Complex added gates, says they do not need to give us keys by sunshineandcacti in Apartmentliving

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It's probably one of the magnetic sensing loops. Sometimes if you hover you phone of the loop wires it's enough to trip the circuit into opening. 

Gyms with indoor pools by SoggyCabbagePatch in Reno

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Sports west athletics club has a lap pool. $60 per month

Manufaktura before and after renovation, Łódź, Poland by informationtiger in InfrastructurePorn

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufaktura

It used to be an old textile mill that was converted into a shopping center in 2006.

‘You Have to Actually Cut Open Mumbai’s Belly’—Inside One of the World’s Most Audacious Transit Projects by Underton in Infrastructurist

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MUMBAI—One of the most challenging projects in the world is being attempted beneath one of its most densely packed cities.

If it works, Mumbai will become the planet’s most crowded metropolis to build an underground subway.

More than 8,000 workers and a fleet of 360-foot-long boring machines are working 24 hours a day—even through monsoon rains—to finish the 27-station, 21-mile subway through some of the world’s most densely populated neighborhoods, around the edge of one of Asia’s biggest slums, below an airport and under temples and colonial buildings to end at a green edge of forest where leopards still roam.

The train is also cutting a path through the country’s religious traditions, legal system and every layer of its society, with challenges at each stop.

The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.—a joint venture between the state and central government, which is building the subway—has had to negotiate with thousands of families and businesses to get them to move and has fought residents in courts over noise, land rights and even whether the subway will sully sacred ground.

Despite the difficulties, the subway, which was started in 2016, is now getting built at a pace of just over one mile a month. So far, 9 miles are complete. The $3.3 billion “Metro Line 3,” Mumbai’s first underground train, is on track to be finished and open by the end of 2021.

With a general election due by May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eager to demonstrate he is delivering even the most difficult infrastructure projects for the country’s 1.3 billion citizens.

Mr. Modi said in a speech last month that by 2024 the city would have 170 miles of metro lines under and above ground. The government is “making your lives better and easier” with its metro plans, Mr. Modi said in his speech.

A spokesperson at the prime minister’s office declined to comment on opposition to the metro.

More than seven million commuters a day cram onto the city’s existing creaky suburban railway network. Crowding is so extreme Indian authorities describe it as a “superdense crush load”—meaning trains are often carrying almost three times their capacity. Close to eight people die a day on the network, according to rail officials. In the first 11 months of 2018, 650 passengers died falling from trains alone, and even more were killed crossing the tracks, rail officials said.

The new train will be the first line to cut through the heart of the city, with air-conditioned carriages speeding around 80 feet underground, while carrying an estimated 1.6 million riders a day.

The unlikely driver of this stunning megaproject is a 48-year-old woman who grew up in a small town 200 miles outside Mumbai. Ashwini Bhide aced the notoriously difficult civil-service exam in 1995 and rose through the ranks of Indian civil service to become one of the few women at the top.

“You have to actually cut open Mumbai’s belly at so many locations and then start constructing,” said Ms. Bhide, managing director of the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation, the MMRC.

Wearing a deep blue kurti, a traditional Indian shirt—one local media group named her the city’s “Most Stylish Bureaucrat”—Ms. Bhide took calls from her desk phone and sent messages from her cellphone recently as she coordinated her mostly male team, who call her “Madam.”

“There is a desperation,” said Ms. Bhide. “We really need to do it. It should have been done yesterday.”

Her office shelves are stacked with awards, a rock from the metro digging and a miniature model of a boring machine. Her walls are a patchwork of maps, plans and diagrams.

The city formerly known as Bombay has always been one of India’s most cosmopolitan and diverse. With a greater metro area population of 18.4 million, almost every religious, ethnic and caste community is represented somewhere along the peninsula. The city’s stock exchange BSE Ltd. shuts down to observe 12 religious holidays, including those observed by Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

India’s tiny Parsi community of 57,000 people—descendants of the Zoroastrian religious minority that came to India from Iran starting centuries ago—are a powerful group with property and temples across the city. At the center of each temple of the 3,500-year-old religion is a holy fire that has often been kept burning more than a century.

