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06-01-2019 - 18:56
synonymouse
There could be an issue of wheel tyre profile and the flange depth of grooved girder rail they deploy.
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05-31-2019 - 11:01
synonymouse
1262. TTC - July?
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/30/18644770/transbay-transit-center-reopening-opening-date-peer-review-salesforce
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05-31-2019 - 10:48
synonymouse
I am burnt out on it too. It has been hard for me to accept that the Bay Area really does deserve BART. I had hoped for a better outcome and a more felicitous future than patronage machine Manhattan
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05-30-2019 - 11:54
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Transbay-Transit-Center-prepares-for-reopening-13902462.php
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05-30-2019 - 11:24
synonymouse
1265. BART 3rd rail grass fire
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/05/29/fire-on-north-berkeley-bart-tracks-stops-richmond-line-service-bus-bridge-in-place
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05-30-2019 - 11:00
synonymouse
India has chosen standard gauge for its metro stock. For the same obvious reasons that DC and Atlanta also chose standard gauge shortly after BART.
What treachery Bechtel was up to at the time was
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05-29-2019 - 23:18
synonymouse
But why block out the perp's face when the video shows him in the act? Guilty as hell.
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05-29-2019 - 21:37
synonymouse
The Bay Area would have been better off without BART.
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05-29-2019 - 21:24
synonymouse
Then take the white elephant off life support and let it experience the survival of the fittest test.
Or make it an exotic museum op, like the Seattle monorail or the Schwebebahn.
They cannot ev
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05-29-2019 - 14:55
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Feds-holding-up-critical-BART-project-as-grant-13904428.php
They could re-direct the $900 million from GavinRail.
Actually MTC is making a good argume
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05-29-2019 - 10:27
synonymouse
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/4093938-bart-issues-warning-after-400-device-thefts-reported-through-april/
Why block out the face of the perp?
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05-28-2019 - 18:07
synonymouse
I gather it is an amalgam of various venues on LACMTA metro. Comes off very impressive - kinda how I would imagine SMART as it should be.
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05-27-2019 - 10:52
synonymouse
Just the paint job kicks BART's tinny grey cattlecar ass
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05-27-2019 - 10:38
synonymouse
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/BART-Elon-Musk-Twitter-tunnel-Bay-Boring-Company-13896393.php?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=063f9b37b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=
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05-26-2019 - 19:42
synonymouse
1276. Re: SMART goes south
I used to live there in the seventies. It used to flood good down there in SR where they are replacing the tracks.
Yeah, I know the Canal and Marin City.
Basic Marin Wheels - that goes way back
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05-26-2019 - 12:06
synonymouse
Figure the good ol' boy insiders will kiss and make up before the SMART tax hike goes on the ballot.
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05-26-2019 - 11:55
synonymouse
1278. Memorial Day OT
https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/bpfahc/burger_king_to_deliver_whoppers_to_la_drivers/
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05-26-2019 - 11:48
synonymouse
1279. SMART goes south
https://www.marinij.com/2019/05/19/san-rafael-braces-for-smart-construction-traffic-mire/
Those Marin ritchie-rich motorists really are belly-achers. Oh the disruption and inconvenience to those B
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05-26-2019 - 10:40
synonymouse
1280. Re: Keep it simple
These days I think it is going to be very hard to sell any cut-and-cover in a non-ghetto residential area like the Sunset. In fact 3rd & Kearny may have been downgraded as a Central Subway routing be
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05-25-2019 - 11:09
synonymouse
1281. Re: Keep it simple
I guess the lease-purchase trick was an urban legend.
Muni did some pretty crazy things over the years - I think those postwar mayors just wanted to get rid of it entirely - Lapham, Robinson, Chris
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05-24-2019 - 20:33
synonymouse
1282. Re: Keep it simple
One thing a subway on 19th Ave. would not do is link the N and L lines, something that has been mooted for a long time. In the very early 70's Jack Woods proposed various routes: 20th Ave, Sunset and
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05-24-2019 - 16:40
synonymouse
1283. Re: Keep it simple
The Geary subway-surface in my plan would tunnel out from downtown and the TBT via the mezzanine level at 3rd & Kearny and emerge in the general area of Webster, a wide street there courtesy of Urban
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05-24-2019 - 12:13
synonymouse
https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/la-watchdog/17715-ca-s-high-speed-train-may-never-leave-the-station-trump-tells-newsom-no-mas
That elevated reminds me of the Embarcadero Freeway stub that sto
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05-24-2019 - 11:56
synonymouse
1285. AAA not gonna like this
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/sf-explores-banning-right-turns-at-red-lights/
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05-24-2019 - 11:51
synonymouse
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/BART-Considers-Fare-Gate-Changes-to-Stop-Fare-Evaders-510350111.html
SPUR has to love this so Manhattan.
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05-24-2019 - 11:16
synonymouse
1287. Re: Keep it simple
Why waste money on SMART when a simple bus shuttle will do? GGT wanted to pave the NWP ROW.
Ditch doodlebugs and BoscoRail NWP and go to genuine electric light rail to the City via the GG Bridge.
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05-23-2019 - 18:58
synonymouse
Every now and then a bechtel gauge fanboy in toney Marin, for instance in the IJ letters to the editor, trots out BART out Geary, thence 19th Avenue and on over the GG Bridge to ritchie-richland. Nev
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05-23-2019 - 16:36
synonymouse
Marin City deserves a station more than Cloverdale.
SMART puts the moron in oxymoron.
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05-23-2019 - 16:27
synonymouse
Thanks.
The report is pretty detailed but not everything ordered in layman's terms. I assume the SAC RT photo is of a Sacramento light rail project bridge for comparison?
Maybe the photo from t
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