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the one square foot of dirt and cigarette butts with a dead tree sticking out of it is probably adequate drainage for a city yup
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Nov 18, 2016 05:55
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just run all the storm lines right to that one 5'x10' patch of land over there for drainage
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Nov 18, 2016 06:53
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10ft trees surrounded by badly manicured bushes are my favourite way to shelter from the elements
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Nov 18, 2016 07:59
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remove nonfreight rails, add greenspace and drainage
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Nov 18, 2016 12:52
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could we get a bit more hyperbole, i think this page is a bit too subtle.
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Nov 18, 2016 15:14
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blugu64 posted:remove nonfreight rails, add greenspace and drainage 
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Nov 18, 2016 15:24
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Shaggar posted:then enjoy waiting 30 minutes in the sleet and rain I guess. I ride bikes
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Nov 18, 2016 15:50
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blugu64 posted:remove nonfreight rails, add greenspace and drainage rail is already highly permeable it's a six foot gravel bed for gently caress's sake
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Nov 18, 2016 15:51
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plz dont quote that alt-shaggar guy
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Nov 18, 2016 17:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE
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Lutha Mahtin posted:hm yes this soil-scientist-approved infrastructure change that turns useless concrete no one uses into useful drainage land is a joke. yep ok there actually are real ways to provide rainfall detention and retention, and even help treat some of the nasty urban runoff that you get around roadways - they're called bioswales and they generally look like small runs of ditch (or swale) that're filled w/ various types of marsh-ey grasses and whatnot to slow the overland flow and help filter the runoff too they do this while the water is on its way to your stormwater system, since having a small slice of permeable ground isn't a good way to put water back into the local water table - you need large large areas to do that (and even then you're gonna get overland or "sheet" flow). i'm a super big fan of permeable pavement for this but you've still gotta have a plan for the water once it hits your subgrade since you can only have so much water absorbed into the local table (and it's not much) you can also get fancy and embed big plastic tanks underneath that use internal weirs to outfall a whole buncha rainwater slowly while exposing it to your bioswale plants and that's good too. there are even some cool designs that incorporate a tree planter into a more standard street curb drainage inlet (really more like a big catch basin) that still feeds into the stormwater system but at any rate the name of the game is always always slowing down the water once it hits the ground and a 4-8 foot wide strip of grass w/ trees every 20 feet doesn't significantly impact this. also the term "watershed" just refers to the area of surface/ground/pavement/grass that drains into a particular place. as in "the ditch in my front yard has a watershed made up of the rest of the yard and the front half of my roof (and half of the road on the other side)". it doesn't have anything to do w/ groundwater absorption
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Nov 18, 2016 18:42
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, more like spergensbanen
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Nov 18, 2016 20:24
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Shaggar posted:just drive ybuspos your city: bus is 20 minutes late, wait no 30, nbd such is life, I hope the bus doesn't literally rape me haha my city: hyperventilating because display says 1 minute but I see the bus in the distance and it's more like 3
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Nov 19, 2016 01:31
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transit.app is v. good
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Nov 19, 2016 03:42
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hackbunny posted:ybuspos moral to the story sounds like buses are unreliable and will never get you to places like interviews on time 
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Nov 19, 2016 04:09
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blugu64 posted:moral to the story sounds like buses are unreliable and will never get you to places like interviews on time only trust your fists
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i took that train from bergen to oslo summer 2015, it owned there was snow melting in the mountains with all these impromptu waterfalls everywhere
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:there actually are real ways to provide rainfall detention and retention, and even help treat some of the nasty urban runoff that you get around roadways - they're called bioswales and they generally look like small runs of ditch (or swale) that're filled w/ various types of marsh-ey grasses and whatnot to slow the overland flow and help filter the runoff too i know i just wanted to word it in a dumb inflammatory way quote:also the term "watershed" just refers to the area of surface/ground/pavement/grass that drains into a particular place. as in "the ditch in my front yard has a watershed made up of the rest of the yard and the front half of my roof (and half of the road on the other side)". it doesn't have anything to do w/ groundwater absorption while you are technically correct that they aren't directly overlapping issues, i was referring more to how issues like groundwater absorption, water tables, etc., are often studied and measured based on local geography and geology, i.e. in terms of watersheds
