but generally I hold the general opinion that city controlled...

I know exactly where this is since I've been to a meeting here, so I'm going to leave it for the moment. That said, once answered, I have comments.

This airfield served by a multitude of domestic carriers is a common winter home of birds you're more likely to see closer to home during the summer.