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08-21-2018 - 10:05
synonymouse
You do not need to do a lot of destination studies, etc. to see what route the majority of surface travelers use to go between SF and LA. It is Altamont, I-5, and Tejon. No matter what southern moun
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08-20-2018 - 10:16
synonymouse
We need those lanes for more important auto stuff:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayBridge?src=hash
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08-19-2018 - 23:54
synonymouse
LA to Bakersfield via Tejon has bonafide potential as with SF and the Peninsula to Sacramento via Altamont. If those corridors cannot support fast passenger rail then it is hopeless.
Of course LA
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08-19-2018 - 18:46
synonymouse
1894. Re: CA HSR Update
This fiasco could have been so easily avoided by starting at the ends which have the numbers, in population and dollars. At the north end Caltrain is receiving electrification, altho too many million
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08-19-2018 - 11:45
synonymouse
1895. **** traffic circles
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/sfmta-pulls-180-on-costly-mcallister-traffic-circle/
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08-19-2018 - 10:06
synonymouse
You cannot properly Manhattanize without an NYC subway clone, even if it turns out a failed derivative. Most mutations fail.
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08-19-2018 - 10:02
synonymouse
Note the oil-burning locomotive with the Vanderbilt tender.
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08-18-2018 - 13:13
synonymouse
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/08/16-atsf-no-2926-is-about-to-steam-again----after-60-years
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08-18-2018 - 11:23
synonymouse
http://www.sfexaminer.com/checkered-past-contractor-sf-muni-tunnel-death-raises-red-flag/
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08-17-2018 - 21:25
synonymouse
I did see a new-looking tamper sitting next to Copeland in Petaluma a few days ago.
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08-17-2018 - 12:27
synonymouse
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dodger-stadium-tunnel-20180815-story.html
Scroll to 3:50 for a different vision, from the fifties -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2cogyPKpaY
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08-17-2018 - 10:40
synonymouse
A rail-only bridge would not add more cars in the City. One set of tracks for Caltrain-HSR and another set for light rail and possibly paved to accommodate AC buses as well.
What should have been
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08-16-2018 - 16:42
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Even-as-SF-transit-center-opens-officials-13149810.php
Cannot figure out why Muni should come up with any money since its presence is margina
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08-14-2018 - 18:18
synonymouse
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/italian-freeway-bridge-collapses-near-genoa-with-dozens-reported-dead.html
On a toll highway but I do not know if privately owned.
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08-14-2018 - 16:10
synonymouse
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/14-mission-yesterday-today-tomorrow
So it seems the #14 was rerailed from 16th St. to Daly City in 1936, ergo only 8 years old when Muni took control of the Market St. Ry
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08-14-2018 - 14:04
synonymouse
1909. Somewhat OT but telling
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lake-county-fire-epicenter-20180814-story.html
I used to own property in Upper Lake in the early 90's so this is a real bummer. A wonderful place with grea
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08-13-2018 - 14:05
synonymouse
Nothing "vast" going on hereabouts in transport planning. Just a diminitive cabal of worthies and notables in the proverbial smoke-filled room.
Now vast would be something like Egypt's increasing
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08-13-2018 - 12:33
synonymouse
Certainly nothing is going to happen on this issue until the extension to north of Sir Francis Drake is opened. I dunno how Larkspur will react to pressure for extending somewhat south. It could dep
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08-12-2018 - 18:13
synonymouse
Everything in the Bay Area is BART-MTC-ABAG's business in their own mind. Motivated by institutional ambition, hubris and manifest destiny on steroids. And exquisitely connected to the patronage mac
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08-12-2018 - 14:48
synonymouse
BART-MTC would oppose the southern extension to the City as SMART is intended as merely a place holder for broad gauge.
The way around that stupidity is for GGT to take over SMART. The GG Bridge D
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08-11-2018 - 23:08
synonymouse
The Key did not have a chance sharing with autos on the Bay Bridge. A parallel rail only bridge would have had to be built, perhaps including the SP. The bridge would have had to be designed so as t
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08-11-2018 - 19:51
synonymouse
In the Bay Area the Key could have been saved if they came up with the money to build a rail bridge. A lot more of the SF streetcar system could have been saved if the union had agreed in a timely ma
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08-11-2018 - 11:59
synonymouse
In the larger sense this is not a new issue and is extremely difficult, with good arguments on both sides. That is: procure anywhere or protect US jobs.
The underlying cause was and is the postw
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08-11-2018 - 09:40
synonymouse
I feel really bad for the progeny, the future generations. At least for them they have not seen the better times so they do not have anything to compare now to, which would really depress them.
Ba
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08-10-2018 - 12:17
synonymouse
You are "misunderestimating" the power of the Democratic Party patronage machine and its unwavering devotion to all things BART and particularly its unions. They tithe the Party better than the BLE-U
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08-10-2018 - 10:40
synonymouse
The Caltrain electrification has been undertaken over BART-MTC-ABAG-Hemminger's dead body. The only way Caltrain could get past BART-MTC's decades of schemes to convert the ex-SP ROW to 5'6" was to i
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08-09-2018 - 12:07
synonymouse
Maybe they can budget some money for this thing and then slip it under the aegis of SMART manifest dsstiny(like the SMART bike paths), which means it is now under the control of MTC and the latter g
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