Reposted by alex block ⚽️Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 21hFigure-ground maps are always helpful for getting a sense of what cities felt like. You can see how small Old Downtown DC is and also how empty the area west of the White House. This map is dated 1923, but I the base survey is prewar, 1916 or so. 3143
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 23hAnother reason why Air Crash Investigations is a great show; valorizing the fact-based competence of the NTSB and their peer agencies around the world. 060
Reposted by alex block ⚽️ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social 304984745
Reposted by alex block ⚽️Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not only should engineers study history, more historians should study engineering. Concrete is the second most used material on earth, a huge part of every economy, but there are about 10 english language academic histories of it. Is it really less important than another take on Lincoln? 🗃️ 2622331
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There’s the alt history take where Penn State joins (and stabilizes) the Big East; a playoff emerges earlier; and all this realignment nonsense never happens. 120
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nonrefundable deposits for reservations seem like the obvious solution here… But social acceptance of that practice will probably lag the technology… 130
Reposted by alex block ⚽️every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026OCONOMOWOC: 38 S MAIN ST, OCONOMOWOC WI 53066-9998 082
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’m a big fan to finding more ways to use elevated rail… but! Probably not through downtown. And this doesn’t seem to account for very real constraints on ROWs, grades, curves, etc. Tunnels let you sometimes work around hills and buildings - elevated rail does not. 100
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just reading though this now; seems like a very solid plan to invest in squeezing service from Septa’s impressive assets 080
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026These articles never seem to even acknowledge what they are advocating for would create a two-tiered system for any city with a productive rail system. How is a free bus with a paid subway a good outcome? 3173
Reposted by alex block ⚽️Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Rotterdam Centraal my beloved kapsalon station 2134
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Gonna plug Utrecht Centraal here, particularly for how a station and the infrastructure can evolve over time 1181
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 20/09/202630th street is hard to beat. The planning and infrastructure is extremely impressive, and the architecture doesn’t disappoint either. 030
Reposted by alex block ⚽️Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 17/09/2026This is peak brutalism, peak metro, and peak America, all in one perfect station. Sorry, this is fact. 66215
Reposted by alex block ⚽️every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026MEKINOCK: 150 MAIN ST, MEKINOCK ND 58258-9998 0132
Reposted by alex block ⚽️Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Your 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral) 2787080
Reposted by alex block ⚽️Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Jesus Christ they killed this kid 361495326
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The heat is one thing… when are we gonna get rid of these 70+° dewpoints? 180
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The way Noah Eagle is saying “Melbourne” (Mel-bunn) is driving me a little nuts… Imagining Jim Nantz or someone talking about Bahstan, or some other equivalent 020
Reposted by alex block ⚽️Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 09/09/2026D288,946 - issued to Paramount Pictures in 1987 for a design for a "toy spaceship." #DesignPatents 3225
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is amazing. Also need to plug the excellent “Catching the Codfather” podcast from @iancoss.bsky.social www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the...wgbh.orgCatching The CodfatherA fishing tycoon is arrested in an elaborate sting operation, but claims he’s the real hero fighting back against an overbearing Massachusetts. So who is Carlos “The Codfather” Rafael really – a folk ... 021
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Years ago, they started with “virtual staging” by adding fake furniture to photos of empty rooms…. But actually suggesting renovations seems a bridge too far 131
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026You can’t try to be shinier than ND; it just doesn’t work. 000
Reposted by alex block ⚽️Lewis Lehe @lewislehe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026since fleet avs have fixed costs ( HD maps, depots), they are similar to “natural monopolies” like streetcars and power. i expect to see subsidies for semi-rural areas to “get connected.” similar to the Dial a ride and “flex route” transit we have now 041
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It’s a tremendous loss. The current design was actually a great combination of improved security and public space (that the south side of the WH on the ellipse has never managed, still covered with jersey barriers) 080
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20? 150
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Huh. MARC is running one single train from the Brunswick line in the morning, skipping Union Station, then running to Camden station in Baltimore… with a single reverse trip in the evening. www.mta.maryland.gov/Brunswick-Ca...mta.maryland.govMARC Schedule Change and New Through Service: Brunswick & Camden Lines | Maryland Transit Administration 3111
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So much of our knowledge of the impacts of heat and humidity on the body during physical exertion (and the development of specific metrics and mitigations) comes from the military itself in the 1950s, because of heat stroke etc in basic training… 030
alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In Fairfax county, adaptive reuse of the Tysons Sheraton is out, in favor of townhomes: www.ffxnow.com/2026/09/01/h...ffxnow.comHousing developer seeks to demolish Sheraton Tysons Hotel instead of converting it | FFXnowPrevious Image 1/2 Next Image The owner of the vacant Sheraton Tysons Hotel is rethinking its plans for the property, which has been sitting untouched more than two years after Fairfax County leaders ... 261
