So under UP PSR SMART could argue the UP is not interested in supplying them with a few cars of grain any more and de facto stop the freight service?
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Of course the climate is changing as it has numerous times over the aeons due to various reasons. Right now it is caused by human activity of which burning fossil and producing CO2 is just a part. T
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Better mockery than pins to "voodoo" the BART Xmas toy railcar if you know the model's scale to prototype set the scale wheelbase to standard.
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All due respect, I suggest you guys are missing the all-important quotidian reality here: this entire megaproject is not ultimately about transport needs or futurism; it is about the profits of real e
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So you would have the San Jose Area Rapid Transit and the Fresno Area Rapid Transit. What is missing is the Palmdale Area Rapid Transit - presumably Antonovich and Palmdale won't be too happy about t
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I was thinking of ventilation issues with diesels in long tunnels. But I guess they do negotiate the Moffat Tunnel-been thru that one several times. And steam in the old days and the SP with cab-for
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https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/20-heures/video-sncf-a-bord-du-ter-paris-mulhouse-voyage-debout-et-colle-serre_3077971.html
There is not much technical info here but it appears that
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/29/california-gov-elect-gavin-newsom-faces-pressure-to-cut-77b-rail-plan.html
Trump will be ousted and Pelosi will see to it a federal cash pipeline is opened to PB(by
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https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/environnement/energie-les-eoliennes-de-la-discorde_3076429.html
Noisy and encircling but the Mayor likes the money and so do the farmers on whose land they sit.
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Historical, and sometimes luckily. If BART had gotten its rotten hands on Muni or what is now Caltrain, both the latter would have been trashed and replaced with Bechtel gauge and Muni's streetcars a
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Let's hire a highly compensated new team to watch over and monitor our highly-paid(PB) team in place and make sure they punch in in the morning and punch out a nite and don't go off premises in betwee
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The basic lines and language of this position paper from Arnold seem to date from a few months back.
In its current iteration SMART is not fixable as a transit op; but it can be of course "expensed
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Interestingly many of the Gilet Jaunes say they up to now have been apolitical and never demonstrated before. Lots of women, old people, retirees and from rural areas and small towns that have seen
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Two strong long-term factors here: economies trend to cyclic with eventual times of overproduction; and really big companies, i.e. quasi monopolies like Amazon, will push automation and robotics ever
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And it could get a lot more interesting with Trump ousted, say by next summer, and a Pelosi-Bernie coalition in power shortly thereafter.
But I'd have to vote for Bernie if he promised to forgive s
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https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-judge-201801120-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
"The rail authority says it designed the route through an exhaustive environmental process."
Yea
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SMART's operating losses will only increase as it tries to extend towards Cloverdale, in more sparsely populated territory with limited patronage potential as opposed to south of Larkspur.
Fortunat
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At the end Petronius(presumed author of the Satyrica)was certainly at quits with Nero:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/tacitus/TacitusAnnals16.html
[16.18] and [16.19]
The ominous line defi
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As a child little Gaius' sadistic tendencies were so apparent his father Germanicus worried for Rome lest his son would come to power. He was right.
Maybe you are thinking of Nero, for whom there
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