> I'd be interested to know if any US cities have deeper tunnels
The downtown portions of Chicago's Blue Line[1] and Red Line[2] were primarily dug using tunnel boring machines in the 1940s. Here's a better view of the tunnels being not square[3].
Edit: infographic of various tunnels under Chicago, many of which are even deeper than these bored ones[4]
I used to do this and then stopped once I switched to Linux where selecting text put it on a clipboard automatically.
I suspect it's related to some patterns when reading books, like putting a bookmark below your current line and moving it down, or following your current position with your finger.
Got a citation on this? I'd love for it to be true, since it'll save me a lot of effort. But WSJ, for instance, requires you to cancel via phone even if you sign up online.
Nice find. From some other quick research, if there is a violation, you have to report it to Visa via phone or mail.
Looks like they used to have an online form a several years ago, but it went missing. Various blog/forum posts indicate that most people have had no luck getting any sort of response from Visa via mail.
It's there now (with a timestamp of 2 hours ago), but /r/google isn't what I would consider a good barometer of what's important or popular news. It's larger than I expected at ~77k subscribers, but contrast with /r/android at ~623k subscribers, and it does not show up frequently on the first dozen pages of /r/all in my experience.
Vehicle and person hits cause exceptional delays, but not significantly more so than the string of breakdowns in February. They apologized for this, and seem to have fewer rush hour problems, so maybe this has improved.
They could do more to improve the standing room problem, which adds up quickly. My evening train is now perpetually 3-5 minutes late, which adds 10% to the runtime, due to the train in front being overcrowded. They are putting out new timetables for next month that they claim will improve this. Their fix is to move its departure time closer to the slow train in front, and add 3 minutes to the trip duration. Frustrating.
Faster acceleration. Each stop will cost less time, and Caltrain has a surprising amount of stops between SF-SJ (22 weekday) for its length (47 miles). You can see this effect already with the amount of express schedules that Caltrain has and their varying trip times.
What I perceive as the good bits of BART could be replicated on Caltrain with much less effort than replacing Caltrain with BART: the off-peak timetable. Caltrain does better for longer trips in my (limited to South Bay) experience, which makes sense since Caltrain average trip length is 1.5x to 2x longer than BART's. But overall, getting improvements seems much less technical and more political, and neither system seems to have much luck.
Some don't, and it can make sense. If you rent it out, then you have to be a landlord, which puts you on the hook for repairs, finding tenants, and collecting rent or evicting them. There's always the possibility of tenants trashing the unit to a large degree. Some of these problems become way worse when left untreated for a week, a month, or longer. I can imagine it making sense for foreign investors to leave units empty in these circumstances.
In a similar vein, it's not just foreign investors. It might also make sense to leave the grandparent's house empty while they are in the nursing home if you live further away. If the grandparents don't need to sell the house to pay for retirement, you'd probably come off cheaply enough to leave it empty, pay the property tax and minimal utilities, rather than risk having tenants.
> you have to be a landlord, which puts you on the hook for repairs, finding tenants, and collecting rent or evicting them
I imagine that there are companies that do exactly that for you taking percentage of rent you'd get if you done all that by yourself. I also imagine there are insurances for landlords and/or investors. There's so much money in this when you approach this as investments (as opposed to not renting your grandfather house because it's too much of a bother to clean it out and think about) that I imagine no sane investor lets their property, they just bought to stand empty.
Property Management companies can be extremely inept. At the end of my last lease the property managers for my place were fired for letting the owners family home degrade so far. The property managers then tried to pass all the damages off to my roommates and I, but we had extensive documentation of the existing damages.
