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• Post #3837262

  Pedestrian Observations: Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development https://pedestrianobservations.com/2026/07/14/corridor-zoning-is-not-transit-oriented-development/

• Post #2682682

  How many of my followers a) live in or near Berlin and b) are interested in local and national rail issues?

• Post #2682681

  I don't know how to even keep the government in Popular Front :(. And people say it's easier than Social Democracy?

• Post #2682680

  About 2.5 years too late, Israel is saying it will finally allow the ICRC to visit its prisons. (Meetings with individual inmates will still be banned.) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-05-08/ty-article/.premium/israel-to-let-red-cross-visit-security-prisons-in-first-since-oct-7-attack/0000019e-06cf-d914-ab9e-deeff3110000

• Post #2682679

  There will be a Palestinian state. I don't know when, but late 2020s-early 2030s is likely. And Israel should make the day the agreement is signed a national holiday. For the Palestinians, it's liberation, but for Israelis too it's the start of something new and better.

• Post #2682678

  TIL new Hungarian minister of transport Dávid Vitézy is a Fidesz nepo baby (his late mother was a Fidesz MEP). I'm sure he'll do great with Budapest urban rail expansion (which he backs), the lack-of-ETCS scandal on the Budapest-Serbia line, etc. 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

• Post #2682677

  Fun facts I discover while looking for Polish city sizes in the 1930s: 20% of the population of the Warsaw Ghetto died of starvation even before the Final Solution deportations to the extermination camps. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/warsaw

• Post #2682676

  The German mentality toward neo-Nazis is, if they're 7% of the public then they're too insignificant to ban for anti-constitutional activities, and if they're 27% then they're too popular to ban for same.

• Post #2682675

  Cid is pushing me to stream my playing Social Democracy today (at 19:00) while commentating the game and its politics. A recording will be available of course. @autumn

• Post #2682674

  Live now, streaming the game Social Democracy and talking about the history (some rail retro-crayon may be included, no promises). https://www.twitch.tv/alon_levy

• Post #2682673

  Half of the 15 million people who immigrated to Spain in 2002-2024 have since left the country. Funcas has just released a study on Spain's long-term aging and demographic crisis. https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Estudios-de-la-fundacion-113.pdf

• Post #2682672

  What are some examples of national anthems that for historic reasons are not in the state's main language? There's Majulah Singapura and Jana Gana Mana - anything else? (Inspired by both understanding why and being mildly annoyed that Ode to Joy is in German and it's hard to find instrumental versions.)

• Post #2682671

  Very soon, incoming MIT students will want to study computational biology. #sorry

• Post #1895293

  Pedestrian Observations: Why Building Metros is Necessary for the Green Transition Away from Cars https://pedestrianobservations.com/2026/03/10/why-building-metros-is-necessary-for-the-green-transition-away-from-cars/

• Post #1854784

  in addition to my post two days ago, there's Liam Blank explaining why the RPA piece about Penn Station capacity is wrong. https://liamblank.com/rpa-penn-station-through-running/

• Post #1581381

  Prompt: AI has automated quite a lot of (but not all) math research, but at the same time AI jobs require more advanced math, increasing the demand for math B.Sc.s and B.A.s. How does this change math academia?

• Post #1483536

  Broke: Abitur is the equivalent of an American bachelor's degree Woke: a master's degree at a German university is the equivalent of an American bachelor's degree (Brought to you by my looking at some math lecture notes and course plans for Berlin universities)

• Post #982175

  Pedestrian Observations: Why High Speed 2 and Other European Lines Make Fewer Stops than the Shinkansen https://pedestrianobservations.com/2026/04/06/why-high-speed-2-and-other-european-lines-make-fewer-stops-than-the-shinkansen/

• Post #957783

  Scandinavian road and rail infrastructure projects this century have on average been on-budget. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263786325001127#cebibl1