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12-17-2018 - 10:24
synonymouse
Most of the business on this line will be Caltrain.
To the great consternation of BART-MTC and Amalgamated.
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12-16-2018 - 22:56
synonymouse
I think they were trying to imitate a bus with the single-ended PCC. It does make the seats simpler. Rollover seats are cool but they would probably be outlawed for some reason now. Muni's double e
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12-16-2018 - 10:48
synonymouse
An inadequate 3rd & Townsend station would indeed seem to cause real impediments in the future. Have they considered the option of veering off north of that station into a tube to the East Bay? That
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12-14-2018 - 10:06
synonymouse
1624. Only in SF bizarro
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3994129-man-rescued-from-atop-s-f-muni-train-at-castro-station/
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12-14-2018 - 09:59
synonymouse
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/13/how-the-new-salesforce-transit-centers-steel-beams-cracked/
The tentative repair "plan will include bolting steel plates onto both sides of the girder to rein
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12-13-2018 - 12:24
synonymouse
https://nypost.com/2018/12/13/several-injured-in-high-speed-train-accident-in-turkey/
I dunno if this involves what would be termed state of the art HSR or not.
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12-13-2018 - 10:28
synonymouse
https://sf.streetsblog.org/2008/12/11/san-francisco-mayor-to-nyc-eat-your-heart-out/
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12-13-2018 - 10:23
synonymouse
It is said that because of the strike-slip nature of the San Andreas an 8 on the Richter scale would be about the largest tremor possible along that fault. 1857 Ft. Tejon quake pretty close to maxima
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12-13-2018 - 10:19
synonymouse
https://www.streetcar.org/
The Market St. Ry. #5 turned right onto McAllister from the curb lane; Muni lines in the center lanes.
Muni should relay tracks on 11th St. with a half grand-union at
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12-12-2018 - 10:11
synonymouse
http://www.sfexaminer.com/marina-district-may-board-central-subway-extension/?pd00=cbc64a26-6fbc-4700-ba87-332df52612ee&pd01=e1e48877-051d-471e-bbb9-ae621b49198d&pd02=pl-search&pd99=64e0e2da-56fc-4b9d
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12-11-2018 - 10:02
synonymouse
To borrow a phrase from I believe Jimmy Carter CAHSR as promised to the voters in Prop 1a is the "moral equivalent" of HypeLoop. Yes, a bleeding edge 200mph HSR flying over the Valley between SF and
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12-10-2018 - 23:49
synonymouse
But then you would not be proceeding thru the center of the known universe and one of the richest places around, courtesy of the instant bazillionaires. A whole lotta baksheesh to lay on the Party.
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12-10-2018 - 10:05
synonymouse
Doubt the Chandlers are coming back. OMG Global Warming
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12-10-2018 - 10:02
synonymouse
https://abc30.com/politics/gavin-newsom-visits-fresno-calls-for-fresh-start-on-high-speed-rail/4856021/#nws=mcnewsletter
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12-10-2018 - 09:56
synonymouse
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-centennial-development-20181208-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
The Chandlers must be rotating undergound.
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12-09-2018 - 13:34
synonymouse
1637. Raise the wages?
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/12/6/18129164/muni-sfmta-driver-shortage-meltdown-wages-vallie-brown
Unless you have money lying around fare increases will be required. Then the vicious cycle of patron
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12-08-2018 - 00:09
synonymouse
Where have I head this before? We have to destroy the village in order to save it.
I'll be doggone and long gone by the time Bechtel gauge should penetrate the Northbay. You'll have to kill off a
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12-07-2018 - 15:15
synonymouse
Brunel put some considerable thought and work into his 7' gauge and was outraged when it was decided to regauge to standard. Remember BART cars are the same width as MARTA's.
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12-07-2018 - 15:11
synonymouse
Not news to Hemminger nor Wunderman. Why do you think they were upset about dropping the extension to Livermore? But that was just temporizing.
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12-07-2018 - 10:23
synonymouse
The message is obvious: in a very large country with a legacy installed base of 5'6" railways Delhi's tech experts(equivalent of Bechtel or PB)selected standard gauge and rejected Bechtel gauge even
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12-06-2018 - 20:48
synonymouse
1642. Making India Great Again
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/03/17/470843894/india-s-metro-subway-system-in-delhi
"Nonetheless, he admits that the Delhi subway is 'a great engineering marvel.' It used state of t
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12-06-2018 - 14:01
synonymouse
To paraphrase the immortal words of Strother Martin: What we have h'yuh is a failure to prioritize. Fixing CAHSR nor run-thru trackage at LAUS nor InterCity or TEE level passenger train service betw
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12-06-2018 - 11:02
synonymouse
California lives to spend foolishly and I don't think you have seen anything yet, with the supermajority and Pelosi back in power.. Think BART and the NYC subway system.
One complication here is
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12-05-2018 - 22:48
synonymouse
Expanding Potrero Yard to enable conversion of diesel bus lines to electric won't materially encourage more population. Now deploying Bechtel gauge 10 cattlecar trains on Geary will surely be accompa
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12-05-2018 - 19:40
synonymouse
If some drivers stayed there, that would definitely be live-work.
Potrero was originally a carhouse, which reminds me that ca. 1973 Jack Woods entertained suggestions as to how to deal with moving
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12-05-2018 - 10:34
synonymouse
http://www.sfexaminer.com/temporary-transbay-terminal-looking-bit-less-temporary-return-clipper-machines/
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12-05-2018 - 10:21
synonymouse
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-plans-build-housing-top-bus-yard-first-kind-proposal/
An important project but the housing questionable. Too many potential conflicts. Geary-Presidio should undergo a
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12-04-2018 - 17:45
synonymouse
It were the rats what graffiti'd the 4 BART cars. Quite a feat - not easy to push down that spray can button with rodent teeth.
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12-03-2018 - 18:31
synonymouse
1650. MIxed message
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oscar-Grant-mural-at-BART-s-Fruitvale-Station-13435806.php
Maybe instead a memorial plaque listing all the people who died on BART premises(with room for
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