Jack Harman
@jackharman.bsky.social
Infrastructure finance professional wondering why Anglosphere costs are so high
Looks like a couple of buildings have collapsed above some Delhi Metro tunneling work
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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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July 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Looks like a couple of buildings have collapsed above some Delhi Metro tunneling work
tunnellingjournal.com/dmrc-stateme...
tunnellingjournal.com/dmrc-stateme...
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*$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...
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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July 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
*$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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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...
Update from Tony Romm
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July 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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🧵 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/
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/
July 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🧵 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/
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/
British Rail used to call this "the sparks effect"
Electrification + all-day frequency + return to office + freeway jams = Caltrain ridership ↗️
July 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
British Rail used to call this "the sparks effect"
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Electrification + all-day frequency + return to office + freeway jams = Caltrain ridership ↗️
July 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Electrification + all-day frequency + return to office + freeway jams = Caltrain ridership ↗️
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...
www.ft.com/content/af18...
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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July 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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...
www.ft.com/content/af18...
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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.
Fetterman on Fox on Mamdani: "He's a socialist. He's not, I guess, a technical Democrat."
July 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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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?
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?
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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?
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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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/
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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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
But big wins come with big pushback and a tough re-election Help me raise the $50k I need to win
July 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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
But big wins come with big pushback and a tough re-election Help me raise the $50k I need to win
100% agree with this, rigid, poorly-designed procurement rules are a big part of the problem with getting stuff done
Said it before - procurement teams across government are being treated like unreproachable Gods and it's absolutely ruining multiple policy areas because they'd don't know what they're doing.
This is *mental*. The TeachFirst brand is worth a vast sum. And DfE proposes to torch all that? Lunatics.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
July 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
100% agree with this, rigid, poorly-designed procurement rules are a big part of the problem with getting stuff done
Funny thing is that the UK has one of the lowest rates of fluoridation in the developed world
July 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Funny thing is that the UK has one of the lowest rates of fluoridation in the developed world
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All you need to know about the importance of air conditioning for climate change summers via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
All you need to know about the importance of air conditioning for climate change summers via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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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.
July 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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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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
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
July 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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
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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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...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
July 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Has there been any reporting of what happened to the men rendered to South Sudan? Are they being imprisoned there?
July 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Has there been any reporting of what happened to the men rendered to South Sudan? Are they being imprisoned there?
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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?
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?
July 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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?
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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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)
July 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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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.
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.
July 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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.
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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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."
July 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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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
July 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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