stevietopsiders

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   by stevietopsiders 7y ago

   I think ORD is for Uber Freight, which is closer to profitability.
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   by stevietopsiders 7y ago

   A criticism of this "model" is that building a ridesharing app and cloud backend is now not that hard. So some developers with VC money can develop an app, launch in a city, and force Uber to cut prices, because people will be hap
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   by stevietopsiders 8y ago

   Sevilla, Spain is the poster-child of rapidly building out a bike network[0], and with the political will, that could be replicated elsewhere (especially somewhere flat and sunny like LA). Another easy way to improve transit is paint dedic
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   by stevietopsiders 8y ago

   Big slap in the face to the other cities filing bids. They also made attractive offers, but Amazon wasn't interested in them, just in wringing tax breaks out of NYC.
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   by stevietopsiders 8y ago

   Either NYT or WSJ (I forget) had some analysis for this after some of the fires. One of the cited reasons was that municipalities are fine building into sensitive areas, because it increases their tax base while the state shoulders the cos