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Re: Palo Alto residents protest Caltrain Electrification
Author: Henry Miller
Date: 04-25-2014 - 16:23
HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> Palo Alto Online
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> You would think the Greenies would be cheering for
> the end of diesels on Caltrain. Some of the
> comments of the ill informed are just hilarious.
Some of the whiners think that the SF Board of Supervisors and SF MUNI will run the show if electrification takes place. To quote:
"You now have a CALTRAIN. When and if this system becomes electric then your system will cease to exist - it will be part of the larger system used in SF. All of the management and funding will come from some central point in SF. What a vision. The system will then have to accommodate the larger set of schedules for the transportation center.
What happens in Europe has nothing to do with this - it is what is happening in SF - that is where this will be managed from.
Maybe that is the way this is suppose to be."
Then there are those who, among other things, say that Cal_Train should have been brought to the Eastbay to connect to 'Transcontinental Trains' per this quote:
"Trains here are slow, dirty, overcrowded and leave you off in San Francisco far from the center of any business district. No, a ball park is not the only business of importance there.
Let's move on--underground all utilities, separate all train crossings, convert to diesel locomotives, bring Caltrain across the bridge and connect it to trans-continental trains."
Well, in a way, it kinda used to be that way, a long time back...
Folks arriving in San Francisco could hop on a Southern Pacific IER 'Red Train' and ride across the bridge to the Oakland-16th Street station, and make their beloved transfer to a "Transcontinental Train".. BUT, there were those in high places who didn't like that, so, it was all ripped out and scrapped! Oh well!!
Henry
Oakland.
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> Palo Alto Online
>
>
> You would think the Greenies would be cheering for
> the end of diesels on Caltrain. Some of the
> comments of the ill informed are just hilarious.
Some of the whiners think that the SF Board of Supervisors and SF MUNI will run the show if electrification takes place. To quote:
"You now have a CALTRAIN. When and if this system becomes electric then your system will cease to exist - it will be part of the larger system used in SF. All of the management and funding will come from some central point in SF. What a vision. The system will then have to accommodate the larger set of schedules for the transportation center.
What happens in Europe has nothing to do with this - it is what is happening in SF - that is where this will be managed from.
Maybe that is the way this is suppose to be."
Then there are those who, among other things, say that Cal_Train should have been brought to the Eastbay to connect to 'Transcontinental Trains' per this quote:
"Trains here are slow, dirty, overcrowded and leave you off in San Francisco far from the center of any business district. No, a ball park is not the only business of importance there.
Let's move on--underground all utilities, separate all train crossings, convert to diesel locomotives, bring Caltrain across the bridge and connect it to trans-continental trains."
Well, in a way, it kinda used to be that way, a long time back...
Folks arriving in San Francisco could hop on a Southern Pacific IER 'Red Train' and ride across the bridge to the Oakland-16th Street station, and make their beloved transfer to a "Transcontinental Train".. BUT, there were those in high places who didn't like that, so, it was all ripped out and scrapped! Oh well!!
Henry
Oakland.
