Thanks for keeping it all oppo here at Pandemlopnik.

Excel.

Yeah, the Seattle metro has been building a light rail system and costs keep going up mainly due to ROW costs. The actual building part is fine.

What in the actual fuck are you talking about?

Ya gotta who lots of assumptions in there buddy. Better think about how you would get that done as someone who lives in a transit dominated city rather than a car-centric suburban shit hole.

Had a talk with the managers at my office, and in no uncertain terms told them that unless they reopened the office accessible by public transport I would not be coming back into the office to do work I could do at home. They agree since their remaining deep suburban office is about 25% of the size they need if…

Yeah, just down the road from me it goes from “Kitsap silt loam (which is really just highly weathered till) ” to “Vashon age glacial till” which, in case you’re unfamiliar, is silt/clay with sand, gravel, and cobbles; hard, and an excellent aquitard. There’s a group of houses built past where the sewer system ends…

Man, that’s a shitty situation. A shituation if you will. My FIL got his drain field aerated to get another decade out of the thing, and I’m knocking on wood I can get another 20 out of my drain field. At least it’s in a sandy silt that has a high transmissivity so it’s flowing OK as near as I can tell. The duplex at…

We’ve had a hell of a time scheduling drillers to complete work, since they also have the skills to be equipment operators and construction workers and that sector is booming in the PNW. Basically, the drilling companies have lost whole crews to new jobs/each other. There’s a real disconnect between what the subs are…

Dunno, do your own fucking homework.

Hey: path dependence is not destiny.

“I’VE ALWAYS LIVED LIFE THIS WAY AND NOW MY JOB HAS BEEN MADE REDUNDANT DUE TO THE MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY AND I STILL LIVE NEXT TO THE OLD FACTORY AND THOSE DURNED FURRINERS TOOK MY JOB AND I HAVE TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE OR ELSE WHAT IS THIS SOME 3RD WORLD COUNTRY AND IN BFE WHERE I LIVE 20 MILES OUTSIDE OF THERE’S NO WAY…

The author lives in Detroit, which everyone knows has NYC beat hands-down for hostility to cars, public transportation, and urban density.

Banning cars in the central parts of large cities where the majority of traffic is pedestrian and transport dependent anyways is completely different than banning cars in bum fuck egypt or wherever the loudest commentators seem to mostly live. That said I live in a city of <50,ooo people and I could absolutely do my…

Honestly, I’ve found it is the opposite. The scheduled nature of public transport makes it a lot easier to plan around getting to work, and the general frequency during rush-hours vs. off-times is enough to make the difference. You’re thinking about this backwards: Getting to work during the week and not having to…

This is an insane take. I’ve lived in plenty of cities that aren’t NYC and Chicago and shopped fine without a car. 

We should ban diesel! Really the problem is diesel.

how does this decrease your love of jalopnik? It’s possible to really enjoy cars where they belong (the open road) and also admit that mobilizing a 2-ton mobile hut to haul 250 lbs of your tubby ass and your shit around is an astonishing waste of resources when there’s other alternatives.

Jalopnik has always been transportation, broseph. And being interested in cars doesn’t mean you have to be a fan of them in all cases.

Sure, but that’s an edge case. Your occasional dinner trip in a motor vehicle isn’t what’s contributing to rush hour, or traffic jams, or whatever. On the contrary, having vehicle restrictions, effective public transport, and bikes makes it a lot easier to use your personal mobile hut to get to places you need it for.…