That’s pretty incredible. I’ve never seen that before. I’m down for a tower like that in DTR haha.
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If they want to add this to the Holiday Inn, I’ll switch to the camp that wants to keep it!
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I like your thinking 
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This is very cool - Google is restoring one of the largest freestanding structures on earth in Mountain View, CA: Google Starts Renovation for Hangar One in Moffett Field, Mountain View - San Francisco YIMBY
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Cool indeed. I used to visit there as a kid for air shows and scouting field trips. It’s massive.
Wonder if @John has been there?
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Yes. I too visited that hangar and remember the blimps!
Going there was a rite of passage for south bay kids it seems.
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So I just landed at RDU from a flight from O’Hare and after being able to hop onto the Blue Line from downtown Chicago and take it all the way to the airport, man do I feel spoiled when faced with the sparse public transit options to get home from RDU of an infrequently running bus, a Lyft, or a roommate who falls through lol (I left my car at home.)
Wild how the amenities that add to a quality of life/standard of living is so relative depending on where you live.
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It’s intangibles like this that make public transit a hard sell. How do you quantify the value of not having to park at the airport, or get a ride / Uber, etc?
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I like taking a Lyft from the airport. It’s super easy and like 15 bucks to my house.
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There was a period where it was dicey if you could find one under $50 to downtown but it thankfully seems to have swung back to being around $30 again.
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very cool. but, aren’t all buildings “freestanding”?
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I ran a half marathon in Denver yesterday (State #26). From my observations being out in Denver for a few days, and trekking up to Boulder as well, the bicycle infrastructure out there was incredible. My friend said he could bike from his house in Denver all the way to Boulder on greenways. There were bikers everywhere. It was incredible.
Another observation I had was how open the landscape is out on the upper plains. I have heard people who move to Raleigh talk about feeling claustrophobic because of all of the trees. It never really registered with me until this weekend. (I had spent 2 months out west back in college, but the openness of the area really hit home this weekend) IMO, I like the trees and greenery we have here. The one thing I didn’t miss was the humidity. haha, but we all know we just have to embrace that here. LOL
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Denver/boulder is a cycling Mecca, which is kind of odd considering the winters there. The area is home to the US Olympic cycling center and, I think, the sanctioning body for professional cycling in the US. Fun Fact: The reason Olympic cycling is based there (and pro cyclists in general) is that its helpful to train at altitude, because it boosts your blood oxygen level. It’s like legal blood doping.
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Let me tell you, training for a half marathon in Raleigh (350 ft) then running at altitude kinda kicked my butt yesterday. I finished under my own power, but it was rough for a bit. haha. On the other hand, my friend that lives there had no issues with the elevation and left me in the dust.
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It makes a huge difference! I’ve been to Vail a couple of times, and just walking up a flight of stairs at 10k ft is tough. I once trained for a 100 mile ride around Lake Tahoe (base elev is 5k ft) with climbs up to 7k ft.). It’s nearly impossible to condition yourself for altitude like that without actually being at that altitude.
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In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles Marohn, he talks about Lyft/Uber as subsidized by the driver and the ignorance of car ownership expense. His conclusion is that rideshare is probably going to become more expensive in future and thus not be as popular/viable. Essentially, people don’t factor in all the costs of owning, insuring, and maintaining a car when calculating their “profit” from ridesharing. It’s an interesting analysis:
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The front range doesn’t get as much snow as you would think. Definitely some cold winters, but not the level of precipitation 1 hour west into the mountains will get.
Every time we bring a newcomer on a ski trip to CO we constantly harp the altitude and the importance of chugging water. Especially if we stay on location at one of the resorts and don’t get any reprieve from the altitude by driving back down to Denver. Seems like every year or so someone has to leave due to altitude sickness. 4 of the top 10 highest ski resorts in the world are in Colorado alone
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San Francisco’s new BRT line getting good reviews from SF residents.
Approved in 2013 and just started service!
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Makin’ buses sexy, a decade at a time!!! Van Ness has been quite the project.
20% average increases in speed / efficiency is nothing to snark about.
Raleigh’s experiment (and learnings…) can’t come soon enough.
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I rode this just last week and i can vouch for it being pretty awesome!
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