If you work in transportation tech, you should paint this on the walls of your office: “It’s About Space. Technology Never Changes Geometry” - #SUMC18
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Jace Deloney
@JaceDeloney
Marketplace Pricing PM | Previous PM | Co-founder | Fmr Chair of Austin Urban Transportation Commission
Born April 29, 1986Joined March 2009
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Austin will become the largest city outside of California to eliminate parking minimum requirements.
Austin City council just passed ’s resolution on consent and will move to the implementation phase. Huge day for Austin’s built and natural environment!!!
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This album is amazing, give it a shot
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One week remains to tell ATP what you think about five light-rail options offered as part of Project Connect.
Each option includes ridership estimates. But the data used to calculate those estimates has been withheld from the public despite repeated pleas from elected officials.
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ATP is now DENYING my request to get data inputs for their ridership model. They’re asking Paxton for permission to give me nothing. ATP claims CAMPO’s data is “proprietary” (?). Here’s their letter to me:
drive.google.com/file/d/1MAZndo
Let me explain how problematic this is… 1/2
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Finally cleaned all of the dust off of me from a trip to Big Bend last weekend
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TIL Google is finally building an accessible Place Autocomplete Widget
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I have huge respect for the people who even attempt let alone make bikeshares work in bike-hostile US cities.
Unit economics suggest keeping the systems smallish near the peak rides/vehicle, but the politics & maybe public welfare leans toward more coverage & increasing prices.
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Lyft's financial troubles got me worried about the future of their near-monopoly on U.S. bike share systems — especially after the company shut down Minneapolis's bike share last month curbed.com/2023/04/lyft-b
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The Texas Triangle , between Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, contains 75% of Texans.
Why?
What's special about that triangle?
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My new hobby is taking graphs of economic data over time and indicating the year that Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, in case people find that helpful or informative.
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In the near future, the main purpose of propaganda will be to poison the training sets for the chatbots we depend on to explain everything to us.
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Interesting. Chat GPT struggles a bit with human rights questions, qualifying answers with a "both sides" context. CC: @hrw and @amnestyusa. Question: Is Russia the bad guy in the war against Ukraine?Show this thread
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Last week, the Austin City Council quietly added (back) thousands of potential homes to the City's neighborhoods through a resolution sponsored by to allow "small lot amnesty" on previously combined lots. More walkable and livable neighborhoods on the way...
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When you make a mistake with land use, it will take literally centuries to fix.
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Looks like Mission San Jose
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We build the envelope first out of masonry, then come back with floors, framing, roof, etc. Lots of people ask us about mechanicals. Pretty simple. Floor plugs around perimeter, open web trusses for 2nd story floor for mechanicals, and rest of electric/plumbing run through…
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Watch these popsicle sticks
Potential or stored energy in the motionless weaved sticks is released and turned to kinetic energy when a catalyst is applied
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Fossil-fuel friendly Texas has been walloping tree-hugging California in #solar growth and will soon overtake it for total utility-scale solar capacity👇
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Sometime in May, those cowboys in Texas are expected to have officially added more utility-scale solar to their electric grid than the hippies in California have added to theirs, ending the Golden State’s perennial lead in this contest. @CanaryMediaInc canarymedia.com/articles/solar
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Forgot to post this earlier while I was waiting on a ride to the Orlando Airport, but I really enjoyed the live tracking feature on the iPhone Lock Screen.
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Went down a rabbit hole for cross-industry innovations (when one industry borrows from another).
Here are 8 gems.
1. James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust.
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UFO reports across the globe from 1906 to 2014, From: reddit.com/r/interestinga
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The Great Depression turned an entire generation into frugal misers
The pandemic turned us all into raging spenders
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I showed my students this movie of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe and you should see it too.
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What a day. Went to San Antonio to see my friends play then made it back to the Heinen Hilltop Hideaway
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