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Congestion pricing is great, but I am pointing out the underlying politics, its just being used to prolong the car first status quo in these cities. theres not really an earnest fo…

The financial & car industries have been immensely successful at making cars accessible to all consumers. Anyone with an income, a bit of credit history and a pulse can roll out of…

"the plane should never have gotten the green light to fly." this is an overstatement. airframe fuel efficiency is a undoubtable good thing vis a vis climate change, costs, etc. Ob…

http://www.ktvu.com/news/bart-investigating-3-violent-deaths... https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-s-approval-... slightly depends on your entry/exit stations but I w…

agree with most of the other comments in this thread, but would add - BART is an extremely filthy and dangerous transit system by any 1st world standard, and I say this as a lifelo…

there's always been bad information but it was previously hard to disseminate NEW bad information quickly. It was incredibly expensive, slow and there were watchers, gatekeepers ..…

financial illiteracy is a real problem in journalism. You can't really judge how egregious/successful these guys were without knowing the annualized NET revenue of this business.

another clickbait article from this organization. "${TechCo} paid X% in taxes but it should have paid Y% * Current Year Net Income". What specifically is ITEP arguing for? GAAP pro…

tl;dr we are upset GAAP net income does not equal taxable income.

Caltrain electrification is a comparatively small project and seems will happen quickly regardless of HSR. the Bay Area provides 40% of state tax revenue and, even worse, externali…

how pointless that the state is spending decades and tens of billions on HSR from SF to LA for a hypothetical sub-3 hour journey, while it still takes 1.5 to 2.5 hours to get betwe…

+ VTA light rail + BART in 2026 too bad the SJC airport runway axis runs straight across downtown. They could otherwise go much much higher/denser in the urban core. Capitol Corrid…

from my observation, the primary drivers are 1) the heroin/fentanyl epidemic 2) political choices or fiscal constraints as local spending on public healthcare/shelters/mental-wards…

it's a non-violent crime of opportunity. police time is $150/hour at least. all your loses seem to be covered by the banks, aside from the car window, which um happens to people al…

guess the Telecoms or their lobbyists hired some small sketchy 3rd party PR/astroturfing firms to do this, and those people will take the fall but blow back to AT&T, Comcast, Veriz…

on a 2 year window its pretty accurate. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y Max view also true that 2 years a very long time for an economic/investment hypothesis to play out…

a better way to understand the causality between yield curves and recessions is to look at it from the perspective of the banking sector ... banks/lenders primarily borrow short-te…

this is basically what happens when BigTechCorp leaves its product decisions to the competitive empire building machinations of middle managers with 4 year vesting

"just need to live further away" there's the rub. most suburban outposts of transit on the west coast just have SFH around them, which is a nice $billion entitlement to public infr…

so instead of rent you pay interest, various property taxes, and hoa, maintenance, or property management. Most of which are still subject to inflation and price/wage disparity. a …

some aspects of the political problems are definitely driven by voting blocs rather than money per se. For example, construction trade unions leverage generally block changes to si…

"Houston, the fourth-most-populous city in the nation, has cut its homeless population in half since 2011, in part by creating more housing for them."