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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
@Nerd4Cities
Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. linktr.ee/CityNerd
Guy who drives a $70,000 pickup truck and thinks his neighbors are elitists for owning a $1500 ebike- The thing I always notice about stuff like this is, the people talking about how big their car payments are always seem secretly proud, like spending that much on a car is a flex, rather than evidence that they’ve been utterly brainwashed by slick marketing and peer pressureWhat is wrong with people. $3,000 a month in car payments. These people pay a mortgage for 2 cars. I just don’t understand.
00:00 - Not a fan of the term “virtue signaling,” but if anything is virtue signaling it’s spending $80k on a vehicle that’s essentially an SUV with a little bit of space in the back to signal what a no-nonsense, salt of the earth, hardworking dude you are
- It’ll never stop blowing my mind that we can build stuff like this for one day of an automobile race but can rarely do the simplest things to improve transit or the pedestrian realmThe temporary bridges for @F1LasVegas are being vehicle tested today. I was on the first double decker bus to drive over it. There will be two of these placed at Flamingo and Koval ahead of the November race. Two lanes each direction. Public use until race weekend
00:00 - Replying to @jordanbpeterson and @APGreat to see the definition of “woke” now includes stopping people from dying
- Being able to walk downstairs and procure a $5 rotisserie chicken gives new meaning to the term “affordable walkability”
- The comments on this are wild. “Spain’s population is much larger than the region of the US shown” do people actually activate brain cells before they post on hereThe USA is “too big” for high speed rail but look at the size of Spain over the Midwest and its high speed rail system. Nashville to Chicago, when?
- Imagine being this mad about saving livesDriver will be not wait an extra 30 seconds in name of public safety. He WILL turn right on red!
00:00 - “The US is too spread out to support high quality passenger rail” is obviously untrue in the northeast, but also, hidden inside the US is a nation-state roughly the size of Spain, but more populous. (Spain has fantastic intercity rail.) From today’s video:
- Freedom vs 15-Minute City imprisonment
- Imagine living in a country where the “urbanized” areas mostly look like this and thinking there’s a conspiracy to make you live without a car, rather than a conspiracy to do the exact opposite.
- If Wikipedia is to be believed, the busiest train station in the world at the end of the 19th century wasn’t in Europe. It wasn’t even on the east coast of the US. It was this one:
