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06-10-2019 - 18:34
synonymouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Metro
So the largest city in India builds a metro-rapid transit and, guess what, it is standard gauge, OCS at 25kv AC. Who would have thunk it? Top speed low
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06-10-2019 - 11:39
synonymouse
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/06/10/100-billion-transit-tax-bay-area-bart-caltrain.html
P.T. Barnum's wisecrack is never dated.
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06-09-2019 - 20:01
synonymouse
Jerry Brown fought every attempt to investigate this scandal tooth and nail. His departure has brought it out into the open.
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06-09-2019 - 10:22
synonymouse
https://californiaglobe.com/legislature/high-speed-rails-top-consultant-suspended-after-assemblyman-requests-ethics-investigation/
But do you think that Patterson, a Repub, would find the mojo to o
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06-08-2019 - 11:43
synonymouse
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/06/07/man-files-lawsuit-against-bart-after-being-hit-by-speeding-train/
Lawyer calls for platform gate system to prevent people from falling onto the tracks.
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06-08-2019 - 11:08
synonymouse
This is couch change by comparison to any BART project.
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06-07-2019 - 10:06
synonymouse
1241. BART issues
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/06/barts-transbay-tube-closed-after-reports-of-damaged-pge-pipeline/
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06-06-2019 - 21:14
synonymouse
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/climat/transports-les-trains-de-nuit-renaissent-en-autriche_3475069.html
Fares somewhat higher and the operator refurbished equipment to reduce costs and mostly va
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06-06-2019 - 21:00
synonymouse
I just assumed - and you know what that entails.
So I'll have to blame it on Guardino and the SVLG - somebody has to be putting on some extreme pressure against the obvious choice of Altamont. It
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06-06-2019 - 17:22
synonymouse
Liccardo is one of the key people demanding Pacheco. He is a TIGBY - train in Gilroy back yard.
Maybe the UP could float running a doodlebug on the trackage in question and let the fur fly.
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06-05-2019 - 17:25
synonymouse
I messed up and did a followup on this in the topic above.
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06-05-2019 - 17:24
synonymouse
Sorry this belongs to the post below on the bus fire in Portola Valley.
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06-05-2019 - 17:22
synonymouse
It was an Apple commute bus that was totally incinerasted:
https://abc7news.com/bus-fire-shuts-lanes-on-interstate-280-near-portola-valley/5332864/
I'd have to wonder these things are firetraps
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06-05-2019 - 16:53
synonymouse
1248. Re: Coal strike
Possibly you are thinking of 1946, which upset Truman and IIRC inspired the Taft-Hartley legislation.
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06-05-2019 - 11:27
synonymouse
1249. Buses pretty flammable
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bus-fire-Sparks-Grass-Fire-on-I-280-in-Portola-Valley-510869791.html
I wonder what kind of fuel used here?
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06-05-2019 - 10:58
synonymouse
1250. Re: Not really
All due respect, I suggest that BART, perhaps uniquely, is a case of transit overinvestment.
And when it comes to corruption PB under any other name is sad but ongoing for so many years. Still it
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06-04-2019 - 16:12
synonymouse
Muni does both with servomotored ascending and descending stairwell steps. So flat for high platform and stairwell for street.
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06-04-2019 - 16:04
synonymouse
2:40 not 3 hours
In effect there is no judicial oversight over these projects; the California courts are so politicized they will never get in the way of a Party scheme. So if you vote for somethi
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06-04-2019 - 11:27
synonymouse
1253. e-scooter go boom
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/skip-pulls-fleet-off-sf-streets-after-scooter-catches-fire-in-d-c/
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06-04-2019 - 11:01
synonymouse
I believe in the past conditions were much worse than today. In the Jesse Unruh and later Willie Brown era this sort of thing would have gone unnoticed. Remember it took a while for Feinstein's husb
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06-03-2019 - 19:41
synonymouse
By heavy rail do you mean something like electrified Caltrain, AAR compatible?
And by totally grade separated are you talking driverless ala HART? NYC style subways are not only very expensive to
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06-03-2019 - 16:22
synonymouse
1256. Re: AQMD mandate
The Gavinator could pardon prisoner #4014.
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06-03-2019 - 13:01
synonymouse
I believe the anti-aviation people are talking about shorter distances; France has a great many small airports with relatively little traffic but requiring subsidy.
The lesser lines have been left
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06-03-2019 - 11:30
synonymouse
1258. Re: AQMD mandate
no "papal" dispensation or indulgence from Gavin?
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06-03-2019 - 11:24
synonymouse
I assume the OC would be looking long and hard at lo-floor - certainly helps with old people and handicapped and loading. I dunno if it is possible to do lo-floor on longer distance multi-coupled LRV
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06-03-2019 - 11:17
synonymouse
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/greve-a-air-france/transports-les-vols-interieurs-bientot-supprimes_3471751.html
Problem could be some of these routes on the ground are either in ba
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