anytime you want to meet up for a drink in ATL area and go talk through how we can have better places to live for everyone I’m all for it. I’m just trying to build good places for people to live. 

Yeah, not BS. Like this is literally part of my job. You are missing the infrastructure cost to get power to the site. Most buildings aren’t 3-phase, or don’t have the transformer capacity. Your $1k is also for a non-managed, non-metered, non-ganged plug. We can’t install those. Also not taking into account, service…

Electrical load is negligible. But infrastructure cost is high. There is plenty of capacity. 

So you want higher rents to go with your be charging spaces? I say this as I develop apartment buildings. It costs us about $20k per space for charging. On a 400 space deal (-350 apartment homes) your 25% is $2m or $5,714.29 per home. I’d have to raise rents about $35/month across the board. Or a 2.2% raise on a deal…

these aren’t properly marked. And also, why I prefer different speed control methods. 

OHSA fines escalate. Which is why Tesla’s lawyers will spend $100k in legal fees getting the $30k one off the books. They are designed like other fines (stormwater) to be progressive. They aren’t worried about this fine, accidents happen in the workplace. They are worried about the next one and them being labeled as…

I’m very liberal. But not dumb. Isolationism leads to world wars. In the past 2,000 years there has only been 1 country that has been more devoted to peace, safety, and stability post ww2. And that is the US.

You can try to reason a shit ton around that statement, but it holds true.

Give me the money and I’ll build you 23,500 2-3 bedroom homes.

this is stupid argument. You increase the requirements and licensure of guns, and thus restrict the entire market of production. Every gun gets tied to a licensed person to have it. If it is found in the hands of someone else or stolen, they are still responsible for it. It’s not hard.

I lived in AZ, CO, & west TX it was always a shortage. And of course we always complained because we didn’t want to send any water to CA. Now being in GA, it’s like a different world.

They just build lakes of water. For fun. it’s weird.

maple syrup that crosses state lines isn’t maple syrup anymore....

water shortages are real issues though. We all have water restrictors on our showers cause of lack of water out west. 

Now that is a big fing project. What i’m surprised about is how cheap it has been. Not enough is talked about how successful it is. 

*laughs at the cheap cost of water, and warm showers, oh and grass, and trees, and lake houses, and maple syrup*

the people who tend to go out on bad days, and have ill prepared cars, also tend to be the people who need to go out the most. e.g. low wage workers that risk job loss.

It isn’t a feasibility experiment. It is a waste of money. If you can do the basic math and figure out it isn’t worth it then it’s just stupid marketing.

really? that is about 50 200 home concrete buildings in Florida. or 19 bridges like the Baytown Bridge in TX. GDOT had projects lined up for 10m cubic yards of aggregate in 2017.

yeah, sorry there is no real basis of thought in social or economic conservatism. It has alot of fundamental flaws and logic errors that can’t be worked.

You also can’t apply economic conservative pricinciples and maintain social conservative principles. “I don’t want the govmt telling me what to do in my business, but…

to be fair to the slate writer, I wonder the same thing when this site publishes articles on mass transit / zoning / density / road design. Could they have bothered to give an expert or two a call prior to writing the article?

Buddy you throw all this mud at liberals for being “single issue fascists” and you ignore the whole world of right wingers using government power in far worse ways. I’ll just name a few:

I continue to be amazed at how no journalist actually wants to explain how google maps works, or that it is dependent, or perhaps owes its origins to public mapping data, that quite honestly isn’t the best.

There is no one who really maintains routing or mapping systems in the US. And it isn’t talked about enough.