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03-02-2019 - 15:56
synonymouse
1501. Rough week for Elon
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-crash/nhtsa-probing-two-fatal-tesla-crashes-in-florida-since-sunday-agency-idUSKCN1QJ0MC
"The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Monday the 2016 Tesla Mode
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03-02-2019 - 11:30
synonymouse
1502. skyrise cracks
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/01/cracked-windows-found-inside-san-franciscos-salesforce-tower/
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03-01-2019 - 12:28
synonymouse
1503. Barnum country
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-05/san-francisco-selling-bonds-for-broken-2-2-billion-bus-terminal
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03-01-2019 - 11:56
synonymouse
1504. Muni falters
http://www.sfexaminer.com/muni-subway-slowed-walking-speed-thursday-rush-hour/
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02-25-2019 - 11:45
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Transbay-Terminal-yet-another-problem-Train-13638836.php
This constricted functionality comes up sans CAHSR trains. First time they thought o
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02-23-2019 - 20:09
synonymouse
As to Berkshire-Buffett remember Godfather1: "The Don is slipping"
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02-21-2019 - 15:27
synonymouse
I finally remembered who must be the "eminence grise" in Newsom's braintrust: Willie Brown, his long time mentor. Newsom is not a train fan. He likes high profile and hot button limousine liberal "
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02-20-2019 - 18:42
synonymouse
Hey, I spent about 10 minutes putting together that same line. But when it comes to producing "de la merde avec du poin dedans" please see the just departed Mr. Richards. He could really suck up to
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02-20-2019 - 18:20
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Trump probably is as much turned off by this debacle as the rest of us. Why jump on a California train that's headed off the rails.
It's times like this when even limousine liberals start fallin
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02-20-2019 - 13:32
synonymouse
Spain-Morocco rail line - Iberian gauge or standard gauge? How about sacred Bechtel gauge?
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02-19-2019 - 21:54
synonymouse
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/02/13/the-california-hsr-bombshell-redux/
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02-19-2019 - 21:22
synonymouse
He did not take a TGV yesterday:
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/sncf/tgv-des-voyageurs-ont-mis-pres-de-10-heures-pour-un-paris-nice_3196637.html
No such thing as perfection. Oh
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02-18-2019 - 21:40
synonymouse
1517. Re: High Speed Asphalt
How many more lanes thru Sta. Clarita and Lebec?
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02-14-2019 - 13:27
synonymouse
The government has the means to make the Ranch an offer they can't refuse.
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02-14-2019 - 10:43
synonymouse
2 comments:
BART does not want that Caltrain extension to the TBT and has always fought it; it gets in the way of their tube to Geary and other possible imperial schemes.
Note the foto of the vi
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02-14-2019 - 10:30
synonymouse
None of these news stories or opinion pieces reveal any familiarity with the realities on the ground of California transport. There is a niche for rail passenger - that's why we still have some Amtra
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02-13-2019 - 14:09
synonymouse
"Worst Practice #1: Legally defining project parameters in ways that can never be changed."
Balderdash - Kopp et al wanted to specify parameters precisely to prevent bait and switch, aka the inevi
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02-13-2019 - 10:30
synonymouse
A TEE or Intercity dumbdown of CAHSR will prove a failure. All you have to do is look at France, the country in the world most like the US. Every body and every burg wants TGV, not regional which lo
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02-12-2019 - 14:11
synonymouse
The French did make a proposal; it was turned down because it was predicated on Altamont, I-5, Tejon. The default direct routing which all the civilians use to go from NorCal to SoCal. Tehachapi det
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02-11-2019 - 10:16
synonymouse
1525. Re: It's the Ranch, Jake
I you go back and start systematically reading a California newspaper going from the 19th century into the 20th century you will detect a steady movement of interest and emphasis from rail to highway.
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02-09-2019 - 10:08
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1527. Re: It's the Ranch, Jake
I think the big problem with the Santa Fe proposed Tejon line was the timing. By the WWI era internal combustion was already coming on strong and the Santa Fe and the banks could foresee truck and au
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02-08-2019 - 09:31
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1528. It's the Ranch, Jake
https://www.hcn.org/articles/deserts-was-californias-great-environmental-compromise-worth-it#nws=mcnewsletter
So Barry Zoeller wants to build out his tracts in the dreaded Convergence Zone where th
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02-07-2019 - 21:17
synonymouse
1529. Feral pigs vs. TGV's
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/sncf/sangliers-la-bete-noire-de-la-sncf_3180013.html
One SNCF solution: piggy path, porker trail.
But I would have made the inspection pits a lit
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02-07-2019 - 19:13
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/BART-Amtrak-assess-building-new-shared-transbay-13592133.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result
Amtrak? Naah - total BS. Bechtel Gauge to Infinity and
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