I hope everything goes well and according to plan with the 4014 no matter what personalities are involved. I fear if there is an embarrassing meltdown someone at the very top will get miffed for the
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http://www.sfexaminer.com/muni-forced-cut-funding-accelerated-train-purchase-favor-solar-power-merchant-bailout-fund/
Maybe too much coke and hookers(see Adachi)have taken their toll on SF municipa
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The modal choice was really important in the case of Oahu transit; they sure seemed to have not thought it out.
If subway is a problem why even start using ghetto BART as a template for HART?
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So I read the article - sounds like a typical day at MTC-BART.
There was very little technical data in the piece - like it is steel wheel, 3rd rail and driverless. No excuse for that dumbdown from
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I'll read the article later but a couple of decisions have been operative in Kama-aina-land for some time. First they decided against any at grade street-running and second they wanted to take advant
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https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ports-automation-labor-20190321-story.html
When the economy droops there will be moves to sell off, divest, privatize ports and the new owners will cut payrol
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/two-gop-bills-seek-to-redirect-funds-from-calif-bullet-train-project.html
I wonder if and when the local Party honchos break ranks and let BART-MTC put out their han
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http://www.greencaltrain.com/2019/03/peskin-suggests-caltrain-might-take-over-downtown-extension-governance-study-continues-while-project-stays-stalled/
For sure don't let MTC have anything to do w
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/crashed-boeing-jets-lacked-key-safety-features-that-were-add-ons.html
Round up the usual suspects and lawyer up good.
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In retrospect I should cited MTC perhaps instead of SPUR but in truth the latter has expanded its vision to the entire Bay Area and of course MTC is now domiciled in SF instead of the Eastbay.
The
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https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Transbay-Executive-Outlines-Failures-That-May-Have-Led-To-SF-Transit-Terminal-Closure-507183691.html?akmobile=o
Somehow my innate skepticism says patches w
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http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-transit-officials-begin-studying-car-free-streets/
I'd select Powell St. at least from California downtown.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/14/not-to-code-cracked-beams-at-transbay-terminal-preventable-official-says/
Anything to protect the Pelli startichects.
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https://sfbay.ca/2019/03/07/ceremony-kicks-off-two-years-of-construction-toward-geary-bus-rapid-transit/
And tearing down a pedestrian overpass? How stupid and how many old people are going to get
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/morgan-stanley-electric-vehicles-will-cost-millions-of-auto-jobs.html
Why you see diesel manufacturers fighting back around the world against "transition".
That w
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Muni is not doing anything on Geary because of BART-MTC-SPUR machinations.
Bechtel gauge not compatible with Doug Bosco's freight schemes. Besides toney Marin is not at all interested in ghetto ca
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Brunel had a 7' gauge railway up and running in Britain in the 19th century. It worked - it is just not interchangeable. There is nothing magical about standard gauge - neither bad nor good - it is
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https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/kern-supervisors-approve-total-abandonment-of-the-high-speed-rail
Big winners: Tejon Ranch Co., whose strategy has worked perfectly. Now no encroachment on e
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