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Re: Palo Alto residents protest unnecessary Caltrain electrification -- good for them!
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 04-25-2014 - 22:28
Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> "PAMPA" = Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton.
> (I myself had never heard that acronym until
> this post.)
>
> To Synonymouse --
> "Trees grow back." Yeah, if you can wait around
> 100 years! I suppose, then, that it'd be OK with
> you if some government agency came along and cut
> down all the old, tall, mature trees in one part
> of whatever area you live in? How about in your
> yard (if you are fortunate enough to have a
> house)?
> Oh - the ABAG regs only require cities to plan
> for low-income housing (a good idea, BTW, if done
> sensibly) -- not to actually build anything.
>
> To everyone --
> Caltrain electrification is one way to plan for
> HSR here on the SF Peninsula -- a very very bad
> idea,
> and not needed. Yeah -- like we need to go 200
> mph
> from SF to San Jose -- a distance of only 47
> miles?
> Right! Really smart! NOT! And tell me, please,
> just
> exactly who is supposed to pay for this
> ridiculous
> boondoggle of a project? Ordinary folk, who
> cannot
> afford even more taxes, and who have been
> dismayed
> by the cruel and unnecessary cuts to police and
> fire
> department personnel and schools? Isn't properly
> funding those departments just a wee bit more
> important
> than paying for a ridiculously expensive
> high-speed
> train that we don't need? (All that CAHSR is is a
> way
> to take money from middle-income and poor folks
> and give
> it to people who are already very wealthy, who
> neither
> need nor deserve it.)
Those trees are there cause someone at SP decided it was cheaper not to cut them down. Just look at any pic from the 1950/60's the ROW was devoid of such things.
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> "PAMPA" = Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton.
> (I myself had never heard that acronym until
> this post.)
>
> To Synonymouse --
> "Trees grow back." Yeah, if you can wait around
> 100 years! I suppose, then, that it'd be OK with
> you if some government agency came along and cut
> down all the old, tall, mature trees in one part
> of whatever area you live in? How about in your
> yard (if you are fortunate enough to have a
> house)?
> Oh - the ABAG regs only require cities to plan
> for low-income housing (a good idea, BTW, if done
> sensibly) -- not to actually build anything.
>
> To everyone --
> Caltrain electrification is one way to plan for
> HSR here on the SF Peninsula -- a very very bad
> idea,
> and not needed. Yeah -- like we need to go 200
> mph
> from SF to San Jose -- a distance of only 47
> miles?
> Right! Really smart! NOT! And tell me, please,
> just
> exactly who is supposed to pay for this
> ridiculous
> boondoggle of a project? Ordinary folk, who
> cannot
> afford even more taxes, and who have been
> dismayed
> by the cruel and unnecessary cuts to police and
> fire
> department personnel and schools? Isn't properly
> funding those departments just a wee bit more
> important
> than paying for a ridiculously expensive
> high-speed
> train that we don't need? (All that CAHSR is is a
> way
> to take money from middle-income and poor folks
> and give
> it to people who are already very wealthy, who
> neither
> need nor deserve it.)
Those trees are there cause someone at SP decided it was cheaper not to cut them down. Just look at any pic from the 1950/60's the ROW was devoid of such things.
