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07-15-2018 - 10:33
synonymouse
Very good point about the time required to implement. Muni could convert the #38 to trolley coach relatively quickly and expand storage at Presidio Yard. All this without having to fight with the bu
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07-14-2018 - 21:39
synonymouse
Commuter trains have many more seats than a bus and they don't stop very often and when they do stop it is relatively gentle. I have seen standees thrown on the ground on GGT and Muni when the driver
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07-14-2018 - 14:38
synonymouse
Articulateds are absolutely essential on really busy lines like Muni #38, which was of course in a better times the B streetcar. Historically you can see the pattern in terms of payroll. The origina
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07-14-2018 - 12:01
synonymouse
I submit buses are appropriate to discuss on a rail site. Passenger rail ops here and around the world routinely use buses as part of their service network. Look at Amtrak here in California with se
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07-14-2018 - 11:49
synonymouse
https://la.curbed.com/2018/7/13/17558644/los-angeles-times-history-chandler#nws=mcnewsletter
CAHSR relegated to the backside of Palmdale, no touching the Kingdom.
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07-13-2018 - 20:25
synonymouse
More likely divine intervention; but to paraphrase a one-liner from Dave Allen: "There are no solicitors(lawyers)in Heaven.
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07-13-2018 - 14:41
synonymouse
1987. Re: Aerospace Threat
ET is sharing its tech with Elon to build the HypeLoop
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07-13-2018 - 10:55
synonymouse
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/07/electric-double-decker-buses-are-coming-to-la/565016/?utm_source=twb#nws=mcnewsletter
This seems dicey to me but then what do I know. GGT does not ru
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07-13-2018 - 10:47
synonymouse
The politics of the NCRA-NWP-SMART is just beginning. Rest assured the insiders are scrambling around to best protect their interests.
When SMART opens to the north side of Sir Francis Drake in La
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07-12-2018 - 23:51
synonymouse
If the Bechtels, the PB's and the Tutors were given the contract to develop and build integrated circuits and microprocessors we would still be with the vacuum tube.
California's problem is ove
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07-12-2018 - 11:06
synonymouse
BART-Bechtel-MTC cannot be fixed without a radical restart. It is following its namesake inspiration, the NYC subway system, into dysfunction and disarray albeit with a more idiosyncratic twist.
J
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07-12-2018 - 00:04
synonymouse
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/09/business-competitiveness-between-us-states-may-point-to-culture.html
This is one of the dumber pieces I have encountered in a while. It conveniently forgets Mass as
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07-11-2018 - 15:17
synonymouse
"Although the new project has frequently been called a bullet train, the proposed line will run at a half speed of 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph), which is slightly slower than comparable high-speed
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07-10-2018 - 22:59
synonymouse
Thanks - I figured it would be a need-to-know kind of thing.
Interesting they went to a transmission - I assume this is related to the low current output of batteries and the need to finesse things
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07-10-2018 - 10:00
synonymouse
https://electrek.co/2018/04/04/proterra-all-electric-dual-motor-bus-test-utah-steepest-roads/
A number of questions come to mind, like the voltage?; AC motors?; IGBT's?; both axles powered?; what i
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07-09-2018 - 11:59
synonymouse
Generally speaking how long in advance does the UP make their announcements about steam events? We are getting half-way thru 2018 and I assume they have they need some lead time to make arrangements.
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07-06-2018 - 11:27
synonymouse
1999. Re: UP 4014 question
I was in Cheyenne in the summer of 1960 but I never even thought to look at the table. I just assumed the obvious. There were some big boys, challengers and northerns around but sadly all too cold a
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07-06-2018 - 11:13
synonymouse
"Late last year, the Times published an article, by Brian M. Rosenthal, that took a hard look at East Side Access. It revealed a world of graft and waste. There was, for example, the accountant who co
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07-03-2018 - 11:27
synonymouse
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/06/29/remembering-the-red-car-what-southern-california-light-rail-looked-like-in-1911-and-decades-thereafter/#nws=mcnewsletter
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07-02-2018 - 20:29
synonymouse
David, AC Transit was National City Lines in an earlier incarnation.
They have the blood of the Key on their hands as well as the AAA and the Division of Highways.
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07-02-2018 - 15:49
synonymouse
2003. Re: Cuma Express
https://www.ildenaro.it/eav-de-gregorio-lo-sciopero-penalizzano-migliaia/
http://www.napolitoday.it/economia/sciopero-eav-21-marzo-2018.html
https://www.tvcity.it/circum-scioperi-e-treni-soppres
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07-02-2018 - 13:33
synonymouse
2004. Cuma Express
http://www.rainews.it/tgr/campania/index.html?/tgr/video/2018/07/ContentItem-53534f58-7918-4167-8a0d-6157d1e19cc9.html
Slide to 06:00 for the short coverage on a the inauguration of a special touri
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07-02-2018 - 13:08
synonymouse
Curiously worthies such as Kopp, Hemminger, Dahms, etc. and of course the crony consultants Bechtel and PB have many, many times tried to trash Caltrain with BART Imperial gauge.
Had they succeede
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07-01-2018 - 15:15
synonymouse
BART steals all the transit ops lunch money and blows it on broad gauge with the complicity of its asset MTC-ABAG. They will even manage to get some of Jerry's gas tax money and p**s it away.
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07-01-2018 - 13:26
synonymouse
You guys in LaLa have not seen ka-ching until you seen BART Imperial gauge.
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06-27-2018 - 10:25
synonymouse
2008. Re: Metrolink Question
The Brits seem to have had an historical aversion to electrification, especially of lesser lines(say Glasgow to Edinburgh)by comparison to the Continent. And when they did electrify they stupidly did
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06-25-2018 - 20:19
synonymouse
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/25/17500882/twin-peaks-tunnel-closure-2018-muni-dates-time
Circa 1973 when the outer Market subway was undertaken Muni took in a number of suggestions and IIRC Jack Woo
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06-23-2018 - 20:03
synonymouse
"Al Harper said he has crews working to rebuild a more than 50-year-old engine to run on oil, which carries less fire danger, that will be ready for next season. The train will also investigate option
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