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10-18-2018 - 10:47
synonymouse
1741. Really?
https://www.enr.com/articles/45321-enr-california-best-projects-2018-airporttransit-transbay-transit-center-bus-ramps
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10-17-2018 - 21:39
synonymouse
The stop at Palmdale on one is balanced by a stop at Santa Clarita on the other. But empty trains could occasion scrounging desperately for any more passengers and trying more stops on the Detour, sa
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10-17-2018 - 18:10
synonymouse
To produce a precise difference you would need to have the detailed alignments in hand. That is probably fairly close in the case of PB's choice for Tehachapi but for Tejon you would need a political
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10-17-2018 - 10:18
synonymouse
Sorry, the link:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/influencers/article219943105.html#nws=mcnewsletter
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10-17-2018 - 10:17
synonymouse
1745. Another PBCAHSR article
Kopp is right - no hero of mine - that this has been dumbed-down to nothing near what was promised to the Prop 1a voters: a state of the art uber-speed HSR point to point that would be competitive wi
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10-17-2018 - 10:10
synonymouse
Why in hell would one want to blow billions on a backwoods freight route(i.e. Mojave-Tehachapi)and not build it freight compatible when it parallels an obsolete but important freight alignment, i.e. t
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10-16-2018 - 23:19
synonymouse
"Maxwell said bypassing Bakersfield completely would help the state reduce the cost of the rail system and minimize the effects on businesses, farms and homes in the city"
How about bypassing Palmd
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10-16-2018 - 19:48
synonymouse
How did money that was supposed to go to Caltrain electrification and the TBT tunnel get diverted to BART to SFO?
How did a putative bleeding edge HSR from downtown SF to downtown LA get detoured t
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10-16-2018 - 13:51
synonymouse
I voted yes too.
BART-ABAG will just divert a great part of the monies to more Imperial Gauge. Au seuil de Sac.
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10-15-2018 - 19:06
synonymouse
Apparently some 30 years earlier Chavez Ravine was home to holy rollers, evangelists and their tents.
At least according to Lenny Bruce doing a sendup of Oral Roberts - I did not see LA until 1960.
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10-13-2018 - 13:35
synonymouse
Obviously, that's what SMART would do in the interim.
Honcho is Doug Bosco, local power broker.
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10-12-2018 - 11:22
synonymouse
This is a FrankenProject which cannot die. With Pelosi returned to power the Federal treasury will be diverted to PB and Tutor.
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10-11-2018 - 20:03
synonymouse
A trolley bus subway would and could serve as a stent from, say, from Laguna & Geary downtown to the TBT.
But cardiac issues are not at fault with Muni management down at Presidio GHQ; it is a lack
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10-11-2018 - 10:18
synonymouse
Utter nonsense. If you have not noticed Newsom is a flyweight - he was totally inert as Mayor of SF. He had the opportunity to inaugurate some major projects at Muni leading up to the Centennial in
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10-10-2018 - 20:40
synonymouse
1757. Re: TBT movin' on up
Nonetheless, the Millennium Tower lawyers are claiming the TBT's, shall we say, manipulation of underground water on their property affected neighboring subterranean conditions at the Tower's base.
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10-10-2018 - 17:21
synonymouse
1758. Arterial Rapid Transit?
https://www.itsmarta.com/uploadedFiles/Board%20Meeting%2010-4-18_final2.pdf
I gather it means a bus line, aka ART. Maybe Muni should start calling their #38 a Fast Arterial Rapid Transit line in a
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10-10-2018 - 11:39
synonymouse
1759. TBT movin' on up
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/SF-builders-struggle-to-keep-transit-center-from-13270294.php
I should think any rail tunnels or tubes in this area would face the same issue
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10-09-2018 - 18:49
synonymouse
I arrived in SF in March, 1966 and I don't recall any huge controversy about BART. What was controversial amongst people interested in trains was the nutty decision to reopen the gauge issue, which h
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10-08-2018 - 13:17
synonymouse
http://www.sfexaminer.com/breed-schaaf-call-regional-agency-review-investigation-cracked-beams/
Breed and Schaaf want to call in the MTC cavalry. ho ho ho Hire PB, Bechtel and Tutor to check it a
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10-07-2018 - 12:24
synonymouse
A good question and I think some Mexican 3 ft. gauge locos have come to the US over the years. Coahuila y Zacatecas RR?
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10-06-2018 - 16:44
synonymouse
It appears that some of this equipment may have already been scrapped, along with the railroad itself.
http://www.rrdc.com/op_guatemala_fvg.html
And I dunno if the "derelict" engines would be at
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10-06-2018 - 11:38
synonymouse
http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/guat010.htm
Any of these junkers left and if so who owns them? You'd think they would want to score a few Yanqui dollars before they just rust into obliv
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10-06-2018 - 11:20
synonymouse
1767. Now First Street
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Further-Shoring-Work-At-Transit-Center-Prompts-13285685.php
"Because Fremont and First streets are similarly designed, to be prudent, we have decided to
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10-05-2018 - 19:30
synonymouse
1768. Re: Cool thanks!
That is a story I did not know or forgot. When I was in school for an art history course I put together a short paper on Francois Mansart. I was most impressed with Maisons Lafitte, a model home des
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10-04-2018 - 12:31
synonymouse
In retrospect clearly extra lanes should have been added to the new eastern span. If nothing else for AC buses and even if only part of the way.
Pasting on extra complexity for alleged aesthetic r
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10-03-2018 - 14:48
synonymouse
1770. TBT closed for some time
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/9/26/17907592/transbay-transit-center-salesforce-crack-found-new-closed
From the foto of Fremont underneath the terminal towards Mission it does not look all that radical
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