New bus lanes on 85 were on the table as part of the Policy Advisory Board’s work. Haven’t been able to find any news on what’ll happen with those, unfortunately.
This may be true in suburban USA, but at least in European cities, sidewalks are used by pedestrians. You have to be alert riding a bike, but it’s a far cry from attempting to weave through foot traffic. The narrower roads also allow for quicker traffic light cycles, which is nicer than waiting a few minutes to cross your average suburban US arterial.
Not correct. When enough images to trigger a match are detected apple employees verify the visual derivative to make sure it matches before an alert is generated. They would need to collude.
You’re right, I was thinking about a breach of privacy in general instead of actual legal consequences. (Though the possibility of governments backdooring Apple’s servers to access decrypted files stands, that shouldn’t make a difference with this iCloud-Photos-only spyware)
Vienna built a bunch of social housing under social-democratic rule to decrease rents, and unlike most other cities, they opened it to a relatively wide income bracket. The value added, if you want to call it that, is _less_ money is spent on rents in the city. Supposedly, a majority of units in Vienna still falls under social-housing restrictions, though I don't have the time to dig deeper now and so I can't tell you what proportion is directly owned by a public enterprise and what proportion is housing co-ops (a somewhat popular model in Europe).
Ikea's “Gerton” tabletop (90€ / $100. 155×75cm = 61×29.5”) is really, really nice — it uses ≈5cm-wide beech hardwood strips glued together and reinforced across the width with some metal . It works with Bekant legs (if you have a 10mm wood bit and some masking tape handy), which are also available as sit/stand legs (that's 430€ / $350, though. the non-adjustable ones are a lot cheaper.)
There was an absurd plan to place a dam between Richmond and San Rafael[1]. When it was finally studied, there were two fatal problems with the plan. (1) There is not enough water in Summer, to keep the bay behind the dam full. (2) There is too much water from snowmelt in early spring and the San Joaquin valley would turn into a lake.
Now to the environmental side: the bay is amazingly productive. It also acts as a nursery for the ocean. The damage done to the Pacific Ocean ecosystem would be all out of proportion to the gains of a little bit of land.
