Re: Cheap shot
Author: Clem
Date: 03-19-2018 - 19:39
I expected better from you than a knee-jerk “you must be on the payroll” dismissal. How weak.
While I get that you don’t like the current approach for California HSR, what you advocate for is mediocre incrementalism. There is no doubt that with a billion here and a billion there you could make far more immediate progress, both in terms of ridership and revenue, than what is now being built. That doesn’t automatically discredit the entire undertaking.
Building a high capacity, high speed, low polluting transportation network backbone for California is not something you do by selecting the immediate next tactical step (a double tracking project here, a new frequency there) to get the best immediate bang for your immediate buck, no matter how “smart” that step may immediately appear. That incremental path leads, “smart” step by “smart” step, to a sub-optimal and mediocre system that will have inherent limits... by following the locally optimal trajectory through a parameter space you will end up at a local maximum of utility. That local maximum is not the global maximum of the utility function and is not where we need to go. Your “smart” incrementalism starts out great (bravo!) but leads straight to mediocrity.
Building a modern rail network in California requires thinking ten steps ahead, and then working backwards to figure out the most effective immediate step to get there. That step will NOT have the most bang for the buck in the short term, nor should it. It may even have zero immediate benefit. But it will eventually get you to the ultimate goal.
Now, if you question the need for a high capacity, high speed, low carbon mobility solution for California, we can just agree to disagree.
What we can and do agree on is that CHSRA isn’t following the right trajectory. There is waste and inefficiency and bad planning, but it’s not too late to fix it.
Jerry Brown dumbs down
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synonymouse |
03-16-2018 - 10:55 |
The Mouse smartens up
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Commenter |
03-16-2018 - 12:38 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up
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synonymouse |
03-16-2018 - 12:51 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up Not really..........
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BOB2 |
03-16-2018 - 15:48 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up Not really..........
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Commenter |
03-16-2018 - 17:28 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up Not really..........
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Clem |
03-16-2018 - 18:31 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up Not really..........
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HUTCH 7.62 |
03-17-2018 - 09:20 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up Not really..........
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Kaboom |
03-17-2018 - 11:27 |
Re: Plowshare
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Linky |
03-20-2018 - 18:51 |
Re: Plowshare
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HUTCH 7.62 |
03-21-2018 - 07:58 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up Not really..........
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M. Harris |
03-17-2018 - 13:20 |
Re: I was to to declare myself dictator, what would I do with the CHSRA
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BOB2 |
03-17-2018 - 15:32 |
Re: I was to to declare myself dictator, what would I do with the CHSRA
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M. Harris |
03-17-2018 - 16:53 |
Re: I was to to declare myself dictator, what would I do with the CHSRA
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Clem |
03-17-2018 - 20:18 |
Re: Can you read a spread sheet? No very few, if any, of my questions are answered by this.........
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BOB2 |
03-18-2018 - 02:06 |
Re: Take a stand!
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Clem |
03-18-2018 - 09:24 |
Re: Can you read a spread sheet? No very few, if any, of my questions are answered by this.........
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synonymouse |
03-18-2018 - 11:06 |
Re: The mysterious voices are leaking through your tinfoil hat.............
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BOB2 |
03-18-2018 - 11:25 |
Re: The mysterious voices are leaking through your tinfoil hat.............
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synonymouse |
03-18-2018 - 11:35 |
Re: The mysterious voices are leaking through your tinfoil hat.............
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Commenter |
03-18-2018 - 17:26 |
Re: The mysterious voices are leaking through your tinfoil hat.............
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synonymouse |
03-18-2018 - 22:45 |
Re: I was to to declare myself dictator, what would I do with the CHSRA
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Max Wyss |
03-18-2018 - 13:15 |
Re: Where are we with CHSRA? No, What are we doing and why are we doing it?
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BOB2 |
03-18-2018 - 14:50 |
Re: What are we doing and why are we doing it?
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Clem |
03-18-2018 - 17:17 |
Re: No, LOSSAN is not my only issue Clem..........
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BOB2 |
03-19-2018 - 00:24 |
Re: No, LOSSAN is not my only issue Clem..........
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synonymouse |
03-19-2018 - 10:47 |
Re: No, LOSSAN is not my only issue Clem..........
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Commenter |
03-19-2018 - 11:09 |
Re: Cheap shot |
Clem |
03-19-2018 - 19:39 |
Re: So are you really a paid schill? You don't actually seem to deny it.....
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BOB2 |
03-20-2018 - 01:10 |
Re: So are you really a paid schill? You don't actually seem to deny it.....
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synonymouse |
03-20-2018 - 10:58 |
Re: will neither confirm nor deny
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Clem |
03-20-2018 - 18:19 |
Re: will neither confirm nor deny- Wow....really, you will neither confirm nor deny that you're shilling us on our dimell??
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BOB2 |
03-20-2018 - 18:27 |
Re: just messing with you now
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Clem |
03-20-2018 - 20:41 |
Re: just messing with you now-really?
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BOB2 |
03-21-2018 - 03:50 |
Re: just messing with you now-really?
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synonymouse |
03-21-2018 - 12:34 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up
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n9949y |
03-16-2018 - 19:38 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up
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theconductor |
03-16-2018 - 20:06 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up
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Bakersfield Conductor |
03-17-2018 - 15:31 |
Re: The Mouse smartens up
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You are flying them now |
03-17-2018 - 08:00 |