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Re: All those night freight trains?
Author: Q
Date: 10-25-2014 - 13:46
All those night freight trains???? ????
Freight Trains! Last I heard, we were lucky to get any freight trains at all - maybe one turn every 24 hours, or was it only three or four times a week - if that. Must be too much pot! ---- It can make you super sensitive to sound - hurts for hours.
What a charmed life they must live in that has-been town (Palo Alto), if the "most serious problem the city council has to deal with" is train noise. Apparently, When you already have everything, there's not much else to go get!
So let 'em go get it. Let the city install the needed adjustments to street designs, in order to qualify for quiet zone status under FRA rules (by federal law the city or state is responsible for that). But then again, they then wouldn't have any more problems to solve, and so the council, with nothing to do, would then have to be disbanded.
Naw, can't have that happen! They'll just become even more what they already are; just another hammer looking for another nail.
And the 41% republican / 32% democrat numbers in Atherton, are not all that different from millions of other towns across the country. Though the numbers might be reversed in many places, this is a very typical split; wherein neither party can win without a majority of the middle voters. Making it especially less meaningful is the fact that registering republican hardly means you vote the "republican stereotype"; neither at the ballot box, nor especially when you get to Congress. Republican party discipline is very weak compared to the democrats.
Now I am aware of at least one place you might get away with labeling as very republican, with a 75% republican registration (Utah County, Utah for example). But you still can't predict how they will vote or depend upon a conservative mind set (whatever the heck that is).
Heavy republican party registration still does not seem to mean a lot. Democrats still can and do get elected; many cities publicly own and operate utilities (electric, gas, water, garbage collection, etc; and even fiber networks); by popular vote taxes pay for publicly owned light rail and diesel hauled commuter trains; and so on. Go figure that one out!
So how do people in Atherton actually decide how to vote - probably not very different than anywhere else. Like many less than stellar Americans, most probably vote their own perception of their own pocket book. Just as you do!
Freight Trains! Last I heard, we were lucky to get any freight trains at all - maybe one turn every 24 hours, or was it only three or four times a week - if that. Must be too much pot! ---- It can make you super sensitive to sound - hurts for hours.
What a charmed life they must live in that has-been town (Palo Alto), if the "most serious problem the city council has to deal with" is train noise. Apparently, When you already have everything, there's not much else to go get!
So let 'em go get it. Let the city install the needed adjustments to street designs, in order to qualify for quiet zone status under FRA rules (by federal law the city or state is responsible for that). But then again, they then wouldn't have any more problems to solve, and so the council, with nothing to do, would then have to be disbanded.
Naw, can't have that happen! They'll just become even more what they already are; just another hammer looking for another nail.
And the 41% republican / 32% democrat numbers in Atherton, are not all that different from millions of other towns across the country. Though the numbers might be reversed in many places, this is a very typical split; wherein neither party can win without a majority of the middle voters. Making it especially less meaningful is the fact that registering republican hardly means you vote the "republican stereotype"; neither at the ballot box, nor especially when you get to Congress. Republican party discipline is very weak compared to the democrats.
Now I am aware of at least one place you might get away with labeling as very republican, with a 75% republican registration (Utah County, Utah for example). But you still can't predict how they will vote or depend upon a conservative mind set (whatever the heck that is).
Heavy republican party registration still does not seem to mean a lot. Democrats still can and do get elected; many cities publicly own and operate utilities (electric, gas, water, garbage collection, etc; and even fiber networks); by popular vote taxes pay for publicly owned light rail and diesel hauled commuter trains; and so on. Go figure that one out!
So how do people in Atherton actually decide how to vote - probably not very different than anywhere else. Like many less than stellar Americans, most probably vote their own perception of their own pocket book. Just as you do!
