Interlocker
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Making sure your train doesn’t crash since 2018
PTC Defender
NYC
PTC Defender
NYC
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But there's no magical job title that's going to house these employees.
They're not qualified for any maintenance roles.
Cleaner is a *demotion*.
They're afraid of assaults so station agent is unpopular.
Tower operator is being nuked by CBTC and ATS.
There's nowhere to reallocate these employees.
They're not qualified for any maintenance roles.
Cleaner is a *demotion*.
They're afraid of assaults so station agent is unpopular.
Tower operator is being nuked by CBTC and ATS.
There's nowhere to reallocate these employees.
December 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
But there's no magical job title that's going to house these employees.
They're not qualified for any maintenance roles.
Cleaner is a *demotion*.
They're afraid of assaults so station agent is unpopular.
Tower operator is being nuked by CBTC and ATS.
There's nowhere to reallocate these employees.
They're not qualified for any maintenance roles.
Cleaner is a *demotion*.
They're afraid of assaults so station agent is unpopular.
Tower operator is being nuked by CBTC and ATS.
There's nowhere to reallocate these employees.
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Cuomintang sympathetic forces have launched a counter attack in the outer boroughs
Per recent reports, it appears that Julia Menin has attained the support needed to become Speaker of the NYC Council, with 35 Council People publicly supporting her — granting her 36 votes (including herself) to become Speaker of the Council.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Cuomintang sympathetic forces have launched a counter attack in the outer boroughs
I’m middle class and I want stuff
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I’m middle class and I want stuff
Guy in a Tobias Funke “I just blue myself“ costume being detained by cops at Roosevelt Ave. you can never say Halloween is boring.
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Guy in a Tobias Funke “I just blue myself“ costume being detained by cops at Roosevelt Ave. you can never say Halloween is boring.
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I’ve seen multiple people on TikTok opposing the ballot question that would move NYC elections on-cycle because it would “make it less special” and I can’t explain it but these are future NIMBYs
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I’ve seen multiple people on TikTok opposing the ballot question that would move NYC elections on-cycle because it would “make it less special” and I can’t explain it but these are future NIMBYs
Cardvaark Ice Cream Cake
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Cardvaark Ice Cream Cake
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This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …
acoup.blog
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
Greensburg has a surprisingly nice Amtrak station next to a very cool building
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Greensburg has a surprisingly nice Amtrak station next to a very cool building
This is similar to my flagship housing compromise where any building can be built anywhere but all triangles on the property must have interior angles that sum to 190 degrees
September 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is similar to my flagship housing compromise where any building can be built anywhere but all triangles on the property must have interior angles that sum to 190 degrees
“They put a gun to my head and told me unless I edited the slide deck I wouldn’t see the sunrise“
Harrowing stuff
Harrowing stuff
MUST READ “‘Career funnel,’ a phrase coined by sociologists … describes the mechanism behind the crowding of elite college graduates into 3 high-paying fields,” despite desire - and prior intention - to serve the public interest. Evan Mandery for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How America’s elite colleges breed high-status careers—and misery
“They funneled the shit out of me.”
www.motherjones.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“They put a gun to my head and told me unless I edited the slide deck I wouldn’t see the sunrise“
Harrowing stuff
Harrowing stuff
I understand why they’re doing this but I’m not really a fan of the change
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I understand why they’re doing this but I’m not really a fan of the change
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For the 1st time since the mid-20th c, a major urban US transit network is going to be largely destroyed.
Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, starting NEXT MONTH.
45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?”
wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/
Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, starting NEXT MONTH.
45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?”
wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/
Funding Crisis – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
wwww.septa.org
July 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
For the 1st time since the mid-20th c, a major urban US transit network is going to be largely destroyed.
Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, starting NEXT MONTH.
45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?”
wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/
Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, starting NEXT MONTH.
45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?”
wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/
Open question: Has the New York City subway gained or lost revenue track miles since February 29th 1968, the day the Program For Action was announced?
July 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Open question: Has the New York City subway gained or lost revenue track miles since February 29th 1968, the day the Program For Action was announced?
