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Chase Tralka

@chasetralka.com

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Flight Instructor • Amateur Urbanist Cyclist • Skier • Saxophonist • Jazz Listener • Oxford Comma User Penn Stater • GW C̶o̶l̶o̶n̶i̶a̶l̶ Revolutionary

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 02/12/2025

The structure of this survey is they just show you things in a list and you give a thumbs up/down or not heard of answer. Not exactly the most rigorous investigation into people’s opinions of these characters.

YouGov survey example showing Gwen Stefani with rating options red thumbs down, orange thumbs down, yellow neutral, light green thumbs up, dark green thumbs up, or Not heard of options.

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 13/02/2025

Center City Philly is another good option (perhaps between Spring Garden and South Streets) but I worry that the regional rail component of SEPTA's operations isn't robust enough currently to be viable at present (classic chicken-egg problem).

Map of Center City Philadelphia with proposed congestion relief zone boundaries of Spring Garden Street to the north and South street to the south, with the Schuykill and Delaware Rivers as boundaries to the west and east, respectively.

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 13/02/2025

Boston is a bit trickier on the southwest side. I'd like to see Back Bay included in the zone, but including the South End is probably not necessary. So there are three options that I see. Dark blue as the most expansive, teal to include Back Bay, and pink as perhaps as phase 1 with room to grow.

Map of central Boston with proposed options for Congestion Relief Zone boundaries.

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 03/02/2025

Got to pilot a small plane around Manhattan last Thursday night. It was incredible.

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 03/02/2025

Can you spot the train station for a city of 2.3 million people?

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 01/02/2025

Don't threaten me with a good time, Linda.

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 01/02/2025

Such a fun evening bringing together so much of the NYC Urbanist community to hear @thewaroncars.bsky.social and @nerd4cities.bsky.social at Hunter College

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 30/01/2025

I made a quick map for my non-avgeek friends. It seems to me, after reviewing ATC audio and ADS-B data, that the helicopter pilots (green) were expecting a plane to be landing on 01 (blue path) and looking out the right side of the cockpit, rather than it coming from the left on the purple path.

Map showing the flight paths of AA 5342 and army UH-60 approaching DCA airport, as well as the standard landing approach path.

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 01/01/2025

I didn’t boil it, but hopefully my fellow PSU alums will forgive me.

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Chase Tralka @chasetralka.com · 31/12/2024

On a recent @thewaroncars.bsky.social episode, they discussed a survey that questioned appropriate punishments for drivers convicted of traffic violence. Respondents were more approving of jail time than impounding the driver's vehicle. This was interesting to me so I decided to run my own poll.