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11-19-2018 - 09:45
synonymouse
If survival of the fittest always applies how come real dumbshits or pervs regularly get to the top of the political heap?
Just for laffs let's throw out for example Neville Chamberlain or Gaius Ju
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11-18-2018 - 22:48
synonymouse
Freight cannot handle the flyover ramp gradients than streetcars can climb easily.
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11-18-2018 - 21:46
synonymouse
The vacuous optimism that accompanies the hallmark stupidity and corruption of an entrenched patronage machine.
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11-18-2018 - 21:37
synonymouse
And if it is a big truck stalled across the tracks?
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11-18-2018 - 11:48
synonymouse
Electric light rail vehicles operating at 55mph top speed in urban areas should be able to stop faster.
Along with ditching the freight then you can deploy flyovers at congested spots. Something l
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11-18-2018 - 10:06
synonymouse
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8964178-181/pedestrian-struck-by-smart-train?sba=AAS
senior moment?
I assume some pressure will in time on SMART to reconstitute or at least rethink. How much
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11-16-2018 - 19:05
synonymouse
Sure hope they bring one of the locomotives from Cheyenne to California as part of the sesquicentennial at Promontory. It could turn out the last opportunity.
Kinda feel in the gut steam does not
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11-16-2018 - 18:54
synonymouse
"all the nimby's, wannabee's, whackos, and the politicians who pander to them....."
Is Barry Zoeller in that number?
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11-16-2018 - 14:41
synonymouse
Northeast on a line that is supposed to go northwest.
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11-16-2018 - 11:34
synonymouse
BART-MTC-SPUR et al are insisting ground breaking in 10 years. They have total control of the media and the zombie electorate in the Bay Area. Haven't you notice the election results?
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11-16-2018 - 09:57
synonymouse
1692. Build another Bay Bridge
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/2nd-BART-transbay-tube-Leaders-say-it-s-a-13397070.php
Standard gauge? No way; they would have already started preparing to regauge. MTC has a 5'6" har
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11-16-2018 - 09:48
synonymouse
I am waiting to see any significant changes. The sheer fact that a number of quite affluent residents plus a number of well-placed politicians was unable to stop the PB route Palmdale to Burbank, at
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11-15-2018 - 15:06
synonymouse
IMHO BART is more profoundly screwed up(likely right up to its scrapping date in the murky future)than PBCAHSR, albeit the latter's several major route effups. And the Bay Area zombie voters will thr
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11-15-2018 - 12:17
synonymouse
https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article221697410.html
I wonder if there are any 50 mile detours? There should be longer coverage on France 2 JT 20 heures tonite.
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11-15-2018 - 10:09
synonymouse
https://abc7news.com/traffic/bart-considering-2nd-transbay-tube-24-hour-service-report-says/4694048/
This is bogus - when it comes down to doling out contracts to the cronies MTC will make sure it
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11-15-2018 - 10:00
synonymouse
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article221653225.html#nws=mcnewsletter
On the other hand he has demonstrated little interest in transport in the past so a lot could go
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11-13-2018 - 19:08
synonymouse
1700. Re: Fun Fact
Clem, I sure hope things go your way but from my perspective the guys running this thing have their feet set in more concrete than Luca Brasi.
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11-13-2018 - 12:58
synonymouse
Evidently Kopp has said he opposed the Palmdale-Tehachapi Detour, the worst mistake of CAHSR, but was outvoted.
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11-13-2018 - 12:28
synonymouse
Whatever corporate name is on the check after "Pay to the order of" it is going to read the Democratic Party.
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11-13-2018 - 11:15
synonymouse
The Southwest is prone to periods of lengthy drought.
Why the Mesa Verde people had to displace to the area of the Rio Grande and abandon their pueblo. There was too little water to survive there.
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11-13-2018 - 11:07
synonymouse
Prissy starchitects oppose masonry buildings except of course for skyrises.
Masonry optimized for seismic would be fire, rot and termite resistant and hold the whitewash paint better which is all y
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11-13-2018 - 10:20
synonymouse
The Santa Fe did want to construct what would have amounted to a railroad subdivision at Tejon prior to WWI but did not have the resources in a time when you had the rr's taken over by the government
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11-13-2018 - 10:09
synonymouse
1706. Mo' money for PB-Tutor
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-cost-20181112-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
Now that the Party enjoys a supermajority Gavin can proceed with copious new taxes to mount the
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11-12-2018 - 19:04
synonymouse
1707. SNCF spins off Ouibus
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/sncf/ouibus-la-sncf-vend-sa-filiale-a-blablacar_3030957.html
French railways lost money on their attempt to run long distance buses. The drivers are
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11-12-2018 - 10:44
synonymouse
Right subdivision to not be built.
The State should purchase the Ranch and turn it into a park. Biomass against Jerry's patented OMG Global Warming.
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11-10-2018 - 15:04
synonymouse
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article221385910.html
Let's start with quashing the Tejon Mountain Village including its holiest of holies golf course, tentatively in the way of
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11-08-2018 - 23:22
synonymouse
Taking off from "dilatory":
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dilatory
But I came across "cunctate" - even better:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cunctate
As in "TBT cunct
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