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Re: Yes, we should have bought the Coast Line, back when Phil Anschutz offered it to us for only $400 million, but we were governed by a fool.
Author: merv
Date: 10-20-2018 - 11:24

BOB2 Wrote:
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> His last paragraph says it all about his take on
> everything. So how about some facts.....
>
> The State was offered the Coastline by Anschutz
> back in 92 for the grossly inflated price $400
> million dollars, and my old colleague "Steel' Neil
> Peterson and Assembly Transportation Chair Richard
> Katz tried to get folks to act .
>
> That amazing bargain offer to sell us the Coast
> Line, by Phil Anschutz was, of course, bad mouthed
> by a number of fools (aka politicians) as some
> kind of "evil" trick by the "evil" SP. And, that
> useless fool Pete Wilson was doing everything it
> could to roll back the State rail program, so
> Caltrans, Division of Fail, was even more useless
> than usual, in there "assessment" of the proposal.
> A year earlier, and I'm certain that someone real
> smart like George Deukmejian would have said
> yes....and UP's issues wouldn't even be part of
> this post.
>
> If my numbers are correct, it takes about 2 1/2 to
> 3 trucks to carry the same weight/volume of oil.
> So the number of trucks on 166 will be a function
> of that, times the number of current oil cans
> loaded per day. Which is unlikely to cause much
> "congestion" but, since a percentage of rural road
> accidents are correlated with higher truck
> volumes, there is a statistical increase in
> accident probability (and with oil a probability
> of some small increase in potential accident
> severity).
>
> Given the nearly 1 billion in improvements that
> taxpayers will be putting into this line, if all
> of the plans now on the table "come to pass" for
> all of the passenger needs we've identified, it
> would sure be nice to own it, and offer to let
> BNSF run it, or a private contractor. But, way
> back in "92 Pete Wilson, done already "screwed the
> pooch" for us on that, and I can't imagine how
> much money the UP would want to ripoff the State
> for the Coast Line today......

SAD..BUT TRUE!! TRUCKING OUTFIT BUILDING A LOADING FACILTY AT WUNPOST RIGHT NOW..
UP SCREWS EVERYTHINH UP..
MAYBE KEVIN BATES WILL HAVE A BYE BYE LAST TRAIN PARTY AT SLO...LOL

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  Re: Yes, we should have bought the Coast Line, back when Phil Anschutz offered it to us for only $400 million, but we were governed by a fool. merv 10-20-2018 - 11:19
  Re: Yes, we should have bought the Coast Line, back when Phil Anschutz offered it to us for only $400 million, but we were governed by a fool. merv 10-20-2018 - 11:24
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