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12-29-2018 - 21:34
synonymouse
A place like SF is well suited for trolley buses - it has steep hills, heavy passenger loads, lots of stops and very little freeway speeds on most of the bus lines. The big problem has always been th
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12-29-2018 - 15:26
synonymouse
How many have experienced battery fires? That could pose a real problem inside a bus barn.
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12-29-2018 - 12:42
synonymouse
I could really see going off wire where the overhead is very complicated and operationally sketchy, say the #38 on lower Market if it were converted to trolley coach.
The Europeans don't seem to ha
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12-29-2018 - 12:09
synonymouse
But won't they want to recharge at Daly City?
And besides wouldn't it be nice for the Daly City city fathers to eat some dirt in this epoch of OMG Global Warming and get some overhead lines. Charl
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12-29-2018 - 10:52
synonymouse
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/muni-forward
Read under 14R Mission Rapid. Says goes to Daly City BART and to be converted to trolley coach. Anything happening here? - Daly City always had a hissy
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12-28-2018 - 13:04
synonymouse
And the Bechtel gauge entity would be guaranteed Geary as restitution?
And you would still have to mollify that center of the FANG multiverse flush with heavy nouveaux riches.
But it still stand
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12-28-2018 - 10:49
synonymouse
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-pol-ca-bullet-train-future-20181228-story.html
"Experts close to the project estimate future costs could be covered roughly by a 20-cent-a-gallon gas tax
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12-25-2018 - 10:10
synonymouse
I did not put that sentence together very well. What I meant was I knew some NWP equipment was sent south where it would not have been compatible if 1200 volts.
On the other hand I do recall that
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12-25-2018 - 00:21
synonymouse
Don't know where I got the idea the NWP 3rd rail was 1200volts. I believe some of the cars went to LA where they would not have been compatible.
Sound Transit went with 1200vdc; I don't agree with
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12-24-2018 - 10:27
synonymouse
1601. More CAHSR kvetching
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/big-valley/article223441880.html#nws=mcnewsletter
California drank the PB koolaid PalmdaleRail flavor just as the Bay Area continues to allow itself to
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12-24-2018 - 10:19
synonymouse
1602. Re: Lead flying on BART
AFAIK the NWP interurban in Marin 1200vdc 3rd rail was totally exposed.
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12-23-2018 - 22:45
synonymouse
In the 19th century some street railway systems were laid in the US to broad gauge. Early on when the gauge issue remained unsettled. New Orleans, Philadelphia and others. The PCC truck was designe
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12-23-2018 - 09:28
synonymouse
https://abc7news.com/reports-of-possible-shooting-near-daly-city-bart-station/4945166/
Hits Samtrans bus instead.
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12-21-2018 - 10:56
synonymouse
1605. Lead flying on BART
https://abc7news.com/1-hospitalized-suspect-at-large-after-pistol-whipping-at-macarthur-bart-station/4943290/
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12-21-2018 - 10:39
synonymouse
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-elon-musk-boring-tunnel-mass-transit-20181220-story.html
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12-21-2018 - 10:19
synonymouse
https://www.kqed.org/news/11714160/fppc-asks-for-criminal-investigation-into-bart-spending-during-2016-bond-campaign
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12-19-2018 - 13:28
synonymouse
Is the Boring tunnel crossection large enough to accommodate a streetcar and overhead?
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12-19-2018 - 10:44
synonymouse
The anti-trolley bus vendetta dates to the sixties, well before Feinstein as mayor. The ca. 1968 bond measure propaganda to kill off the streetcars and replace the M with a quasi-BART subway also rai
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12-19-2018 - 10:35
synonymouse
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/tesla-model-s-catches-on-fire-twice-in-the-south-bay/1666229133
Apparently battery temperature was detected at around 180 degrees.
Any battery bus ever catch
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12-18-2018 - 13:35
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Ride-hailing-companies-fly-off-with-BART-s-13470466.php
MTC diverted the funding from the TBT tunnel and Caltrain electrification to BART to
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12-18-2018 - 11:36
synonymouse
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/12/14/18141385/tjpa-cracked-girders-transit-center-weld-holes
"But when SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin asked whether this meant the weld holes were ultimately to blame for the
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12-18-2018 - 11:23
synonymouse
1614. Shopping cart rides free
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3995933-bart-makes-progress-but-still-battling-drugs-and-filth-in-san-francisco-stations/
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12-17-2018 - 20:20
synonymouse
An absolute disaster to add to a long list in European history.
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12-17-2018 - 20:01
synonymouse
At least it has paint unlike the aluminium grey entity.
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12-17-2018 - 12:28
synonymouse
1618. Re: Another HSR Analysis
Didn't Putin promise to retire once?
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12-17-2018 - 12:21
synonymouse
1619. Re: Another HSR Analysis
Real paint thinner is illegal in Cali.
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12-17-2018 - 11:12
synonymouse
1620. Re: Another HSR Analysis
Utter nonsense. Gavin is leaning strongly to the left as is the whole Democratic Party in California and in the whole country. Why do you think Nancy Pelosi is running the show?
Figure Trump to b
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