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According to Wikipedia marta rail ridership is 227,000 daily.

Yep, you're right. Looked at the wrong column.

MARTA actually goes through most of the inner-city Atlanta neighborhoods you'd want it to go through. MARTA's failure isn't that it was built as a redevelopment system instead of a transit system, it's that there were vast structural and cultural impediments to its success.

If you look at the census data, you'll also notice that almost all of the neighborhoods MARTA passes through except the north are overwhelmingly black. Racism is a big factor in Atlanta's present urban form.

Also, regarding Indianapolis, note that Indianapolis is *REALLY SMALL* - the entire metro is about 1.7 million. The city-county merger masks this fact and I suppose it's worked from a marketing perspective because people treat it now as though it belongs in the tier of cities that includes Minneapo...

St. Louis (like Detroit) is a textbook case of why urban boundaries should keep expanding in the face of metro growth. Indianapolis is far from perfect, but its city-county merger is one of the biggest things it does have going for it.

They've also caused housing prices to explode, though. I guess that's the price you pay (especially when DC was widely regarded as Murder City what, six or seven years ago?) but I don't know if it's a great model to emulate either.

Most of the seats in the eastbound Green were taken this morning at about 7:45 when I got off at East Bank, but it wasn't standing room only or anything. That said, though, 7:45 isn't exactly peak hours either.

Yes, which is why we need to undo all the government regulation that is a handout to large-scale developers at the expense of the small-scale and incremental developments that made our cities dense and vibrant a century ago. Like the decent wages and minimum safety standards? Because those are what...

It was also a time when single-lot construction was economically feasible, which it isn't now. We underestimate the importance of that; the ability of a lot of different developers to fill in an area piecemeal was a major impetus to the rapid dense growth of late 19th and early 20th century cities.

It was built by private companies because we had not yet built urban freeways with the expectation that everyone get a car? I think he's referring to the fact that they were frequently built to relatively undeveloped areas as a way to spur development. The borough of Queens, for example, largely di...

Another person got hit this morning at Westgate.

This is exactly why it was so nuts to create makework for people who got into the trades during the housing boom of a decade ago. Nobody asked if there were flat out too many people competing for a sustainable level of work. And we slowed down the proper market feedback to tell people to find other...

The mobile app seems to be pretty much a wrapper of their mobile site. Looking at it again now it isn't terrible, but it lacks a lot of polish that you'd expect; it doesn't support normal iPhone gestures, the map is Google Maps' web-based embedded map instead of a native one, and you can't select a ...

So what happens if Republicans take the state House of Representatives? I assume there isn't much chance that this would get funded in the lame duck session.

NAM = Network Addon Mod. Makes the traffic routing much better.

CAM = Colossus Addon Mod. Changes the growth stages to be more realistic.

That's fine, but what is he going to do about it? I'm certainly not comfortable tearing down hundreds of homes when a community vote was split 50/50 between Penn and BNSF. Will CM Yang demand further study of the Oliver/Queen and Broadway/Washington options? I'd welcome that! If he's not going to d...

Does anyone honestly think Councilman Goodman would have voted in favor of the train if they'd "kept their promise" and moved the freight?

That livestream has been choppy as heck!

It stops every five seconds or so in Safari, but it works pretty well in Chrome. IDK.

Most of these speeches have been pretty silly so far.

Citymapper looks pretty nice. Transit (iPhone only) is pretty good if you don't have a car, since it has all the public transport plus Nice Ride. Realtime bus locations too, though it doesn't always work.

Last time I used it, OMGTransit's app barely worked. I was really disappointed.

I actually kind of like the podium. Hard to tell what it is, but whether it's sandstone or painted concrete, it won't look as bad as everyone is saying once it's done.