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[John]

but you still have the issue of the bridge not being at the end of life to contend with.

[atl_transplant]

Yes but realistically speaking by the time this even happened it’d probably be close

[John]

in a few decade I suppose.

[Francisco]

This isn’t a normal street. This is a highway overpass bridge in Columbus, Ohio.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/project_profiles/oh_cap_union_station.aspx

This is what we should consider for some urban connectors instead of just pedestrian bridges. Not only does it reduce traffic noise in the area but gives the city a lot more useable space for activities and shopping. Plus regular bridges just have one purpose, to get from one point to the other. But 440 is huge so a pedestrian bridge would not be useful for everything but exercise.

[John]

Fortunately for Raleigh, we don’t have a freeway plowing through our city center.

[Nickster]

Another clip from one of my favorite YouTube Channels… I’m 100% for bringing back the neighborhood corner store. Love that I can walk to shopping from my house, but as mentioned in this video, giving more direct access to the neighborhood rather than only focusing on access to the main road (Creedmoor Road in my case) would make walking from the neighborhood a much more welcome experience.

Every neighborhood should have a corner store—but can't

[ahops0428]

Greensboro/Triad/NC Manufacturing has been on fire this week. Don’t think I saw anyone post this one yet. Looks like Boom Supersonic, a supersonic jet manufacturer, is going to open up a manufacturing facility at the PTI airport in Greensboro. Here’s the N&O article for reference.

One of Boom Supersonic’s other planes, the XB-1, was on Time’s 100 Best Inventions List for 2021. The Greensboro facility will be building the Overture, which is supposed to be a Concorde-like passenger plane.

[John]

There’s been a lot of great news for the Triad lately and that’s good news for the entire state. With the Triangle growing with STEM, and Charlotte with Finance/Business, having the Triad growing with advanced manufacturing really rounds out the economy of the state.

[Deekay93]

Boom is gonna be revolutionary for the airline industry. New York to London in 3.5hrs instead of 6.5hrs. I know United airlines already has a decent sized order with them. Pretty cool the state of NC will be manufacturing these planes.

[pBeez]

The N&O story mentioned United had ordered a mess too. 30 I believe. I read it several hours ago, lol.

[ahops0428]

I hope it is too and is not some ‘for rich people only’ luxury travel experience like the Concorde. If they can iron out all the future problems when this is rolled out, scale up for more than 80 ish people per flight, then they have definitely the blue print to revolutionize air travel. I don’t think I’ve heard of any of airline company going ‘carbon neutral’ like they claim to be aiming for either.

Getting to Europe from the US, and not taking a majority of a day, would be game changing. I used to live in Spain for a bit and made the Madrid → Atlanta flight a handful of times. Something that could chop that 10 hour flight in half sounds very appealing.

[pBeez]

They mention this exact thing, hoping for $100 flights, but expecting business class fairs, so far more affordable than the Concord.

[ahops0428]

I hope they can make it work as I would have to believe it when I see it. Either way, pretty cool the state the Wright Brothers flew in can now help build tomorrow’s planes.

[Kanatenah]

$100 flights.

[oakcityyimby]

Norwegian Airlines was making absurdly cheap transatlantic prices work for a bit pre-covid. I miss those days…

[atl_transplant]

Down it ATL headed to the Hawks game… this has got to be one of the longest escalators in the world.
This is the Marta Peachtree Center station. Heart of some of the oldest parts Downtown Atlanta. I believe the track is about 130’ sub grade at this station. Deepest point in the Marta system.

[Deekay93]

Those long escalators are crazy. That one in Atlanta definitely is up there. There’s one in DC that goes down 230’, think that one may be the longest in the US. It’s pretty intimidating to ride them haha!

[John]

I’ve been on that thing many times. It can really freak you out if you have balance issues.

[atl_transplant]

For me it was only freaky because I was the only one in sight

[scotchman]

The escalators from the new station under Grand Central in NY will be longest when finally opened. The whole East Side connector is many years behind and around 3X original cost. About normal for NE US projects.