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Jack Harman

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Infrastructure finance professional wondering why Anglosphere costs are so high

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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Looks like a couple of buildings have collapsed above some Delhi Metro tunneling work tunnellingjournal.com/dmrc-stateme...
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DMRC statement following building collapse - The Tunnelling Journal
Following the collapse of three buildings in Delhi in an influence zone of tunnelling for the Delhi Metro, the Delhi...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
*$200m* for the ponies but when [SEPTA] pleads "for sustainable funding from Harrisburg, they’re told by conservative senators that there are not enough resources to go around." -- www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Pa. needs to stop subsidizing horse racing and put that money toward transit | Opinion
Every year, casino slot machine revenue is diverted into a Race Horse Development Fund, subsidizing an expensive hobby for wealthy horse owners and breeders. It should be used to fund transit instead.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Top White House advisers signals that firing Powell maybe is not out of the question as the admin begins to probe these accusations around Fed renovations. Hassett said it would depend potentially on what Powell's answers turn up www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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Update from Tony Romm
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micah of charlohrtte @micahlohr.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🧵 We're currently building a mixed income building in Charlotte where 30% of units are financed by LIHTC. I'm starting a running list of requirements in the LIHTC units that are superior to conventional market rate apartments and thus drive up cost: 1/
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
British Rail used to call this "the sparks effect"
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Clem Tillier @ctillier.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Electrification + all-day frequency + return to office + freeway jams = Caltrain ridership ↗️
Caltrain ridership bar graph showing a strong increase in June 2025
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Every time I see Brescia mentioned somewhere, I check if they mention the automated light metro. Sadly not, this time. www.ft.com/content/af18...
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Postcard from Brescia: priests and petrolheads at the world’s ‘most beautiful’ car race
In an Italian city where cars are a religion, the start of the annual Mille Miglia is a spectacle not to be missed
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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This is his time.
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
My extremely Trumpy in-laws love Fetterman. This kind of thing is a great way to get re-elected in a purple state! Sorry, but it's true.
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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 11/07/2025
I am certainly intrigued, since I haven't seen any signs of them installing validators at rail stations for pay-as-you-go. But it looks like FAREPAY cards can hold *tickets* as well as value, so maybe you can buy/load e-tickets onto your card, and when the conductor scans it they take an e-ticket?
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/
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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I’m proud of what we've accomplished. Our “Paris-style” reforms made headlines, from The Economist to The Daily Show. Some said for the first time they have real hope they can stay in the city they love But big wins come with big pushback and a tough re-election Help me raise the $50k I need to win
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
100% agree with this, rigid, poorly-designed procurement rules are a big part of the problem with getting stuff done
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Funny thing is that the UK has one of the lowest rates of fluoridation in the developed world
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🥑🗽🏗 Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com · 11/07/2025
All you need to know about the importance of air conditioning for climate change summers via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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Megan Cassella @megancnbc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
News here: Trump says he’s considering raising the blanket tariff on nearly all imports, currently set at 10%, another 5 or 10 percentage points, @NBCNews reports.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Update: lmfao
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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Positive China Shock in Ethiopia: Chinese imports post 2001 caused manufacturing employment (across all industries) to rise by ~5% because cheaper imported inputs (machines, chemicals, metal products, etc.) with no domestic substitutes increased firm productivity & capacity utilisation
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Wimbledon's ambitions to expand are being tested in the High Court. The legal arguments are a proxy-fight. The real battle is over visions of the contest: a leading player in the global sports market, or remaining merely 'tennis in an English garden'." www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Has there been any reporting of what happened to the men rendered to South Sudan? Are they being imprisoned there?
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Murky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Apologies as the site is down again. I'm only still persevering with this hosting company as spent so many hundreds on them - but it's at a sunk cost fallacy point now. Anyone know any good - and affordable - hosts?
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 09/07/2025
NYC union tries to hire union labor to renovate a building, and gets an object lesson in why almost the entire private NYC development sector has run away from union construction labor www.local802afm.org/allegro/arti... (link via @jacobgarchik.bsky.social, but don’t blame him for my scab spin)
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I took a family trip to Paso Robles on Amtrak's Coast Starlight route in May. On the way home, I tracked its running speed via Strava, which you can see visualized here. There are some fast parts between Gilroy and SJ, but you lose a *lot* of time in the deep East Bay.
