https://nypost.com/2019/09/16/mta-unveils-51-5b-plan-to-fix-nycs-decrepit-subway-and-bus-systems/
Spruce it up a bit and extend it a bit; hey Cali(BART for sure) could blow that even faster. Maybe
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https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/09/24/high-speed-rail-from-inland-empire-to-vegas-could-be-reality-in-a-few-years/
What? -no PB, no base tunnels, no viaducts? Heresy.
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https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/89631/california-high-speed-rail-sustainability-report/
"...transforming communities to reduce sprawl..." With base tunnels opening up vast new areas for t
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IMHO the SR 14 backup plan was and is strictly kicking the can down the road for the time being. PB has to wait for Biden to assume power and then the spigot will open for a second base tunnel.
I
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PBCAHSR was designed to precisely not do what you propose. It was gerrymandered to detour thru San Josie, Pacheco, many Valley towns and then way off to the East up to Mojave and then back thru Palmd
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https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/entreprises/alstom/sncf-alstom-perd-un-contrat-a-700-millions-d-euros_3622157.html
This will not sit well with the Alstom workers and unions in a region already
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https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/central-subway-project-projected-to-run-55-million-over-budget/
Could run to $55mil or $70mil ultimately. This line should have not been moved from 3rd & Kearny but
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Just cannot resist this one.
I doubt Trump can win re-election; he has so many powerful interests who hated him in 2016 and meanwhile has acquired some new enemies, say the Chinese and the American
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https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/letters-muni-should-fix-its-current-metro-system-before-it-adds-a-new-subway/
Author of letter does not clearly spell out his Geary corridor route. But does he k
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The faddist bureaucratic elite is calling stridently for an end to fossil. They don't give an eff about your emission controls temporizing. In the interim reality in the bus world that translates to
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Wake up, San Berdoo, in the BART-Bechtel-PB-MTC constellation $500mil is just couch change.
And DMU's are not eco-green at all. They are all fossil mechanical drive; not even hybrids.
If the MT
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https://abc7news.com/man-with-walker-falls-onto-bart-tracks-into-incoming-train/5541435/
3rd rail must be pretty well shielded from anything hitting it.
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