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10-14-2008 - 12:10
synonymouse
Mean streets in the Bay Area. A woman was hit and killed by a Caltrain in Mountain View yesterday; a teenager was fatally shot at the entrance to the Hayward BART station yesterday; and a BART track
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10-13-2008 - 09:24
synonymouse
It shows that Metrolink was aware of the gravity of the problem. I still think that double track is the best answer for countries, like Japan, which have lots of money for infrastructure and don't h
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10-12-2008 - 18:56
synonymouse
I just picked on PG&E because they are the most likely to construct a nuclear power generation plant in our area. Some companies(not necessarily PG&E) like to pass their costs on to the taxpayers as
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10-11-2008 - 18:55
synonymouse
I believe you'll see nuclear waste removed to the moon before Yucca Mountain is ever activated. The countries using nuclear are rich and can pool their resources to perfect orbit lofting technology.
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10-11-2008 - 13:00
synonymouse
Dear Caliphonyia Refugee
The California economy has been torqued for decades by real estate speculators, aka flippers. I have been warning for years that the California real estate disease was spr
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10-11-2008 - 12:33
synonymouse
The local Petaluma paper is reporting that the city bus line will go fare-free for one month(October 10-November10)in an effort to get more riders on board half empty buses. I offer this as a reality
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10-09-2008 - 22:27
synonymouse
What is the ultimate source of the money to pay the $300,000.00 shakedown?
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10-09-2008 - 09:52
synonymouse
I am against SMART. It is very poorly thought out. The figures don't lie - the commute business is falling off and there is absolutely no reason to think a 30 year trend is going to reverse itself.
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10-09-2008 - 09:16
synonymouse
It's the judge's fault. He's catering to Marin's byzantine politics.
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10-08-2008 - 22:38
synonymouse
Democracy didn't make BART go broad gauge. Someone at the top made the decision. Obviously the Sprinter salesmen got to somebody at the top at SMART.
Electric rail will never get a fair hearing i
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10-08-2008 - 13:19
synonymouse
Sadly conspiracy is a way of life in America. It is so beyond theory that we have anti-conspiracy laws. What do you think Citibank is charging Wells and Wachovia with at the moment?
Consider the
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10-08-2008 - 11:50
synonymouse
Shill doesn't have a c. When the Rohnert Park casino opens up maybe I can get a job as one.
Here are a couple of further disengenuous observations on the ongoing SMART soap opera:
#1 Could be
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10-07-2008 - 22:06
synonymouse
My plan is still on the drawing board. SMART's plan is irretrievably flawed. I'd call it at least a draw. Half-baked trumps irresponsible, which is what chopping up the ROW is.
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10-07-2008 - 14:08
synonymouse
I would start with a Petaluma to Santa Rosa streetcar operation on new trackage next to the NWP, using Siemens cars, possibly low floor. For financing I am counting on an Obama administration willing
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10-07-2008 - 09:29
synonymouse
I don't own a car. If it were up to me I would put a "freeze" on freeway construction.
The real friends of Exxon and the Reason Foundation are those who insist on a system which cannot connect dir
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10-06-2008 - 19:41
synonymouse
The term "safely" is one that has to be taken with a generous helping of salt. From reading this posting one would guess the Metrolink disaster happened in a parallel universe light years away from w
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10-06-2008 - 09:01
synonymouse
If we go into a depression Novato could end up boostering the NWP. Bad times can change attitudes - look at what happened to opposition to offshore drilling.
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10-04-2008 - 10:12
synonymouse
Here is the perfect complement to the SMART bike path and solves all FRA problems. Even Novato has got to go for this: http://www.lasvegaslogue.com/what-to-do/why-the-las-vegas-monorail-is-a-nightma
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10-02-2008 - 10:50
synonymouse
What a tempest in a teapot! This is all political posturing. There was very little traffic when the NWP crapped out a few years ago. And that was when the economy was much stronger than it is today
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09-29-2008 - 22:50
synonymouse
IMHO both SMART and BART are botch jobs. The difference between them is that SMART will have nil effect except to compete for subsidies with local buses, but BART will spawn slurbs wherever it treads
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09-29-2008 - 09:41
synonymouse
You are missing the the real issue here. The fix is in for the bike lane because it closes out mass transit, which the real Ritchie Riches do not any where close to their digs. Even so-so affluent M
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09-23-2008 - 10:21
synonymouse
Capdiamont brings up a good point - how can I say the Sonoma-Sf commute is in decline and still say that a successful rail transit in the North Bay has to go to San Francisco. The answer is that the
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09-23-2008 - 08:58
synonymouse
There is a tremendous historical momentum behind building roads in the North Bay. If you go back and read the local newspapers from the aughts, teens and twenties you will find that half of the ads a
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09-22-2008 - 23:56
synonymouse
I certainly do not consider electrification a dumb idea. On the contrary I believe it to be the only way to go for transit rail. As to mainline freight railways I doubt we will ever see that kind of
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09-22-2008 - 19:59
synonymouse
I just looked at the stock market site - oil went up some $16.00, the biggest daily gain so far. Stick that in your ferry boat and your diesel powered doodlebug.
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09-22-2008 - 19:45
synonymouse
Due to the raw political power of the "highway lobby" highway spending in California in the new budget will remain intact while transit funding will be severely cut. Need I say more?
Talk to Golde
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09-22-2008 - 09:35
synonymouse
To continue the Santa Clara analogy, what the North Bay wants and needs is a VTA not an ACE.
The folks who concocted SMART turned a deaf ear to the idea of real light rail from the beginning. Prof
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09-21-2008 - 09:25
synonymouse
Can you imagine BART operating with single track and passing lanes?
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09-19-2008 - 21:26
synonymouse
Last week the mayor of Windsor publicly and pointedly called into question the underlying motives of the Novato lawsuit faction. Since they are vehemently opposed to both SMART and NCRA-NWP, it is re
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09-19-2008 - 11:54
synonymouse
How is it that SMART came up with the plan to deed over half of its ROW to a bike lane? Next to tearing up the ROW and selling it off -NCRA-NWP would be an obstacle there - using the bike lane scheme
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