Nick Aster

@boringcompany How about help build an actual metro system if these boring machines are so good.

Tunnel Vision Challenge results! We've been overwhelmed with the amazing submissions…so we are announcing three winners! The Thrilling Three are: - NOLA Loop (New Orleans, LA) - Ravens Loop (Baltimore, MD) - University Hills Loop (Dallas, TX) What happens next? TBC and the project stakeholders enter into a rigorous diligence process which includes: - Meetings with elected officials, regulators, community leaders, and business leaders - Geotechnical borings - Utility and subsurface infra investigation Once the diligence (100% funded by TBC) is complete, if all 3 projects are feasible, will fund/build all 3 - this would be awesome. If only 1 is feasible, will fund/build 1. IN ADDITION, there were multiple other projects that TBC thought were so compelling that we are going to continue to work with the entrants and try to get them built. This includes the following two: - Hendersonville Utility Tunnel (Hendersonville, TN) - Morgan's Wonderland Tunnel (San Antonio, TX) Thanks again to all of the participants - your enthusiasm and positivity has been inspiring for the TBC team.

@PhilaSanitation So what about Monday? If my regular collection is Monday does that get moved?

In observance of Good Friday, the City of Philadelphia will be closed today. There will be no trash or recycling collections today. Friday’s collection will be moved to Saturday, April 19, 2025.

@SecDuffy 100% bullshit. Has Sean Duffy ever even been to New York? I recently drove to NY (usually I take the train) and I was more than happy to pay $9. Congestion was noticeably less.

Hard working New Yorkers aren’t pissed off at the White House.  They’re pissed off about being charged $9 to use their own streets. Don’t take it from me, listen to what the people have to say about New York’s congestion pricing cash grab. End the disconnect. End congestion pricing. Now.

Trump: “I am a king and I declare congestion pricing to be killed” MTA: “lol, no” three days later and the congestion relief zone is still in effect. we are winning and we will keep winning against the mad king

@DJKeenstar @madcomawareness @alanthefisher I don’t know why I’m bothering engaging here. The concept here is high speed. In theory that means Chicago - Detroit could be as little as 2 hours. If we bothered to make the investment.

@nickaster @madcomawareness @alanthefisher You can already do Chicago to Detroit for $34 if you feel like sitting on a train for 5.5 hours lol. I don't see your point

You have to be genuinely stupid if you can't think of one reason why you'd take a train instead of flying

Professor Donald Shoup died on February 6th. He has a strong claim on being the scholar who will have had the greatest impact on your day-to-day life by focusing on an impossibly boring problem that was completely neglected before him: where we park our cars. 🧵

@DJKeenstar @alanthefisher You guys are missing the point. The point is all the other cities along that route. Also, remember the flight needs an extra hour added for security and getting to and from the airport.

@alanthefisher I can think of a very small handful but it's far and away the better option to fly. It's often times cheaper and faster to fly, I'm confused why anyone would pay more to spend 5 additional hours in a steel can

I think Congestion Pricing is the first law passed in my 10 years in NYC that everyone who *lives in NYC* mostly agrees with and likes. There were simply too many cars and way too much traffic. It was unsustainable and congestion pricing actually worked and I hope it comes back.

@choppen5 @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk I would expect @elonmusk to be a big proponent, not only for the cost savings but for the obvious electricity potential, desperately needed in high tech times.

I give a video response to @realDonaldTrump plan to reduce threats from nuclear weapons, which I completely agree with. cc @elonmusk

@elonmusk That is literally the essence of democracy. Our government has three co-equal branches and the Court can and must be a check on the executive branch when it violates the law, especially direct violations of the Constitution.

@elonmusk Judicial review does not mean judges “run the country” it means presidents must govern within legal and constitutional boundaries. If any president could act without legal limits, we wouldn’t have democracy we’d have dictatorship.

read this letter. just read it. in any other presidency, this letter alone would trigger impeachment proceedings. this is a blatantly corrupt quid-pro-quo and the media should be covering this like watergate

@ArtemisConsort I agree that it’s hard to talk them out of it. Disagree that it’s a “rational preference”. It’s actually completely irrational because, on average, it’s nonsense.

The thing YIMBYs need to understand is that poor people are, on average, worse neighbors, which is why the middle class and rich will always fight the construction of low-income housing in their neighborhoods. You cannot talk them out of this rational preference.

In my opinion, more than 75% of every urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture program today should focus on “SPRAWL REPAIR”. The work is endless. And virtually nobody is teaching it.

something been nagging at me and I wanna cause a fuss, so here goes. Liberals/Democrats & broader left, especially but not only those involved in climate, need to be called out for over a decade of covering for Elon Musk. Elon only got rich because of “progressive” EV subsidies

@mateosfo One of your best Twitter threads in a while!

@the_transit_guy To be fair, trails are also cool. But indeed if a combo opportunity is available, that’s even better

The Austin metro should have hundreds of miles of transit. Turning train ROWs into trails in such a city is very regressive.

@jongeeting (Chicago Red/purple line is 4 track)

Below Washington Ave, South Broad is almost all zoned for single-family rowhomes! Right on top of the only 4-track subway in America outside of NYC!! There’s a ton of potential housing capacity there

South Broad Street should really become a development sink for @PhillyMayor’s 30,000 Homes initiative