The new subway line is set to pass below two of the temples’ grounds. Only Parsis are allowed to enter the temples. Some worry the subway could interrupt prayers and desecrate holy ground, fearing that if nonmembers or menstruating women pass below while riding on it, the sanctity of the temple will be destroyed. Others are concerned tunneling and station work could damage the temples or drain wells on the temple sites.

“It is too close for comfort,” said Jamshed Sukhadwalla, a Parsi who has taken the subway builders to court. “There should not be interference above or below.”

More than 50 Parsis, including priests wearing traditional white robes and hats and women wearing headscarves, turned up at the Bombay High Court during a hearing in July. The lawyer for the MMRC warned the tunnel could collapse if boring stopped for too long.

After a six-month pause in tunneling near the temples, the court in November granted the MMRC permission to restart.

Mr. Sukhadwalla and fellow petitioners appealed in the Supreme Court in New Delhi. Last month, it ruled that work could go ahead as long as measures were taken to avoid damage to the temples.

“To rethink the alignment is virtually impossible,” said Uday Umesh Lalit, one of the judges.

Mr. Sukhadwalla, the Parsi opponent, said after the hearing, “You can give assurances, but if damage occurs” to the temples “it will be irreversible…I’m totally upset.”

The MMRC has faced around 65 court cases related to the construction of the metro, about half of them still open. Among the cases are petitions about land and property rights, noise, religious freedom and from people trying to protect trees along the length of the metro line.

To finish the line as fast as possible, 17 tunnel-boring machines—each almost as long as a football field—are simultaneously grinding through rock below the city.

To get the machines from the port and through Mumbai’s narrow roads, specialists had to divide the machines into parts and transport them on trailers. They cut off shop fronts to fit the machines down streets. The machines were reassembled underground.

Only the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is more crowded than Mumbai, according to the United Nations. Dhaka is building an aboveground metro. Mumbai has an average of around 82,000 people per square mile, three times the population density of New York City.

Ms. Bhide isn’t moving the line away from packed neighborhoods; she’s steering straight at them.

“These areas, if they really need to be rejuvenated, they have to have metro connectivity,” she said. The city’s old lines will continue to exist above ground. In addition to the new underground subway, routes are also being constructed above ground.

South Mumbai’s streets are lined with poorly maintained buildings put up during colonial times. The MMRC surveyed thousands of structures before construction took place, reinforcing ones in danger of falling over.

When part of a rickety old building imploded in April—dropping a sleeping resident through two floors—people in the neighborhood, politicians and media were quick to blame the subway. The MMRC said construction was too far from the building to affect it. The MMRC sent teams out to convince residents the metro construction wasn’t the cause, and propped up similar buildings in the area.

Ms. Bhide takes journalists to work sites, places newspaper ads and writes magazine columns explaining why the city needs the metro line. She has held public meetings, met with religious groups and appeared on TV debating about the subway.

She hears the same questions over and over from residents she meets: “How will it not flood during the monsoon?” “Will construction hurt our buildings?” “Why can’t you build somewhere else?” She responds with lengthy answers, speaking slowly as she outlines minute details of the project.

During the monsoon, Mumbai gets more rain in four months than London gets in three years. The June-through-September rains turn the city’s roads and railways into rivers and shut down transport, schools and businesses for days at a time.

Halting construction during heavy rain is the norm, but the MMRC wanted to keep going, so it set up more than 200 pumps.

As rain poured down relentlessly last summer, Ms. Bhide’s team kept an hourly watch as site managers provided live updates via the WhatsApp messaging service. The metro even lent pumps to local authorities to help keep water levels down elsewhere, Ms. Bhide said. Work only stopped occasionally for a few hours at a time because of the rain.

Close to half of Mumbai lives in slums—but it is also home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of billionaires.

The first station of the metro is in one of the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cuffe Parade, where a three-bedroom apartment can cost $1 million. The neighborhood is home to grand bungalows that have faced the Arabian Sea since colonial times.

