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06-21-2019 - 18:56
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-will-receive-300-million-from-feds-to-start-14026103.php
5'6" always gets the cigar. Most all the cigars.
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06-21-2019 - 18:32
synonymouse
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-power/general-electric-to-scrap-california-power-plant-20-years-early-idUSKCN1TM2MV
I assure you my PG&E electricity is not cheap. And at a time when the entr
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06-21-2019 - 14:37
synonymouse
Big ticket projects are not a waste of money to BART-MTC-SPUR-ABAG-SVLP et al. And of course they are most importantly distributable patronage to the Party and the likes of PB-Tutor.
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06-21-2019 - 12:03
synonymouse
1204. Dan Walters shanks CAHSR
https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/trump-doing-california-a-bullet-train-favor/
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06-21-2019 - 11:08
synonymouse
1205. Re: Cable car question
If you really get interested in the cable cars and how they got to be where they are today, the big question which will bug you is could a better job have been done in 1954 when the system was severel
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06-20-2019 - 18:54
synonymouse
You would think that a WPA mural done by a leftist artist if not CP member at George Wash. H.S. in SF would be "grandfathered" but soi-disant lefties want it destroyed now. So "revisionism" could ove
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06-20-2019 - 18:32
synonymouse
1207. Re: Cable car question
Batteries as I recall.
Too bad Charlie is not still with us to try to answer your questions. The extant cable cars have been extensively rebuilt of course and I think some parts have been saved an
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06-20-2019 - 14:49
synonymouse
Their equipment might as well be BART cars.
In regulation-happy Kumbaya all this historical stuff and especially steam will likely not be permitted to operate, even on their own museum property, wi
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06-19-2019 - 20:10
synonymouse
1209. Re: Electric planes?
People have mostly forgotten the Wright Bros. worked out of a bicycle shop. Humble beginnings.
R&D is great and especially basic science but we already have electric stuff that worked over a centu
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06-19-2019 - 09:41
synonymouse
1210. BART budget
https://www.dailycal.org/2019/06/19/bart-aims-to-increase-safety-with-2020-budget-fare-increase/
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06-19-2019 - 09:27
synonymouse
1211. Electric planes?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airshow-electric-planes-analys/electric-planes-start-small-as-industry-wrestles-with-emissions-idUSKCN1TK1E1
Seems to me most of this global warming motiva
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06-18-2019 - 15:50
synonymouse
Ft. Bragg a bedroom community for bursting at the seams San Rafael?
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06-18-2019 - 13:47
synonymouse
I actually voted for Jimmy twice but he did not stand a chance against Ronnie after the failed hostage rescue attempt. Poor Jimmy like so many others thought the Ayatollah government was some kind of
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06-14-2019 - 22:52
synonymouse
Hardly a windmill, BART is the shekel-sucking 800lb gorilla of Bay Area transport.
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06-14-2019 - 21:12
synonymouse
Clearly Bombardier plans to thrive/survive as the crony bechtel gauge carbuilder in perpetuity.
But the best laid plans of mice and men...
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06-14-2019 - 12:42
synonymouse
California voters are highly susceptible to Jedi(read Party)mind tricks. They are the exact opposite of Watto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAvGKfaO3os
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06-14-2019 - 12:17
synonymouse
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bombardier-california/bombardier-opening-new-california-rail-car-assembly-site-idUSKCN1TF2EP
Maybe they can sell some standard gauge metro railsets to India. Or i
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06-14-2019 - 10:39
synonymouse
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/06/13/californias-high-speed-rail-is-the-very-definition-of-a-boondoggle/
California is striving for a perfect iteration of the hustle that traditionally has been as
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06-14-2019 - 10:16
synonymouse
https://kcbsradio.radio.com/blogs/melissa-culross/bart-board-approves-fare-increases-under-modified-plan
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06-13-2019 - 15:50
synonymouse
No more money for white elephant non-standard gauge. I BART wants money: regauge.
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06-13-2019 - 14:57
synonymouse
It won't be any grab bag of projects when MTC is thru - all the money will go to 5'6".
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06-12-2019 - 10:46
synonymouse
1223. Potrero Yard
https://www.spur.org/events/2019-06-13/touring-muni-s-potrero-yard
No trolley coaches in Manhattan - so anathema to the startichects. Oh the wires!
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06-12-2019 - 10:26
synonymouse
I-5 will indeed be doubled and the Ranch will endorse it. Most of the surface transport activity will be via I-5, tho maybe some with electric vehicles.
Biden(read Mario Cuomo) will shortly be in
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06-12-2019 - 10:09
synonymouse
KTVU reported today some passengers recorded 107 degrees in a BART car, presumbably a Rohr.
BART has to keep its equipment for a very long time due to the gauge fiasco increasing the cost and diffi
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06-11-2019 - 19:10
synonymouse
http://www.ktvu.com/news/ktvu-local-news/salesforce-transit-center-to-reopen-july-1-after-repairs-to-cracked-beams
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06-11-2019 - 18:56
synonymouse
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/4103071-bart-taking-steps-to-prevent-track-troubles-from-heat-after-commute-meltdown/
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06-11-2019 - 10:19
synonymouse
BART needs subway type 5'6" rolling stock and AFAIK India has chosen standard gauge for that type of railway system. So BART is really a white elephant, one of a kind. They will get nothing but bloa
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06-10-2019 - 18:59
synonymouse
IMHO it were the SP what done it. Remember Bechtel promised exotic in 1962, vactrains, etc. and then they came up with supported duorail in desperation, way too dangerously close to what had just bee
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06-10-2019 - 18:41
synonymouse
"Building the Legacy"
That's choice.
Looking at those guys I think of Jesse Unruh. Or maybe Larry Hagman as JR in "Dallas".
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