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Ray Delahanty

Ray Delahanty

Former urban planner

Oct 19, 2026

7:32
Yeah.
7:33
Yeah, for sure.
7:34
Yeah, I would say like the things I was working on, like literally at the time I quit and I actually did quit because I decided, yeah, I'll probably have to go back to work.
7:45
But I think I want to be doing something different if and when I go back to work.
7:50
And it was more, I think, More the kind of psychological, mental drain of being a consultant that just kind of worn me out, more so than the actual projects I was working on, because the actual projects I was working on were pretty cool.
8:07
I only had two at the time, but the one that was taking up like 75% of my time was a bus rapid transit project in Portland that... that opened i want to say like i think it opened actually ended up opening at the end of 2021 um it's called uh it's called fx2 division division rapid transit and i was i was leading um the consultant team's design work during construction which is a very specific kind of hectic workflow there are literally people working on constructing the project out in the field and like yeah you've got like your final plans in or whatever that are just the best of like your knowledge of like what's underground um all the information that you have from like the city and utility companies but nevertheless and i'm sure this happens in the twin cities too right like the the construction contractors get out in the field and they start digging and then they run into something it's like oh yeah we didn't know this is here and we have to redesign we have to do like a minor or major redesign to like a bus stop because we can't we can't put the elements where we thought they were going to go and so yeah i mean you're naming like
14:08
it like and me as the as a viewer i thought to myself huh i wonder if that means that we're going to get videos about those specific cities you know like is ray going to be filming and you know are we going to get thoughts about the urbanism in those cities as well is are you like pairing things up that way or or are they completely separate the speaking travel yeah and the filming no no i
14:31
I try to do all of those things.

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