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Transit Costs Project Researcher 英国基進主義者 (English state buildingism...its better in the Sino-Japanese). Profile banner is Himeji's city plan on just 6 A4 pages, profile pic is Nagasawa Ryosetsu's picture of Crane (the virtuous man) staring at your soul.

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 12d

This is Himeji city's current city plan (western edge of Kansai's urban belt, 500,000 people, giant original castle). On 6 sides of A4. If you can't do that, you're planning system is probably not very good.
(For more on this ask for my dissertation on Himeji's transit oriented development)

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 5m

Are you thinking Kamikawa or Inada here?

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1h

That point you made about the bravery it took to go to the US and get into politics without big patrons always stuck with me.

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 3h

でしょうねぇ。

Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 4h

Amateurs talk about NK (Nippon Kaigi). Professionals talk about NK (New Kōmeitō).

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 3h

I had 300 characters. India is big. The BJP controls most states, Modi controls the centre, and the centre controls a lot of the funding capacity.
Sure Tamil Nadu is Gujarat. Kerala isn't Bihar.
But poor transport infra prioritisation is a consistent problem (Indian Railways is awesome).

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 4h

Is climate really a barrier to making cities walkable? Only if you listen too much to elites ... humantransit.org/2025/10/nobo...

"Nobody Walks Here. It's too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry." — Human Transit

Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. ...

humantransit.org

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 4h

1. The problem is the unaccountable, uncosted, discretionary nature of the Heritage process. If you get rid of grade II other things will fill in the gap.
2. Its about preserving the social order and exerting social power over society. Orange Order Marches/Lynchings for the Property owning classes

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 5h

From 2003 A New Deal for Transport. Shows UK rail performance 1947-2001. The contrast between the collapse of rail freight km and modest decline in passenger KM. Also can you see Beeching Cuts? Neither can I.

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 5h

But you're not the Green party of Britain. Scottish Greens are gone, and Welsh Greens have divorced.
Why not admit "the Greens" are just the Green party of "the country".

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 6h

You and your awesome sexy graphics.

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 6h

There's chart number 2 for the 5% figure

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 6h

If I was LDs I would be talking all the time about how both Tories and Labour think southern England whether leafty or uban is seen by Labour/Tories/Reform as 2nd class citizens in electoral and fiscal rights. They need to unite Newbury and Newham.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 7h

lol abolishing stamp duty is a policy that will prove hugely popular with the wonk set before absolutely blowing up the moment they announce what would replace it - or, alternatively, how they'd fund the lost revenue

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 6h

Another dope @mauricelange.bsky.social graph, showing the New Town housing ouput during the Postwar period peaking in the late 1960's....and how small current government plan is.
And housing output of New Town golden age was apparently just 5% of total.

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 7h

1. Airports are much easier to build than HSR/Metros/Roads/Plumbing/Houses for the poor.
2. Rich people in India take the plane.
3. Modi likes things where he can have a press event so 1. is really important to him.
4. Gujarat model of patronage politics.

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 7h

Of course both went to the same school. Two different ultra-nationalist agitators from the resentful middle classes of decaying outer Britain obsessed with violence, conquest and plunder.

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 8h

Way to Productivity shame your colleagues @chittimarco.bsky.social
(Its a great post go read).

Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 17h

Since I had run out of brainpower for more important tasks, I decided to dedicate the end of my afternoon to writing the story of Genova, its railways, its tunnels, and, of course, its port, finally putting to good use some historical mapping I had done a while ago

open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...

Genova and its railways

A mapped story of ships, boats, tunnels and freight trains.

open.substack.com

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 8h

Oh look he's a pivoted to video.
N/B I too wanted to start my pivot to video with a phonebox, but with a different spin...i.e. WHY DO CENTRAL LONDON BOROUGHS KEEP THE DAMN THINGS ON ROTTING ON SUPER BUSY PEDESTRIAN STREETS!
"future generations"

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 11h

Brutally on target from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social.

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1d

Don't blame the model, just how you use it.

Also like India and Canada have been here since the 1970's.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

ARE YOU LISTENING MAURICE DUVERGER?? YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING

TONY DOWNS, CAN YOU HEAR ME? WHERE IS YOUR MEDIAN VOTER NOW???

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the sainted 1945 Government deliberately tried to murder the city with the 1947 TCPA. Its to be expected when your ideology is that people in Paisley, Swansea and Barnsley are the moral master race of Britain and the Universe.
Urban Southern England is scary.

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1d

And I forgot to point out, Milan is pretty much the furthest away from the coast you can get in Italy. It need to import more via rail. Naples is a port.
"colonial" memes never seem to ask why regions in the core also replicate the same network logic (East Anglia, Oz state etc).

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1d

N/B I should not have used Apulia since it has no Winnipeg. My bad. But Canadian provinces are biiiiig and unusually self-contained among OECD sub-national units.

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1d

?
Also 1.5 million people in a territory the size of Ukraine makes it easier to spread natural resource incomes.

Borners @borners.bsky.social · 1d

My model is 3.5 routes to wealth for a urban zone.
1. Logistics nodality. 2. Capital 3. Lots natural resources per capita. 3.5. Tourism (low value added though).
Manitoba is semi-3. but still way below Canadian average as much as Apulia.