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The crime line
Jeez… and all this time I thought it was a myth that Amherst didn’t want the MetroRail extended to it’s town because it would bring the crime to it from the city. Turns out, that’s actually a fact in places like “idyllic” Portland. When TriMet opened the light-rail line in 1986, it eliminated its transit…
Walking towards the Duomo
I think these are the last three shots I’ll post before we start on the Duomo photos. Amanda corrected me on the last post that she was in fact with me at this point in the trip. Otherwise, I may never have bought the chestnuts in the last photo…
They took R jobs!
BuffaloPundit posted an email he got from a downstate toll collector… Hi… I was reading about the removal of the tolls in the blog, and caught the line about “everybody winsâ€. Not everybody. There’s about 150 of us down here maintaining I-84 that have no idea one way or the other about your toll booths….
A different view of the housing “crisis”
Here’s a unique way of looking at housing costs data. Take the average housing prices in the U.S. since 1890, adjust for inflation, then plot it on a rollercoaster. Pay particular attention to 1997 onward. via Consumerism Commentary