Toll roads are spreading in America
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/12/18/toll-roads-are-spreading-in-america
#HackerNews #TollRoads #America #Infrastructure #Transportation #Economics #Mobility
Chewie
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"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."
https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/
Andres
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"...Hale, an avid city cyclist, has personally painted 14 crosswalks since May, including one at the intersection of South New Hampshire Avenue and 4th Street where a 9-year-old boy was hit and killed.
"I think we want a city that responds to the needs of its people in that sense and prioritizes these things as the way forward," said Hale. "I don't feel L.A. is doing that effectively."..."
#BikeTooter #crosswalks #sidewalks #pedestrians #infrastructure #protests #CivilDisobedience
German rail transport is now among the worst in Europe. How did it come to this?
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/g-s1-100794/germany-train-rail-deutsche-bahn
I remember my first time in Europe more than 20 years ago, when I was still doing research in physics. Back then, researchers from other countries praised German trains, prices aside.
Does anyone here have insight into what went wrong?
#Germany #Transport #Mobility #Infrastructure #RailChaos #RailTransport #Europe
hauschke
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the Dutch Research Council (NWO) invests 35 Meuro in #openscience #infrastructure: https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-projects-strengthen-dutch-open-science-infrastructure
the Dutch Research Council (NWO) invests 35 Meuro in #openscience #infrastructure: https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-projects-strengthen-dutch-open-science-infrastructure
"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."
https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/
David Clubb
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The #UK faces strategic crisis. After decades of neglect of crucial #infrastructure, it now even lacks capacity to monitor the decline.
In this case, dangerous deterioration of a major road bridge was unnoticed for 15 years. #Austerity since the 2008 crash has left local authorities short of skilled technical staff to evaluate infrastructure.
#UKpol has given itself a form of institutional #DunningKruger Syndrome: it has destroyed its own awareness of its failings.
The #UK faces strategic crisis. After decades of neglect of crucial #infrastructure, it now even lacks capacity to monitor the decline.
In this case, dangerous deterioration of a major road bridge was unnoticed for 15 years. #Austerity since the 2008 crash has left local authorities short of skilled technical staff to evaluate infrastructure.
#UKpol has given itself a form of institutional #DunningKruger Syndrome: it has destroyed its own awareness of its failings.
AG Campbell Secures Court Victory Preventing Trump Administration From Unlawfully Cutting Billions In Disaster Preparedness Funding https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-secures-court-victory-preventing-trump-administration-from-unlawfully-cutting-billions-in-disaster-preparedness-funding
@heidilifeldman This is good to hear, but it won't help that FEMA fired or reassigned all the staff writing on BRIC projects. All the allocated funding has been 'deobligated' and returned to Treasury accounts.
The states still have staff that can manage the grants from the recipient side, but the bureaucracy to implement the program is long gone.
#FEMA #BRIC #DisasterMitigation #Infrastructure #Preparedness
After 27 years within budget Austria open 6thlongest railway tunnel in the world
#HackerNews #Austria #Railway #Tunnel #Koralmtunnel #Infrastructure #Longest #Tunnel
Bjørnar (he/him)
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If you could build a #tunnel, you could cut travel time between #Bergen and #Stavanger (2nd and 3rd most populous cities in #Norway) by 40 minutes
Problem: it would be the longest and deepest undersea road tunnel ever
Well, Norway's building it
27 km long (17 miles), 392 m deep (1,286 feet)
It's called #Rogaland fastforbindelse: Rogaland Fixed Link
#Construction started 2018. Estimated completion 2033
Cost? About $2.4 billion (?!)
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/norway-longest-deepest-underwater-tunnel-spc
Michael Dexter
and 1 other
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How to Support FreeBSD on Your Cloud
A recent post from Colin Percival outlines practical steps and considerations that can help cloud providers deliver a smooth FreeBSD experience.
Some of the areas highlighted include image publishing workflows, testing practices, and establishing communication channels that make it easier to surface issues and share updates.
Read the full post: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-11-08-How-to-support-FreeBSD-on-your-cloud.html
#FreeBSD #Cloud #OpenSource #Infrastructure #FreeBSDCommunity
The future of Terraform CDK
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
#HackerNews #Terraform #CDK #Future #Infrastructure #as #Code #Cloud #Computing #DevOps
ABC7: Man paints crosswalks in Westwood to make them safer, LAPD arrests him for vandalism
https://abc7.com/post/man-paints-crosswalks-westwood-make-safer-lapd-arrests-vandalism/18266482/
"...Hale, an avid city cyclist, has personally painted 14 crosswalks since May, including one at the intersection of South New Hampshire Avenue and 4th Street where a 9-year-old boy was hit and killed.
"I think we want a city that responds to the needs of its people in that sense and prioritizes these things as the way forward," said Hale. "I don't feel L.A. is doing that effectively."..."
#BikeTooter #crosswalks #sidewalks #pedestrians #infrastructure #protests #CivilDisobedience
If you could build a #tunnel, you could cut travel time between #Bergen and #Stavanger (2nd and 3rd most populous cities in #Norway) by 40 minutes
Problem: it would be the longest and deepest undersea road tunnel ever
Well, Norway's building it
27 km long (17 miles), 392 m deep (1,286 feet)
It's called #Rogaland fastforbindelse: Rogaland Fixed Link
#Construction started 2018. Estimated completion 2033
Cost? About $2.4 billion (?!)
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/norway-longest-deepest-underwater-tunnel-spc
How to Support FreeBSD on Your Cloud
A recent post from Colin Percival outlines practical steps and considerations that can help cloud providers deliver a smooth FreeBSD experience.
Some of the areas highlighted include image publishing workflows, testing practices, and establishing communication channels that make it easier to surface issues and share updates.
Read the full post: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-11-08-How-to-support-FreeBSD-on-your-cloud.html
#FreeBSD #Cloud #OpenSource #Infrastructure #FreeBSDCommunity
The Rush at Oxford Circus
At the end of a day of street photography we took the train back to Liverpool Street Station from Oxford Circus. That of course calls for the obligatory long exposure shot of the train coming into the station.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 800 |
| Shutter speed | 1/8s |
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#2025 #BritishTransport #cityPhotography #Commuting #infrastructure #London #LondonUnderground #motionBlur #motionPhotography #OxfordCircus #passengers #Photo #Photography #platform #publicTransport #railway #SonyA7RV #station #StreetPhotography #subway #transport #travelPhotography #Tube #undergroundRailway #UnitedKingdom #urbanTransport
#EU wants to pump billions into 10 huge #AI data centers, so that "we can catch up with US and China". All purely driven by market forces, "stay competitive", not to provide basic services for its citizens.
The internet still is a Wild West. It's weird how gov dropped the ball in providing us with #infrastructure, where offline they do provide the electrical grid, roads, bridges, etc. in well-organized fashion. Gov should have provided the search infrastructure of the web, in a similar fashion.