Lee J. Cobb should have gotten an Oscar for John Friendly just as John Huston should have gotten one for Noah Cross in "Chinatown".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0exWqvxeI
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The electrification of Caltrain and the TBT project could have been accomplished decades ago when there weren't any nearly as many skyrises in the path had it not been for the treachery of BART-MTC, K
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Did they ever find out who offed the don on Staten Island?
The quintessential NYC union leader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXFbuW47kA
What did Tony Soprano call them? "no-show jobs"?
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AFAIK these lots have been privately owned since the beginning of Petaluma and the original Stratton(IIRC)survey of the 1850's. There were small manufacturing outfits there and grain-feed operations
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Courtesy of Petaluma growth-mongering. Just received a letter from a developer touting 40 apartments sitting squeaky next to NWP lead track past Hunt & Behrens to Dairymens Feed and fronting on Petal
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SMART trains are going thru that congested and poorly laid out crossing at 70mph. We are not talking 20mph.
Obviously trains cannot stop on a dime. Buses can stop faster but can easily put stande
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https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10104632-181/woman-two-dogs-fatally-struck
"Despite repeated requests, neither SMART General Manager Farhad Mansourian nor Police Chief Jennifer McGill made thems
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https://www.marinij.com/2019/09/27/golden-gate-transit-cancels-100-bus-rides-amid-labor-dispute/
"The bus system is projected to operate at a $52 million deficit during the fiscal year that began i
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Apparently leftist governments are somewhat more prone to corruption than rightist ones; altho I dunno exactly why.
Eventually graft will become part of the culture, in the blood, as with the mafia
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It would appear that Liccardo, Guardino and the various and sundry SV tycoons throw a lot of weight around all the way to DC.
I think MTC is kinda cut out of this one and the gravy - must rankle a
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The way you guys describe it even if the #4014 made it to Sacramento it would not seem quite the way a big modern steam locomotive is supposed to "show".
The last time I saw the #844 in Roseville I
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https://sfbay.ca/2019/09/27/woman-carrying-two-dogs-jumps-in-front-of-train-all-three-die/
Speeds too high; doodlebugs lack dynamic breaking and stop slower than electric light rail.
Vote no on
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I certainly would not consider RR a "rino"; he was the direct ideological descendant of Barry Goldwater. The Donald is as pretty close to a pure reaganite you are going to get; somewhat to the left o
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Kopp has claimed he favored the obvious Tejon-Grapevine routing but Palmdale interests opposed it. I assume it was primarily Antonovich and the Ranch leading the embargo of Tejon.
I voted for Prop
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http://www.kmjnow.com/2019/09/25/fppc-investigating-another-california-high-speed-rail-official/
This is chump change: the real collusion is between PB and the Party and real estate developers at P
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