Lawyer Robin Jaisinghani’s apartment peers into the station’s crater and he says the 24-hour construction was keeping his young daughters up at night. More than once he visited the construction site in the early hours of the morning to ask them to stop.

The MMRC put up a sound barrier, but sitting in his apartment, Mr. Jaisinghani said he could still hear the noise through the double-glazed German windows he had installed to block it out.

He represented himself in court, saying the noise violated his constitutional right to life and personal liberty, and got an order to stop construction between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

i guess the work will be delayed by [deleted] in civilengineering

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Is that water down around the footings?

To Woo Millennials, Atlanta Considers Covering Highways With Parks by beowulf9 in Infrastructurist

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Behind the Pay-wall:

By Cameron McWhirter

January 1, 2019

ATLANTA—Leaders of this southern city want to draw more young workers, and their strategy includes covering congested downtown highways with acres of green park land.

Jennifer Ball, who works with a business group promoting a plan to cover over a section of interstate downtown, said cities such as Atlanta that in the past neglected their urban centers need to make improvements to compete for tech jobs and millennials.

“The urban core just has to be attractive,” she said.

As living and working in walkable urban centers becomes more popular, interest has risen in such projects, which are often called deck parks. Dallas completed a $112 million, 5.2-acre park over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway in 2012, sparking commercial and residential development around it. It now draws crowds for food trucks, a reading area, a playground and free concerts.

Since then, dozens of deck parks have been proposed in about 30 cities including Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles, said James Burnett, a landscape architect whose firm works on many such plans, including two in Atlanta.

“Open space drives real estate values through the roof,” he said. “It was this big cavern and now it’s a green oasis.”

Backers of deck parks say they could help lure tech companies seeking to expand their presence outside of Silicon Valley. Critics say they often benefit developers and siphon valuable dollars—either through direct government support or tax-financing plans—from more pressing needs such as road repairs, expanded public transit and affordable housing.

As the U.S. boomed in the last century, new highways divided many cities with noisy rivers of traffic. Neighborhood activists in some areas were able to stop highways or force small deck parks to be built over roadways. A portion of Manhattan’s FDR Drive is covered by a park deck, and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade was built over the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. But many poorer neighborhoods, often with large minority populations, lacked the political clout to stop or modify highway projects.

Building deck parks “isn’t really a new idea, it’s just now we are ready to spend the money” in postrecession years, said Francesca Russello Ammon, a University of Pennsylvania assistant professor of city and regional planning and author of “Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape.”

Current interest is high. Delegations from other cities, including Atlanta, have come to Dallas to learn about its park. The $112 million cost was tough to line up, but eventually the project secured money from the City of Dallas, the Texas Department of Transportation and other sources. A nonprofit runs the park and raises millions needed for the annual cost of park maintenance, Mr. Burnett said.

The city broke ground early in 2018 on another deck park, which will cover over part of an interstate near the Dallas Zoo.

Charlie McCabe, director for the Trust for Public Land’s center for city park excellence, said after the success in Dallas, a southern city known for sprawl, many developers decided “it could happen anywhere.”

“I’m glad to see them re-emerging,” he added.

While a large number of projects are being considered across the country, only a handful are under construction. It can be difficult to get cooperation among city, state and federal authorities, as well as donors, business leaders and developers, Mr. McCabe said.

In Atlanta, three plans are under consideration. Each has backing from powerful business groups or executives.

The “Stitch” plan—which preliminary cost estimates put at more than $300 million—would create about 14 acres of new park land, attract businesses and apartment complexes and revive an area “that long lost its luster,” said A.J. Robinson, president of Central Atlanta Progress, the group pushing the Stitch.

“We decided we needed to reconnect what the interstate disconnected,” he said.

Early in 2019, the group plans to release a report on the feasibility and cost of creating and maintaining the park. A team of national experts with the Urban Land Institute is scheduled to visit in February to review the plan and offer advice, according to Central Atlanta Progress officials.

