traingang

I commute about 16km~ daily on a cheap bike. The components are bad, it sucks going up hills, and even with good cycling infrastructure I don't want to ride across town or carry more than a backpack. Next year the prices on ebikes in the US are going to start going monkey in response to both Biden and Trump's tariffs on China this seems like it's my last cheap chance to minimise my car use. I went with a Lectric Xpress which seemed to be the best urban commuter at a low price. Good enough to last but not nice enough to steal over the bikes next to it.

Remember, we don't need to have semi-trucks everywhere, there are alternatives

The railroad ran from East Boston to Lynn and had a branch to Winthrop Beach. The line ran frequent commuter service until 1940 when it was closed down and partially replaced with the MBTA Blue Line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%2C_Revere_Beach_and_Lynn_Railroad

Trains are so cool but Class 1 railroads in Amerikkka are hell to work for, solidarity with all the workers on the railroad.

If anyone has any thoughts on this, good or bad, please post them in the comments. Yes, you can still post other urbanism stuff too, I just want to see more pictures of trains.

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in a sense it's a bullpup technical

yeah it's concrete, yeah I was drunk and tired,

:angery: ouch

Incoming: Heavy use of scare-quotes to emphasize I don’t agree with certain framings which nonetheless get my point across.

It’s hard not to be suspicious of any new housing built in an American city. A new apartment building intended for low-income tenants was opened in the “poor side” of town in an area I used to live.

For op sec, I won’t share which city, but consider a typical American town with rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods, and guess where most of the crime and policing is.

Is this a progressive move?

On the one hand, lowering housing costs is always a good thing, especially when it helps people who have less.

On the other hand, it could be a cynical ploy to continue quarantining “the poors” somewhere far away from the “nice” neighborhoods.

My gut feeling is that some sort of mixed-income housing would be the best progressive stepping stone because, gradually, middle class (ie white) people would have an increasing stake in this neglected part of town. But then again, that could also become a form of gentrification which ends up displacing the poorer tenants, so this solution would have to include some sort of rent control to work.

Here's another view. Unfortunately, it lives under capitalism and seems to be run by slumlords.

Idk much about this, but thought it was cool.

Side note, it’s kinda sus that Siri claims him as an American academic when clearly he’s a Chinese man who has studied in America 🤔 and has taught at Peking University since 1997.

I haven't seen these types of disposable vapes littered on the ground where I live, maybe it's more of a UK thing, or maybe I just haven't noticed them.