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Chris Knight posted:transit.app is v. good yeah
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:there actually are real ways to provide rainfall detention and retention, and even help treat some of the nasty urban runoff that you get around roadways - they're called bioswales and they generally look like small runs of ditch (or swale) that're filled w/ various types of marsh-ey grasses and whatnot to slow the overland flow and help filter the runoff too h*ck yeah welcome back hp
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Nov 19, 2016 18:26
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hph is a Quality Poster™
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Nov 20, 2016 07:00
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I like that there's a few tens of feet of weeds and trees between me and ~ten lanes of highway not perfect but whatever - I should probably move or maybe get a window unit air filter, if those exist
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Nov 20, 2016 07:24
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sorry about you're suburban hellscape
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Nov 20, 2016 18:36
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Bloody posted:sorry about you're suburban hellscape we have highways right up in our downtown here in MSP it's nice for reverse commuting but probably really bad for my lungs if the soot I clean off the window sills is any indication
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Nov 20, 2016 19:22
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Munkeymon posted:we have highways right up in our downtown here in MSP I bought one of these "safeguard" window filters a few years ago, that link is to the storefront run by the manufacturer, not sure if you can get it cheaper elsewhere. You get a lot less air throughput since it has a filter and baffles, but hopefully with the benefit of cleaner air. The frame of the unit is pretty nice, I was able to stick each side of it into the grooves for the window frame, and the top and bottom of the frame have rubber strips so when you push the window down onto it it creates kind of a seal. Probably works best if you get several of them and set them up in multiple windows, I just bought the one, so with the way it lowers air-flow it didn't work the best. Eventually I just decided to buy a window air-conditioner. But lucky you, you don't have to keep your windows open anymore because winter 
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Nov 20, 2016 19:44
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blugu64 posted:moral to the story sounds like buses are unreliable and will never get you to places like interviews on time fortunately i took the bus to a place i don't need to be in on time, i.e. work
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Nov 20, 2016 20:38
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Munkeymon posted:we have highways right up in our downtown here in MSP solution: don't clean your window sills.
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lol if an ocean isnt your air filter
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I bought one of these "safeguard" window filters a few years ago, that link is to the storefront run by the manufacturer, not sure if you can get it cheaper elsewhere. You get a lot less air throughput since it has a filter and baffles, but hopefully with the benefit of cleaner air. The frame of the unit is pretty nice, I was able to stick each side of it into the grooves for the window frame, and the top and bottom of the frame have rubber strips so when you push the window down onto it it creates kind of a seal. Probably works best if you get several of them and set them up in multiple windows, I just bought the one, so with the way it lowers air-flow it didn't work the best. Eventually I just decided to buy a window air-conditioner. I'd die of some combination of sleep deprivation and dehydration during the summer if I didn't have window units, but thanks for the suggestion - it'll work well with the blow-out fan setup I've been using during the third of the year it's cool enough for that I still have a window open in 'the office' where all my computer poo poo is because it's self-heating, heh
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Highway lane miles per capita (miles per 1k people) 1. Kansas City - 1.262 2. St Louis - 1.070 3. Houston - .822 4. Cleveland - .816 5. Columbus - .779 6. San Antonio - .759 7. Jacksonville - .745 8. Providence - .742 9. Pittsburgh - .731 10. Baltimore - .724 11. DFW - .719
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lol forever at texas
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Cities in states with low population densities have lots of highways????
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at the date posted:Cities in states with low population densities have lots of highways???? it's almost as if those states are bad and build bad cities!!!!
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Nov 27, 2016 18:54
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no one lives in washington state or oregon but seattle and portland somehow manage to be less sprawled out shitholes that texas or lovely midwestern cities ???
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i like to imagine that houston and san antonio, the #4 and #7 most populous cities in this great nation, grow like how pancake batter acts when you plop it onto a griddle the center simply doesn't have the bearing capacity to support its own weight so it spreads out at a nearly uniform thickness in all directions a much nicer analogy than, say, a malignant tumor
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Nov 27, 2016 19:01
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DFW was two pancakes that were plopped down too closely and welded together
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:doesn't have the bearing capacity to support its own weight so it spreads out at a nearly uniform thickness in all directions much like their residents
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mishaq posted:no one lives in washington state or oregon but seattle and portland somehow manage to be less sprawled out shitholes that texas or lovely midwestern cities ??? because of mountains
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