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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I appreciate how this video ties in transit capital financing with design decisions. "Finish in 2040 vs 2055" - i.e. in many citizens' lifetimes or not - should be a choice given more weight alongside "more construction street disruption or less."
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
WMATA is steadily closing in on officially becoming the 2nd-largest US transit agency and might be able to achieve it this year—in fact, it's already had higher ridership than Chicago's CTA or LA Metro over the last three months
a graph of rolling 12M ridership totals for major US transit agencies, showing WMATA gaining on the CTA and LA Metro at about 300M riders a year
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Literally
“Some sadsack dorkbag raising the flag in downtown America like we conquered it” photo taken 7/7 at MacArthur park in dtla
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 07/07/2025
If anybody lives in Emily Gallagher’s assembly district and wants to write her policy director an email and ask her to please not burden the G train with more costs, she’s Hanna Johnson at johnsonh@nyassembly.gov
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This is extremely funny and dumb, but scary if looked at through @bretdevereaux.bsky.social 's concept of the US civil-military bargain, in which the military has historically agreed to stay out of politics in return for politicians not trying to draw them in acoup.blog/2025/07/04/c...
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in t…
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
guys I'm fucking dying over here
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“Salvadoran officials have said for the first time that more than 130 Venezuelan migrants who have been detained for months in a megaprison in El Salvador remain under the responsibility of the United States, according to a court document filed Monday.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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El Salvador says for first time that U.S. controls fate of jailed deportees
Salvadoran officials have acknowledged that more than 130 Venezuelan migrants at a megaprison in El Salvador remain under U.S. responsibility, contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that it l...
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As we discussed once with @stephenjacobsmith.com , a cool way to start investigating different technical approaches between US/CAN and RoW would be to just pay a bunch of NA engineers/designers to walk around a European, Asian etc. construction site for a week and freely comment what they see.
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As with almost everything, the UK is right between France and the US
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
My daughter asked my wife to draw the King (she's obsessed with Zadok the Priest), and my wife drew the Burger King. Is this harassment based on national origin?
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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
We've got the battery specifications for the UK class 756 tri mode FLIRTs released a few months back 559kwh on the 4 car while its 447kwh on the 3 car. They are LTO cells from ABB Total output is 1.3MW but I don't see anything clarifying if that includes the single 500kw genset
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi. Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Received a survey from the NOAA that I usually would have ignored, but did my civic duty because response rates are low
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 06/07/2025
“[NWS’s San Antonio office] warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the [Trump admin’s] early retirement package…at both [NWS] offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January…” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
"NEAR THE NETZARIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip —  What does it take to get food today in Gaza? It involves a perilous journey that I took myself." -- www.npr.org/2025/07/06/g...
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Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
conservative christians have babylon, nazis had degenerate berlin, antisemitic dirtbag leftists have tel aviv. liberals need to develop our own city that is the sum of all worldly sins. i propose dubai
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This caption about the Port Authority’s bus terminal was written in 1966.
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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Since transit twitter has moved here. A friend forwarded this onto me. Have a good idea? 2k to write about it! ifp.org/call-for-pro...
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Call for Proposals: The Transit Policy Playbook | IFP
It costs New York City more than eight times as much to build a mile of subway as Paris — and more than twice as much as Madrid. New York isn’t alone —
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Some good stuff in here, though I think it could be more radical. One insane thing about UK government funded projects which I didn't realise until recently is that their budgets are annual! An incredibly bad idea.
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I suspect the highlighted section is a huge part of this
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Anyone know what Caltrain spent on its electrification EIS? My memory says like $50m but I cannot find the amount anywhere
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Murky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Well I'm skint. Rent has cleaned me out. Support the site which helps me pay the bills (barely any more) here ko-fi.com/fromthemurky...
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Jack Harman @jackharman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Transport Infrastructure Ireland seems to be putting together a plan to massively expand Dublin's Luas tram lines. Will be interesting to see what they come up with. @ryukyu-hsr.bsky.social @princetonyimby.bsky.social may be interested irishcycle.com/wp-content/u...
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
- phased implementation - thru running - bidirectional, off-peak service - timetable - integrated bus transfers and fares
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."
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