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04-24-2019 - 15:04
synonymouse
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/4071621-former-muni-instructor-says-he-felt-pressured-to-pass-unqualified-drivers/
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04-23-2019 - 17:54
synonymouse
We'll have to see how high rates go before this all plays out. If you see a doubling of rates there will be mobs of enraged peasants with pitchforks in the streets looking for politicians conjuring w
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04-23-2019 - 17:44
synonymouse
1383. Re: oddball?
St. Charles line gauge is apparently 5'-2 1/2".
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04-23-2019 - 11:52
synonymouse
1384. Re: oddball?
They could also have gone to rubber-tyred metro, which would have been much quieter tho they may have been worried about rubber fires in the tube.
In the end why not exotic? - they do not have exot
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04-23-2019 - 11:40
synonymouse
1385. another BART fatality
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/person-killed-at-rockridge-bart-station-monday-afternoon/
Will they have to come up with some kind of barrier gates to prevent contact with a moving train?
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04-23-2019 - 10:56
synonymouse
IIRC, the City sells Hetch-Hetchy power to some Peninsula cities. A coalition could be assembled to sell the case for purchase of the "wheeling" power line from the dam.
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04-23-2019 - 10:51
synonymouse
1387. Re: oddball?
The St. Charles line dates to 1835 and horsecars. The gauge issue had not been resolved at that early time.
No excuse for Bechtel sabotage, which wanted proprietary and idiosyncratic. They did no
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04-20-2019 - 15:04
synonymouse
Needs the magnet destination of the City; needs Southern Marin cities along 101 new ROW; in Sta. Rosa needs extensive re-routing to directly serve the Civic Center and Kaiser.
Needs to be taken ove
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04-20-2019 - 12:21
synonymouse
https://uknow.uky.edu/professional-news/brent-seales-awarded-neh-grant-rescue-hidden-texts-herculaneum
The hope is to get the excavations restarted and locate further libraries, a reasonable possib
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04-20-2019 - 11:21
synonymouse
https://mothernature.com/2019/04/mayor-pge-assets-are-great-opportunity-to-bring-clean-energy-to-san-francisco/
Makes sense - the City should also look into the PG&E line they pay to "wheel" Hetch-
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04-20-2019 - 11:06
synonymouse
1392. Muni door dragging video
https://sfist.com/2019/04/19/video-shows-elderly-woman-dragged-by-muni-train/
Sure looks like Muni staff warned her not to stick her hand in the door.
Meantime CPUC is apparently investigating t
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04-20-2019 - 10:40
synonymouse
Basements are very rare in California - I wish I had the dough to lift the house and add a basement. You still would need sump pumps around here.
SMART is very poorly conceived; basically a scheme
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04-19-2019 - 11:18
synonymouse
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/aeronautique/suede-la-honte-de-prendre-l-avion-prend-de-l-ampleur_3404685.html
But how many pedestrians has an airplane run over? The automobile has caused way
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04-19-2019 - 11:09
synonymouse
1396. SMART wants more money
https://www.marinij.com/2019/04/17/smart-board-seeks-renewal-of-sales-tax-in-face-of-rising-costs/
I am voting no.
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04-18-2019 - 10:58
synonymouse
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/new-muni-trains-delivered-with-defective-doors/
I wonder why this "hand clamping" was not addressed when it showed up on tests. Could be a conflict with the nee
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04-17-2019 - 10:46
synonymouse
1398. Weird "antiplanner" site
http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=15817#more-15817
"The old streetcars/trams picked up and dropped down passengers from the centre of the street, which was OK at first but became dangerous as traffic fl
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04-17-2019 - 10:31
synonymouse
1399. Bulbous
https://socketsite.com/archives/2019/04/salesforce-transit-center-on-track-for-a-june-reopening.html
I have never seen this thing in person so I did not quite grasp the true extent of butt-ugly. T
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04-16-2019 - 10:15
synonymouse
1400. Re: Notre Dame
Remember what Don Vito Corleone said in Godfather I: "I am a superstitious man. I do not believe in accidents."
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04-15-2019 - 10:28
synonymouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vvx8fmBP0
On KTVU this story was buried when it merits front page. Useless Bay Area media.
I assume the bus has some kind of fossil fuel but I dunno if that ca
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04-13-2019 - 19:10
synonymouse
No BART to SFO no homeless in the airport. That's how they are getting there. If you put the gist of the whole article in the title why bother reading the article?
I doubt Kopp ever imagined thin
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04-13-2019 - 10:21
synonymouse
1403. BART to SFO
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Homeless-surge-at-SF-airport-Police-contacts-13764148.php
I suspect Quentin Kopp never anticipated this.
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04-12-2019 - 11:52
synonymouse
1404. Re: Crunican goes
Undermined - especially by your putative friends like MTC-SPUR. BART is ghettoing and the process could worsen with a large increase in the cost of PG&E electricity, meaning fare hikes and more gate
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04-12-2019 - 10:48
synonymouse
1405. Crunican goes
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/barts-top-official-grace-crunican-announces-departure/
That's what happens when you critique Bechtel gauge.
Reminds one of what befell Roelof Van Ark when he
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04-10-2019 - 10:30
synonymouse
Subway-surface is certainly not a new idea - Cincinnati tried it a century ago. SF attempted bond measures to tunnel on major lines in the thirties but failed, in large part due to opposition by the
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04-09-2019 - 10:18
synonymouse
1407. Bechtel Gauge mayhem
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/08/bart-train-hits-person-el-cerrito-del-norte-richmond-stations-closed/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/08/man-sought-in-daly-city-bart-station-assault/
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04-08-2019 - 10:46
synonymouse
1409. Richmond hating on BNSF
https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2019/03/20/bnsf-plan-to-reactivate-rail-line-in-richmond-park-faces-opposition/
Let's all lawyer up.
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04-08-2019 - 10:42
synonymouse
1410. Bakersfield #39?
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/these-40-cities-could-see-housing-prices-decline-survey-says.html
I was under the impression that Newsom and Liccardo, et al were planning to ship all the cubicle sl
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