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synonymouse Wrote:
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> I have to agree with Bob2 that synonomouse is
> prone to senior moments - had one this morning
> while ruminating over where to cut in a Caltrain
> extension to the Eastbay out of SOMA. I was
> thinking large along the lines of eventually
> Sacramento to SOMA and then south to San Jose.
> And then the light came on in the dim bulb: build
> a half grand-union at a propitious location
> somewhat south of the proposed Pennsylvania
> Ave.(St.?)tunnel so that you can not only go south
> but also somewhat north.
>
> North as right into the Transbay Terminal, or
> whatever it will be called in decades to come.
> Trains from the Eastbay right into where they used
> to go ca. 1940. Granted it would be tight
> accommodating all the trains but consider the
> Crazy Train to Palmdale is so poorly conceived
> there won't be that much business. Caltrain will
> be carrying most all the passengers.
>
> The insiders are constantly kvetching we need
> another Bay crossing. A fortune has been spent on
> the Terminal structure and in turn probably
> something on the order of $10bil ultimately on the
> TBT tunnel. All you have to do is mine the second
> transbay tunnel-tube and wire the Capitol
> Corridor. By that time Ms. Schaaf may have scared
> the UP off anyway.
>
> Upside of this idea is that it does not materially
> conflict with set-in-concrete obsessions of the
> power elite. You are never going to talk MTC and
> the SVLG out of Pacheco, no matter how dumb it is.
> Granted this scheme does contrary Bechtelian
> Imperial Gauge Manifest Destiny but that crowd has
> died off to the point BART finally was able to go
> tapered wheel profile. SPUR can be brought around
> as this accesses a whole new infrastructure
> network in the Eastbay whilst a second BART tube
> just taps into funky old white elephant BART. And
> then you have to spend a whole bunch more money to
> get into downtown SF with a second BART tube.