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@fredstaffordcs.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with this. The NYPA nuclear announcement should be celebrated as one of the most critical experiments in rebuilding state capacity in the country. The way we win is with big public investment at all scales:
jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies
Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can...
jacobin.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@fredstaffordcs.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with this. The NYPA nuclear announcement should be celebrated as one of the most critical experiments in rebuilding state capacity in the country. The way we win is with big public investment at all scales:
jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...
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Can’t speak to the generational aspect. But the “they’re going to draft us!” type rhetoric fits in the “Ugh tired of living in interesting times!” category of post in that they’re a kind of luxury belief that lets you feel like a put upon victim of things that are really victimizing other people.
this is basically true as a matter of strategy but also god do i hate that young zoomer men are such fucking marks
We had months to respond to this and didn't because leadership thought "being online" was a bad thing. I watched it spin up in real time
June 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Can’t speak to the generational aspect. But the “they’re going to draft us!” type rhetoric fits in the “Ugh tired of living in interesting times!” category of post in that they’re a kind of luxury belief that lets you feel like a put upon victim of things that are really victimizing other people.
Well everyone, the mayoral election is here. We have a choice between a man supported by the working classes of New York City, and a man supported by the wealthy professional class and recent gentrifiers
Hopefully the wealthy professionals win and we don’t have 8 years of Andrew Cuomo
Hopefully the wealthy professionals win and we don’t have 8 years of Andrew Cuomo
June 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Well everyone, the mayoral election is here. We have a choice between a man supported by the working classes of New York City, and a man supported by the wealthy professional class and recent gentrifiers
Hopefully the wealthy professionals win and we don’t have 8 years of Andrew Cuomo
Hopefully the wealthy professionals win and we don’t have 8 years of Andrew Cuomo
There’s a lot of housing people on here who pretend to be by the numbers market guys and it’s always funny when they give the game away by saying stuff like “landlords will not try to bid down brokers wages” and “landlords have been charging hundreds of dollars under market”
There were a lot of people saying the LL’s cost to rent out an apartment would simply fall a lot since, if they had to pay the fee directly, they would drive a harder bargain with brokers (which never made sense to me, given how not-extravagant rental brokers’ incomes already are).
June 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
There’s a lot of housing people on here who pretend to be by the numbers market guys and it’s always funny when they give the game away by saying stuff like “landlords will not try to bid down brokers wages” and “landlords have been charging hundreds of dollars under market”
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To put it another way, there is a nontrivial risk that Mamdani will badly mismanage the city bureaucracy, and a dead certainty that Cuomo will.
June 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
To put it another way, there is a nontrivial risk that Mamdani will badly mismanage the city bureaucracy, and a dead certainty that Cuomo will.
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It’s actually not a coincidence Prop 13, bond revolts, downzonings, the coastal act and CEQA all passed within the same 10ish year period by the same voters and elected officials.
June 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It’s actually not a coincidence Prop 13, bond revolts, downzonings, the coastal act and CEQA all passed within the same 10ish year period by the same voters and elected officials.
Don’t Canada my SEPTA
June 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Don’t Canada my SEPTA
@sturmovikdragon.bsky.social any chance you have a picture of the “Z” yard entrance signals at HUNT on the septa main
May 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@sturmovikdragon.bsky.social any chance you have a picture of the “Z” yard entrance signals at HUNT on the septa main
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Continuing my series of posts on the railroad industry's immense challenges managing complexity and market alignment, I have (finally) finished some thoughts on the trajectory of railroading's growth engine: intermodal
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
Why Railroading’s Growth Engine Might Be Stalling
Over the past year, American railroads seem to have discovered the value in growth. After over a decade of Wall St-fueled cost-cutting and service reductions, regulatory and financial pressures aro…
homesignalblog.wordpress.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Continuing my series of posts on the railroad industry's immense challenges managing complexity and market alignment, I have (finally) finished some thoughts on the trajectory of railroading's growth engine: intermodal
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...
If we really want to RETURN we should just ban shipping containers and mandate break of bulk points every 100 miles
May 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If we really want to RETURN we should just ban shipping containers and mandate break of bulk points every 100 miles