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05-31-2018 - 12:30
synonymouse
More the Neronian era - dazed and confused urbanity to the point of decadence unseen before and very modern - with the stealth jihad of fundamentalist Christianity just spreading thru the 99% of slave
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05-30-2018 - 10:47
synonymouse
2042. Re: BAD BART!
If you really have "homeless" junkies with HIV-AIDS out there on the street and they have have been shown to litter needles and syringes you have a public health problem of the order of a loose rabid
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05-30-2018 - 10:35
synonymouse
HART already has that but the price is ugly ghetto all-elevated in a tourist paradise. And no possibility of operating at grade or in the street. In other words you could not do easy nd relatively c
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05-29-2018 - 22:28
synonymouse
infomercial by the folks who brought you BART Imperial gauge.
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05-29-2018 - 21:52
synonymouse
SMART also has tenders on the payroll to manage the moveable bridge over the Petaluma River. A high level bridge parallel to the freeway bridge will solve that, but of course ramps not compatible wit
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05-29-2018 - 21:30
synonymouse
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/tesla-in-autopilot-mode-hit-a-parked-california-police-car.html
Of all the cars in the world to ram...
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05-29-2018 - 11:53
synonymouse
San Diego trolley light rail does interface with freight at some point, with a temporal separation:
https://www.sdmts.com/about-mts
"Freight
MTS contracts with the San Diego & Imperial Valley (
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05-26-2018 - 20:50
synonymouse
I googled this but could not find any info on the number of staff on board.
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05-24-2018 - 23:50
synonymouse
You are talking about the desires of the corporate one percent not the community.
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05-24-2018 - 10:25
synonymouse
Spot on.
And you haven't mentioned the Robert Moses phenomenon - we have one of those untouchable transport barons in the Bay Area.
Trying to motivate and organize public opinion via the media i
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05-23-2018 - 21:51
synonymouse
Overhead lines are the way to go - plenty of power and others, like the Europeans, don't find the maintenance any big deal. Think of the wires as if arteries and veins. For now batteries remain a tr
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05-22-2018 - 22:11
synonymouse
There is nothing wrong about needed appropriate incremental, like grade separation projects on the LACMTA light rail lines, in particular the Long Beach route.
Alternately there is a relatively rec
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05-21-2018 - 12:47
synonymouse
"They just want the government to find a way to make it work."
Throw mo' money at it.
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05-21-2018 - 11:58
synonymouse
They hate overhead lines - the effectual solution to the zero pollution bus issue.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-20180520-story.html
Trolley coaches work well in urban
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05-18-2018 - 00:00
synonymouse
Your comment is more germane to something like SMART, a commute doodlebug which does mostly connect parking lots.
Market St. Ry.'s #40 streetcar line went all the way out Mission and eventually to
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05-17-2018 - 21:26
synonymouse
I am pretty sure I saw some years ago a photo of Lenin relaxing in his apartment after the Revolution with a pet cat prominent.
Interesting that there was AFAIK no government celebration in Russia
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05-17-2018 - 12:19
synonymouse
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/europe/manifestations-en-ukraine/crimee/crimee-un-pont-symbole-de-l-annexion-par-la-russie_2754105.html
I guess the KGB taught a lot of skills.
2 years to build
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05-17-2018 - 10:36
synonymouse
Listening...
First off there will be in due course a station in Los Banos. Who do you think runs California? Hint: it is not the eunuch Sierra Club.
And eventually there will be a confrontati
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05-17-2018 - 00:05
synonymouse
Manhattanization is worse than AI taking over.
Or is there a difference?
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05-16-2018 - 11:28
synonymouse
Politicians are aligned with the rich; neither of whom ride public transit.
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05-14-2018 - 20:08
synonymouse
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/05/13/san-francisco-police-may-soon-be-patrolling-bart-stations/
Could be reducing the penalty to a low level misdemeanor is bring junkies here from other stri
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05-12-2018 - 10:45
synonymouse
2064. $8bil more to blow
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-jerry-brown-may-budget-proposal-20180511-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
Forget the street people; they don't vote and they don't do kickbacks. Base tunnels t
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05-11-2018 - 22:51
synonymouse
The only surprise here is they got caught.
Just say no to Tutor-PB-Bechtel-MTC-BART-SPUR-CAHSR and all their works and all their pomps.
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05-10-2018 - 14:06
synonymouse
2066. Re: Regional Measure 3?
Replace current seats with toilet seats, preferably stainless steel. Think of a BART car as a detention cell, a step up from the cattlecar.
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05-09-2018 - 12:10
synonymouse
2067. Re: Regional Measure 3?
I am recommending no to everyone I know who votes. MTC is effectively a wholly owned subsidiary of BART and will direct most of the money to it to p*ss away on broad gauge to Sac via Tracy, Geary, et
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05-08-2018 - 22:41
synonymouse
http://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/people-behaving-badly-red-light-runners-in-santa-rosa/1166215730
When red lights are invisible so are pedestrians.
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05-08-2018 - 00:53
synonymouse
2069. Running over pedestrians
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/safety-advocates-sound-alarm-over-surge-of-pedestrians-killed-by-cars.html
The unspoken cause I see every day: DWA - driving while arrogant.
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05-07-2018 - 10:24
synonymouse
2070. 2067?
https://urbanize.la/post/metro-begins-laying-groundwork-future-vermont-avenue-rail-line#nws=mcnewsletter
#3 light rail curb lane vs. streetcar curb lane seems a bit rhetorical to me but I could see
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