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Re: NO Caltrain IS Not Dead.....
Author: Yessir!
Date: 02-06-2017 - 14:23
BOB2 Wrote:
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> These Members of Congress are just "threatening"
> to hold the Caltrain electrification funds as a
> political "hostage", to use as a club to beat on
> the HSR fiasco.
>
> Caltrain is not dead, and this will not kill it.
> No, electrification is definitely not necessary
> for the survival of Caltrain. There numerous are
> fully dieselized corridors like this around the
> world that easily carry many more commuters, so it
> is not a capacity issue.
>
> Electrification would be nice, it is the cleanest
> option. But, electification is extremely costly.
> And, I have found few of these electrification
> projects, in my career, that offer a better cost
> benefit ratio for reductions of unhealthful air
> pollutants or CO2, when compared to Tier III or
> Tier IV standards on a cost per ton of air
> pollutions life cylce cost basis.
>
> If Jerry Brown really wanted to reduce CO2
> emissions, we wouuld take carbon fees and offer
> them as grants to institutions or agencies, or tax
> credits to businesses and individuals, in order to
> replace every air conditioning compressor more
> than 20 years old, those reductions would save
> user costs and have a cost benefit ratio per ton
> of CO2 and reductions on a scale that would dwarf
> the tiny HSR reductions projected.
>
> The planned electrification of Caltrain has been
> largely a function of the desire for an
> interoperable HSR/Caltrain corridor, and that has
> made this project a political target/victim of
> that connection.
>
> As I have noted on many occasions, the failure to
> reform and refocus the monies being squandered on
> the CHSRA fiasco, has erroded public credibility,
> that has resulted in a political backlash, that
> now threatens collateral damage to all such
> projects......
DOG DUNG!!
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> These Members of Congress are just "threatening"
> to hold the Caltrain electrification funds as a
> political "hostage", to use as a club to beat on
> the HSR fiasco.
>
> Caltrain is not dead, and this will not kill it.
> No, electrification is definitely not necessary
> for the survival of Caltrain. There numerous are
> fully dieselized corridors like this around the
> world that easily carry many more commuters, so it
> is not a capacity issue.
>
> Electrification would be nice, it is the cleanest
> option. But, electification is extremely costly.
> And, I have found few of these electrification
> projects, in my career, that offer a better cost
> benefit ratio for reductions of unhealthful air
> pollutants or CO2, when compared to Tier III or
> Tier IV standards on a cost per ton of air
> pollutions life cylce cost basis.
>
> If Jerry Brown really wanted to reduce CO2
> emissions, we wouuld take carbon fees and offer
> them as grants to institutions or agencies, or tax
> credits to businesses and individuals, in order to
> replace every air conditioning compressor more
> than 20 years old, those reductions would save
> user costs and have a cost benefit ratio per ton
> of CO2 and reductions on a scale that would dwarf
> the tiny HSR reductions projected.
>
> The planned electrification of Caltrain has been
> largely a function of the desire for an
> interoperable HSR/Caltrain corridor, and that has
> made this project a political target/victim of
> that connection.
>
> As I have noted on many occasions, the failure to
> reform and refocus the monies being squandered on
> the CHSRA fiasco, has erroded public credibility,
> that has resulted in a political backlash, that
> now threatens collateral damage to all such
> projects......
DOG DUNG!!
