u/AstroG4

I hate this so much.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nuR6aiYYz4qaqqL38?g_st=ic

From how faded the sign is, I imagine it’s quite old. Yet, excusing the britishisms (what is the pink and why do I want to feel in it?), it’s quite evergreen and pertinent.

How else are we supposed to get more affordable housing for knights and their squires?

You can tell by the two missing doors on the end units. And the award for pedantic rivet-counting goes to…

I enjoy visiting World Federation of Great Towers members, so, being in the area, naturally the Spinnaker was on my list. However, the elevator was out of order and I had only one day in town, so I had no choice but to walk up the 100m staircase. Quite a unique experience, and, of course, I absolutely was thinking of Silo the whole time, winding up a seemingly endless staircase in a confined concrete cylinder. If I had known of the defect, I wouldn’t have brought my 30kg travel backpack. I felt like a porter!

The elevator is broken, so people are walking up the 100 meter stairwell.

r/traaaaaaainnnnnnnnn?

Someone at Stadler HQ must’ve mixed up the blueprints.

Some of you may remember our efforts over the past few years with the Centre County Highway Revolt (project video here) to bring rail service to Penn State not only for intercity travel but also local commuting. In the shortest summary possible: existing government-owned tracks to within two miles of campus and historic settlement patterns clustering walkable housing around these rail alignments make shortline rail service from Altoona and Tyrone to Bellefonte and State College not only viable, but a low-subsidy, high-economic-impact, and tantalizingly possible transportation project.

Well, as it so happens, we're apparently not the only ones who think that way! The Centre County Metropolitan Planning Organization (CCMPO) has started a rail access study, beginning with a month-long public comment period until August 17th. Please visit their project webpage and fill out their survey in favor of providing environmentally-friendly car-free transportation to Centre County!

Remember! A single DMU gets the same gas mileage as a large SUV, but can carry over 200 people; DMUs are forward-compatible with electrification and produce significantly less particulate pollution than roads; train tracks take a fraction of the space and material cost of a highway; according to PA's own published budgets, a mile of rail is cheaper to both build and maintain than a mile of rail; and research shows that any dollar spent on rail has a much higher economic benefit than were it spent on roads. A project like this is important for everything from climate change to preserving rural agriculture and forests; improving cost of living and benefitting small town economies and heritage; and even reducing tax burden and improving local tourism! And, with what the SCAC highway is costing now, I think you could even build a high-speed rail tunnel from State College to Tyrone and still come in under the budget of one measly 8-mile open-air car sewer. So please, fill out the CCMPO's survey!!!!