urbanism

Ready player one is closer than we think (hexbear.net)

Normal empire in decline shit. (hexbear.net)

nbcnews.com/…/barge-slams-galveston-bridge-texas-…

The Simple Genius of the Buffalo Bicycle (youtu.be)

The Buffalo Bicycle is a robust, utilitarian, and serviceable bicycle made to help the most remote communities on the planet. Today, we will closely examine the Buffalo Bicycle and show how its incredible engineering has created perhaps the most purpose-built machine ever and how it helps communities access healthcare, clean...

Perfect timing for this guys, really great job 10/10 no notes. For fuck sakes. (hexbear.net)

Context: ancaptain about to privatize (ie kill) the few trains we have left.

Soviet housing is so depressing (d1sw4fcdq5we39.cloudfront.net)

Wait that’s Japan? walter-shock

Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And that’s a problem | CNN (www.cnn.com)

What's stopping your city's metro from looking like this? (hexbear.net)

Every metro interior should strive to look like a wood-paneled station wagon

Wonsan, DPRK (hexbear.net)

I'm going to become the Robert Moses of trains, and drive a goddamn line through the street of each one of these finance dickwads that think they're too good to take the fucking train. (hexbear.net)

twitter.com/HempsteadTown/…/1786077699930264014...

Common train W + there is always traffic (hexbear.net)

twitter.com/ThunderWolf08/…/1784742168030007372

RETVRN (hexbear.net)

Coolest dick-measuring contest: Bologna had 180 towers in the 12th century (hexbear.net)

Shin-Kobe Ropeway (upload.wikimedia.org)

Learn a trade, bro. (hexbear.net)

www.npr.org/2024/04/…/fbi-agents-housing-costs...

Capitalism breeds innovation (hexbear.net)

If you die in the cantilever part, you go to railfan Valhalla (hexbear.net)

twitter.com/NYCPlanning/…/1774846351655707033

A new kind of crossing just dropped. (hexbear.net)

bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/…/3koyffl27so22

["Not the Onion" urbanism news] Ex-Caltrain employee, contractor charged with building secret homes at train stations (www.mercurynews.com)

REDWOOD CITY — A former high-level employee and a one-time contractor for Caltrain have been charged with felonies after being accused of building themselves secret mini-apartments inside two Peninsula train stations, all on the taxpayers’ dime, according to authorities and court records....

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