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09-16-2018 - 16:13
synonymouse
AFAIK there have not been changes to the Golf Course intersection. I'll ask my daughter to take a good look the next time she crosses it. A lot of times she takes the back way - Petaluma Hill Rd. -
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09-16-2018 - 10:52
synonymouse
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1890986/hong-kongs-prototype-electric-bus-goes-flames
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-20180520-story.html
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09-16-2018 - 10:40
synonymouse
1803. Contrarian view of SMART
https://www.marinij.com/2018/09/02/mij-l-smart-col-0903/
SMART is largely irrelevant in the overall context of Northbay transport. The clumsy connection north of Sir Francis Drake to the GGT ferri
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09-15-2018 - 22:17
synonymouse
Bangers and absconding on a trolley bus no less:
https://www.insideedition.com/inside-wave-smash-and-grab-car-robberies-plaguing-san-francisco-46736
You'll have to wait out the perfunctory ad.
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09-15-2018 - 21:49
synonymouse
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8739867-181/smart-train-fatality-in-rohnert?sba=AAS
SMART's top speed in urban areas should be reduced to 55mph.
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09-15-2018 - 21:31
synonymouse
Right under your feet:
https://sfmta.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/29th-Mission-Car-House/G0000vj0nvpI.LEI/I0000KNVmN4GxoGw/C0000gA7yYOiLzG0
Which brings up the question whatcha gonna do about
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09-15-2018 - 21:17
synonymouse
The rebuild of the Cal Cable to Fillmore has figured in Muni plans over the years, just as with the extension of the Mason line from the housing project terminus at Bay to the Wharf proper. The extra
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09-15-2018 - 12:58
synonymouse
Thanks for the lovely shot of the 463. The real deal.
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09-15-2018 - 12:45
synonymouse
1809. Re: Brand new car shells
My theory, as questionable as it may be, is the digger the bore the harder for Imperial Gauge to go underneath it. Perhaps difficult enough to get SPUR off that notion.
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09-15-2018 - 12:34
synonymouse
A campaign calling for wiring the #38 Geary straightaway would certainly flush out the Global Warming phonies. It is in your face obvious: crushload patronage, relatively short and straight route, p
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09-15-2018 - 11:03
synonymouse
https://www.wired.com/story/building-a-better-battery/
'Again, that doesn't mean solid state batteries will flood the market anytime soon. Last year Toyota admitted it was having issues developing
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09-15-2018 - 10:45
synonymouse
What precisely is your route for Imperial Gauge accessing the TBT via Alameda?
And speaking of Alameda I am sure they will just love the junkies, homeless and bangers associated with BART and its s
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09-15-2018 - 10:31
synonymouse
1813. Re: Brand new car shells
So most likely the DTX tunnels will clear Plate H?
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09-14-2018 - 23:22
synonymouse
1814. Re: Brand new car shells
How much taller are the Stadler bi-levels than the presumptive CAHSR single deck car? I am thinking of the extension of pantagraphs in the proposed DTX tunnel. I have this daft notion that the lower
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09-14-2018 - 15:30
synonymouse
I assume this will amount to 2 individual bores, but what will be the cross-section? They have to accommodate the height of the Stadler double-deck EMU's. Their pantographs will be running very low
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09-13-2018 - 17:54
synonymouse
That is about the speed I would guesstimate. And I assume the slow entry and exit speeds also reduces the trains per hour capacity of the TBT station.
CAHSR does not seem to fit in very well with
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09-13-2018 - 14:23
synonymouse
I have to agree with Bob2 that synonomouse is prone to senior moments - had one this morning while ruminating over where to cut in a Caltrain extension to the Eastbay out of SOMA. I was thinking larg
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09-13-2018 - 10:34
synonymouse
With this routing where would a Caltrain extension via tube or bridge take off to the Eastbay?
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09-13-2018 - 10:17
synonymouse
Perhaps this Party political crusade can be used to call for electrifying SMART and extending to the City. I rather doubt GGT will be able to score battery MCI's that can go 70 miles fully loaded at
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09-12-2018 - 22:38
synonymouse
Too bad Ms. Schaff and associates were not around in 1948 or so when everything electric was being ripped up and out and replaced with diesel.
Of course internal combustion "mobility" was all the r
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09-12-2018 - 18:54
synonymouse
The Wall Street Journal's opinion page declares California "certifiable". Sorry, paywall.
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09-12-2018 - 14:19
synonymouse
The route they have chosen makes for a decent block against a new BART tube from the Eastbay to most of downtown.
So perhaps they are actually thinking of Caltrain veering off to the East Bay inste
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09-12-2018 - 11:42
synonymouse
1824. Three big curves to TBT
http://www.sfexaminer.com/downtown-rail-extension-route-salesforce-transit-center-wins-approval/
I would guess close to a crawl from the area of the existing Caltrain SF station to the new bus term
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09-11-2018 - 10:39
synonymouse
1825. Re: BART Berryessa delay
Even now BART could be systematically regauged and converted to OC so as to be roughly compatible with HSR and S-Bahn concept. Parts of the system in far-flung venues could be re-purposed into quasi-
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09-10-2018 - 19:03
synonymouse
1826. Re: BART Berryessa delay
BART is a "parts mistake".
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09-10-2018 - 11:30
synonymouse
1828. BART Berryessa delay
http://www.ktvu.com/news/used-parts-installed-in-bart-extension-to-milpitas-causing-major-setback
It's BART, Jake.
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09-08-2018 - 20:25
synonymouse
I hear you academically but on the anecdotal level there is a residual sentiment that heavier gives better traction.
There is a story coming up here and it is kind of legend amongst Muni traction f
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09-08-2018 - 18:27
synonymouse
Did the car have solid axles or individually mounted and sprung wheels and motors - the inside of the curve being shorter than the outside?
The lighter weight of the carbon fibre streetcar would pr
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