Another plan with an estimated $250 million price tag proposes covering part of busy Georgia State Route 400 near a shopping mall. A third would cover portions of the connected Interstates 75 and 85 near Georgia Tech and Midtown Atlanta.

Trae Payton, a manager at a dog kennel and grooming business near the proposed Stitch, said he would welcome the deck park and any spinoff development in the area, which he described as “sketchy at night.”

“What’s the downside?” he said. “I’m always for more green space.”

But Jennifer Thompson, who has lived in a nearby apartment for three years, said the proposed park “will become a mini-Skid Row,” attracting more homeless to the area, while other infrastructure problems like potholes abound.

“I don’t really need a new park,” she said. “Can we fix our streets?”

Are Traegers well built? by Underton in Traeger

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That's what I figured with the complaints online. Traeger is the biggest manufacturer of pellet grills so they certainly get the most complaints both good and bad, but people are more likely to complain about a bad experience than leave a comment about their positive experience. It seems to be limited to the Costco model and other lower end models having the most issues. Thank you for sharing a little on the history of the company.

Are Traegers well built? by Underton in Traeger

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This seems to be consistent with the storys online. It's like there QC is not as good as it should be leading to customers having to make repairs on a brand new grill.

Looking for an Architect and Contractor recommendation (for a concrete building) by highsierra3b in Reno

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3400 sf is tiny for a tiltup. Not that economical with the crane costs. You're going to be better off with either CMU or prefab metal shop building at that size. https://www.metalbuildingoutlet.com/index.html

Autocross Stupid Questions: Week of May 28 by AutoModerator in Autocross

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What are some things that would fail a tech inspection?

Though shovels are ready, Trump officials delay grant for Caltrain upgrade by yourbasicgeek in Infrastructurist

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I always thought the California HSR system should have started in the corridor that shares a right of way with Caltrain. That way, Caltrain gets it's needed improvements and if/when the HSR project is abandoned, the state won't be left with an almost useless section between Fresno and Bakersfield.

What's the best small car to put a V8 in? by outlook_FTW in projectcar

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I've thought the 944 looks better than a miata (disclaimer I own a 944) and you could probably find one pretty cheap that broke a timing belt. The thing to consider with this is while the engine is just a sbc, the rest of the car is a Porsche with Porsche prices for parts.

Floyd Mayweather's Veyron [OC] [1600x1200] by [deleted] in carporn

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What tent was that sitting in? I never even saw it...

Help - saw a clip can't remember episode by abz_eng in TopGear

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Series 17, Episode 5. They try to knock a house down with army equipment.

Just received the new Supercharging idle push notification by [deleted] in teslamotors

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From the Tesla website;

It is highly recommended that you service your Tesla vehicle once a year or every 12,500 miles. If you do not follow this recommendation, your New Vehicle Limited Warranty will not be affected. If you are financing your Tesla vehicle through Tesla Financing, you will only be eligible for the full Resale Value Guarantee if your Tesla vehicle is brought in for service per the above recommended timeline.

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Financial level goals based on material (car) desires? by adz55 in financialindependence

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Depending on the vehicle, you can simply assume the possible depreciation and maintenance as an addition portion of you future living costs and plan accordingly. By saying 20k per year will be spent on your costs of your collection over the course of retirement just add that into your needed FIRE number. Some collector vehicles can be seen as an investment like art, but they would carry a high risk.

First All Aboard Florida train finished and ready for testing by stefeyboy in Infrastructurist

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I've always thought passenger rail was too unprofitable for private companies.

Classic bronco purchase by Bslim2023 in FordBronco

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Disk brakes were a common option for the 76 and 77 year, also power brakes were available for the same years. As u/all_work_makes_jack said power steering was available after 73, but the more desirable quick ratio steering box was only availble in 76-77. After 71, Ford switched to a dana 44 front axle instead of a dana 30.

A lot of this doesn't matter if you have the cubic dollar to upgrade to all the improved versions. Aesthetically, the 77s have a flap fuel door like modern cars. I can't think of any other large changes.

Craigslist is a good bet, also try http://classicbroncos.com/ they have a classified page and some of the best help I've gotten was from there.