This cat was so hard working that after clearing its owner's apartment of rats -- it was down to the subway to clear that out.

> I think that a lot of it was also related to short-term pandemic effects. A lot of people were out of work.

I agree with pandemic effects but think it's more mental health, not financial. It's a long jump from people being unemployed to becoming murders, and were talking about 50+ cases (100+ from 2012).

This is more about people who were able to mentally keep things together until society underwent a lot of scary upheavals very quickly and they were unable to find help adjusting.

> It didn't use to be this bad. This is a post COVID phenomenon,

Stress from things changing related to covid have people acting out in many public ways -- at restaurants, retail stores, and when driving.

The US doesn't have a lot of mental health resources and it's going to be a long haul to get back to something approximating 'normal' public space behavior.

It's hard for me to imagine Hudson Yards being full while buildings above Penn are unrentable. I know what I'd find more convenient. But I'm not a billion dollar developer.

>>>But Evercore ISI analyst Steve Sakwa told Crain’s that Roth’s statement means the project is “certainly delayed” due to lack of office demand. “They won’t spend billions to build an empty building,” he said.

Presumably this means they don't think Class A occupancy will be back to normal for 3+ years.

Not really, most airports are way too big to really be pedestrian accessible. San Diego and DCA are probably among the best, and both are tiny at 650 to 750 acres. Even medium sized airports like ORD are 10 times larger with large airports nearly 60 times larger. You just can't make walking across 7000 acres "easy."

But there are many transit-accessible airports including Chicago and London. Honestly, DCA isn't too bad for that, and this bridge is an improvement. Although the bridge is a typical nova silliness of building a giant ludicrous structure to make up for poor original design.

I agree there are few non-parking lot stations outside of DC, but this:

> outside of the Beltway.

is pretty generous. Alexandria Eisenhower looks like this and King St isn't vastly better.

Exactly this.

There is no way you can run trains on 4-minute headways out to suburban parking lots -- which is what most of the system is outside of DC.