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09-01-2018 - 15:17
synonymouse
In this instance going 50mph instead of 66 might have made the difference. Purportedly a witness said he did jump back but not fast enough or far enough.
SMART is spending its money wrong - instea
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09-01-2018 - 12:59
synonymouse
SMART is already largely irrelevant due to its design and routing limitations.
IMHO 79mph relates better to rural areas and dates better to maybe mid-20th Century California with like one quarter o
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09-01-2018 - 11:20
synonymouse
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8692285-181/pedestrian-fatally-struck-by-smart?sba=AAS&artslide=3&slide=GAL
66mph and 77mph(earlier box truck wreck) are high speeds for grade crossings in a high
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08-31-2018 - 21:33
synonymouse
My daughter lives off Golf Course and crosses this intersection all the time. It is a very dangerous one, especially eastbound. 2 busy roads closely paralleling the tracks and right up against the 1
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08-31-2018 - 12:14
synonymouse
https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/la-county-commission-gives-blessing-to-big-tejon-ranch-co-development
Buying politicians is a real bargain considering what you get.
Definitely King of NIMB
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08-31-2018 - 10:40
synonymouse
1866. Muni
https://abc7news.com/politics/sf-mayor-demands-improvements-to-muni-service-/4024018/
Note the #14 articulated trolley coach with passengers aboard operating off-wire. Is this a regular practice?
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08-31-2018 - 10:04
synonymouse
1867. Another SMART fatality
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8689611-181/person-struck-by-smart-train?sba=AAS
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08-31-2018 - 09:59
synonymouse
waste of income? - try 2-man operation.
SMART is on the taxpayer sales tax tit - no worries, mate.
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08-30-2018 - 10:21
synonymouse
https://abc7news.com/bart-reports-man-found-dead-at-bay-fair-station/4095252/
SF pretty much there already
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08-27-2018 - 14:49
synonymouse
Hire Bechtel - they know how to build the bestest NYC style subway ever.
First thing you build yourself a testtrack...
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08-26-2018 - 21:49
synonymouse
I doubt the incremental approach would have been able to garner enough political support to get it on the ballot much less to get it passed. They had to propose something with at least a taste of ble
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08-25-2018 - 11:03
synonymouse
https://www.sfmta.com/press-releases/twin-peaks-tunnel-reopen-saturday-august-25
4 new crossovers in the tunnel. I guess they figured a concrete roadbed would put the tunnel out of action too long
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08-24-2018 - 11:03
synonymouse
1877. Dugout Loop
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/elon-musks-dodger-stadium-dugout-loop-tunnel-should-be-ready-by-2020-team-cfo-says.html
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08-23-2018 - 19:48
synonymouse
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/23/spur-lays-out-dystopian-bay-area-visions-for-2070.html
More scatta from the folks who brought you Imperial Gauge cattlecars.
Easy to get all the ordinary and humb
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08-23-2018 - 10:55
synonymouse
https://abc7news.com/man-stabbed-at-warm-springs-bart-station/4038390/
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08-22-2018 - 17:36
synonymouse
You will have to track down that stuff online. It is just the way it is. So long as the P.O. has cheap first class parcels not too bad.
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08-22-2018 - 10:45
synonymouse
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/air-pollution-why-london-struggles-to-breathe.html
Where are the trolleybuses and streetcars(sorry, trams)?
London more dense and polluted than Gotham?
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08-22-2018 - 10:37
synonymouse
1884. Re: Resisting CAcaHSR
I looked at it but did not see any commentary that is not already familiar to us.
If you haven't figured it out yet the near future strategy of Jerry Brown and PBCAHSR should be pretty clear by now
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08-21-2018 - 19:00
synonymouse
http://www.thetransitcoalition.us/newspdf/lat20120110b.pdf
"The Tejon Ranch, which owns 422 square miles of land in the Grapevine area, has strongly opposed
consideration of the I-5 route. The ran
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08-21-2018 - 17:25
synonymouse
Sorry, more dangerous seismically than Tehachapi Pass.
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08-21-2018 - 17:21
synonymouse
PB's opposition to Tejon was partly posited on the latter's allegedly being more seismically importuned, shall we say, than Tejon Pass. This was based on the Ft. Tejon temblor of 1857(estimated 7.9)w
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08-21-2018 - 14:18
synonymouse
I tried to scope out the faults along your tunnel route using the online maps - it looks like it would parallel the active ones. No slip galleries required? Supposedly the BART Eastbay hills tunnel
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08-21-2018 - 11:21
synonymouse
So the message I am getting here, once past all the invective, is California should not build any HSR between SF and LA, thus obviating the need for any highly expensive southern mountain crossing?
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08-21-2018 - 11:17
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-dogged-by-fare-cheats-may-replace-all-600-13166401.php
Other Chron article indicates a 6.3% drop in riders in past 3 years.
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