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09-16-2019 - 10:21
synonymouse
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-15/california-bullet-train-land-acquisition
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09-16-2019 - 09:54
synonymouse
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article234969577.html
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09-15-2019 - 14:31
synonymouse
The plan was to kill off all the streetcars and essentially go BART-like. Ergo NYC subway ca. 1900 - Bechtel genius.
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09-15-2019 - 12:49
synonymouse
One would think the C&TS would entertain the possibility of acquiring the ROW to Alamosa. It was dual gauge. The line is flat and tangent but Alamosa is the regional center.
I dunno if the C&TS wi
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09-15-2019 - 10:20
synonymouse
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sfs-newest-subway-may-emerge-on-the-west-side/
Methinks this could be just another attempt(as ca. 1967)to kill off the K and L streetcars.
Geary has way greater
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09-14-2019 - 10:23
synonymouse
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10035651-181/santa-rosa-to-continue-seeking?ref=TSM&sba=AAS
The safety issue is in your face but then SMART speeds are too high. But nice to see the kingfish beh
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09-14-2019 - 10:08
synonymouse
https://www.ranchosantafereview.com/news/story/2019-08-29/truce-over-san-diegos-vision-for-high-speed-rail-on-the-rocks
Not happening in the Bay Area where the highway lobby, the airline lobby, BAR
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09-13-2019 - 21:44
synonymouse
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/greve/greve-des-transports/greve-ratp-l-impossible-traversee-de-paris_3615869.html
Scroll to around 1:40.
So driverless could say on BART whoop Amalgamated r
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09-13-2019 - 14:45
synonymouse
I dunno, but it seems kinda strange to bring the #4014 to LA and not come up the Valley to Sac - could it negotiate the Loop?
The PTC thing and Wall St. costcut mindset seems ominous to me as far a
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09-13-2019 - 10:28
synonymouse
https://missionlocal.org/2019/09/person-fatally-struck-by-bart-train-at-24th-and-mission-station-station-closed/
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09-13-2019 - 10:24
synonymouse
https://news.immitate.com/2019/09/12/coast-guard-issues-warning-on-charging-phone-batteries-after-california-boat-fire-usa-today/
I do not have a cell phone so I don't know: is cell phone charging
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09-12-2019 - 09:56
synonymouse
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/its-official-central-subway-to-debut-in-2021-nearly-three-years-later-than-planned/
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09-12-2019 - 09:43
synonymouse
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/09/11/major-medical-emergency-closes-bay-fair-bart-station/
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09-11-2019 - 12:16
synonymouse
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/muni-diverts-bayview-buses-to-supplement-chase-center-concert-shuttles/
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09-10-2019 - 10:41
synonymouse
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/cable-car-19-make-historic-debut-muni-heritage
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09-09-2019 - 19:17
synonymouse
Tell "#2" to SPUR.
You are "misunderestimating" the raw political power of BART at the all-important Party level. Greater than that of the Tejon Ranch Co. Caltrain got lucky with PBCAHSR; without
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09-09-2019 - 12:42
synonymouse
My take is SMART counts on a pretty good, maybe surprisingly good, patronage bump at Larkspur Landing North HBF. They might prove lucky and get it.
As to NCRA-NWP freight it is incompatible with 5
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09-08-2019 - 19:44
synonymouse
Right on.
2 big unknowns in SMART's near future: how much patronage to north of Sir Francis Drake and are the voters nowadays that credulous?
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09-08-2019 - 10:27
synonymouse
980. SMART grant funding
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9996796-181/smart-cites-its-grant-haul?sba=AAS
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09-06-2019 - 09:41
synonymouse
981. BART hubris
https://www.marinij.com/2019/09/06/cash-strapped-bart-to-spend-227-million-on-new-downtown-oakland-headquarters/
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09-05-2019 - 10:47
synonymouse
982. Napa Whine Train
https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Napa-Valley-s-Wine-Train-14411726.php
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09-05-2019 - 10:08
synonymouse
Bosco is the nominal and very politically connected leader of the keep the freight cabal along with some foamers high on nostalgia. Does he know that BART-MTC will trash his standard gauge?
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09-05-2019 - 10:04
synonymouse
984. BART Sweet Home
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Homeless-people-were-pushed-from-BART-stations-14414676.php
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09-04-2019 - 16:37
synonymouse
The 4014 does not interface anywhere with the holiest of holies PBCAHSR route to Mecca(aka Palmdale)? Except maybe in LaLa - is #4014 going to LAUS?
Perhaps a subtle message the UP has as much lov
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09-04-2019 - 16:20
synonymouse
And there has not been a train thru the Cal Park Hill Tunnel for about half of that 100 years. What you could reproach the residents of Bret Hart, etc. is buying into the stupidity of the SMART-NWP s
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09-04-2019 - 15:35
synonymouse
Uber is just a glorified taxi company; the real game changer would be self-driving cars that most people could afford. The crunch then, and a real one, would be road and parking capacity.
Public t
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09-04-2019 - 10:55
synonymouse
http://www.ktvu.com/news/-i-know-it-s-a-royal-pain-smart-train-president-empathizes-with-sound-of-blaring-horns
I hope these disgruntled residents of Bret Harte remember to vote against the tax mea
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09-03-2019 - 13:28
synonymouse
No mention of how Bechtel also used the GG Bridge as a pretext in the ghetto gauge cover story. So corruption at the GG Bridge directors is equaled and mirrored by the corruption of the Bechtels and
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09-02-2019 - 10:46
synonymouse
But "...extra long and expensive base tunnels with gentle grades..." put smiles on the faces of the consulting engineers and contractors and construction unions.
STill in a related note, which may
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