Move the Raiders to Portland or Sacramento (largest US markets without an NFL team, other than St. Louis)

No, it was just built at the worst possible time. The 90s saw a dramatic change in the approach to stadium construction. Stadiums built before the shift , such as Jones, the Georgia Dome, BoA, Everbank, Fedex, all tend to be fully wrap-around bowls. Newer stadiums tend to be more angular, with open corners. Newer…

There are obvious things not to like here:

in Europe a CR-V is gigantic. I was in France over the summer, and a colleague from Switzerland picked me up at the hotel. I got in his car chuckling to myself, and he asked what was funny. While I was waiting I realised that a Nissan Juke was the biggest car on the block.

As a Philadelphian and a Flyers fan, I’m in favor of relegation because fuck the sixers.

Yeah, that was hyperbole.

It’s because he doesn’t actually care about having a competitive league that brings soccer to multiple major markets. He wants the Euro model where there’s 2 great teams constantly beating up on a rotating cast of mediocre domestic teams. Basically, if he can jump on a nice safe bandwagon of an “elite” team that…

Unfortunately, while the Post office is nice above ground, it’s going to provide poor access to the actual train platforms, as only the longsest of them actually extend that far west. It’s also an avenue further away from the 7th avenue subways and the 34th St - Herald Square station.

Brasil is a big country, but most of their soccer teams are on the the southeast coast. Much like the US has the big, mostly empty plains and mountains, Brasil has the Amazon.

college basketball teams have been around for decades, and have very specific ties to communities. If they have a couple of bad recruiting classes, they still have their history, still have other things drawing students to the school

RCD Mallorca is a team celebrating its centennial, and spent much of the last two decades playing in one of the top sports leagues in the world. They are also the only significant sports option on a resort island, part of a country where the next most popular sport is trying not to get gored by bulls. It’s a vastly…

This is hardly new. Megabloks have been around for decades, with near-Lego quality, and their newer mini action figures are a creative departure from the blocky minifigs.

That he worked before in sanitation is telling. It suggests that he was “promoted” into a combat role, and maybe he was just a space janitor whose brainwashing didn’t take.

Britain is weird when it comes to price points. You’d think if we can get something for $60 in the US, they could get it for £40, but they will almost never go below the US number, so they end up paying half again more for everything. It’s partially due to VAT, which is built into the list price, whereas US sales…

Enjoy it while you can Travis. Once you start wearing Flyers orange you will never get that call

I’m curious how the economics of highways shook out in that class. A lot of transportation studies tend to have a windshield perspective, and ignore both the sunk costs and network effects that create the “everybody drives” mentality. Essentially, rail transit and general, and high speed rail in particular look bad…

Even without the future of driverless cars, new highways are an almost total waste. All they do is encourage sprawl and create congestion. We need to be spending that money on maintaining current roads (even though many of them are excessive) and creating modern transit infrastructure. 80% of the country lives in…

We don’t spend enough on infrastructure as a % of GDP, compared to modern developed nations.

Suburbs are city-centric. They don’t exist without the city, and the transit and road networks that originate from it.