BART has three weeks to address FTA concerns about the Oakland airport connector. From today's Chronicle:
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Perhaps it's time I buy a bike. Forgoing a few months of Fastpasses would pay for a decent used bike. If only I had the space to store a bike. |
:previous: I got the following email. I'm out of town and can't go but maybe other will want to:
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People at the MTA meeting are tweeting that it's very crowded and noisy. I hope they seize the fucking room. |
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It's like saying MUNI is adding new supertaxis (buses) Im sure there's another appropriate word. |
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http://sf.curbed.com/uploads/2010_02_alleybig.jpg Source: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...free_plaza.php |
441,000 parking spaces in SF . . . in a city of 800,000 people plus thousands more on workdays. It's harder to park than I thought.
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High-speed rail could skip San Francisco-to-San Jose route
SILICON VALLEY -- The California High Speed Rail Authority is thinking about potentially abandoning the San Francisco-to-San Jose section of its proposed high speed rail line -- saying running 200-mile-per-hour bullet trains through the Peninsula might be politically impossible. The authority is instead floating a new idea, which would have the train line begin in San Jose, instead of San Francisco. The authority is still trying to figure out how to run high-speed trains down the Peninsula. They're looking at either elevated tracks, underground tracks or so-called "stacked trains" -- where the high-speed rail line would run either above or below the local Caltrain line. The authority says starting the line in San Jose would be easier legally and financially. They stress that the idea is still in its infancy, and has not yet been fully examined. http://kliv.com/High-speed-rail-coul...San-Jo/6349554 Leaving out SF makes the entire NorCal leg of the system useless. |
^Where are these people getting this? The Authority has said no such thing, and it wouldn't even be allowable without a new proposition to overwrite prop 1A. They seriously think that passing a new statewide proposition to fund HSR from SJ to LA has a better chance of happening than dealing with a few NIMBYs in Palo Alto?
I'm sure that the "source" used by KLIV is an intern at most, and more likely, someone who doesn't even work at the Authority. Probably the Menlo Park newspaper or something. The fact that the article mentions "200 mph trains running on the peninsula" even though that has NEVER been proposed by anyone (125 mph would be the limit between SF and SJ) is telling. |
From the posts I read in this thread and elsewhere, you think a liberal city and region will have a good transit, but it seems to be the opposite. Can SF and the Bay Area do anything right?
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Eliminating San Francisco from the SF-LA HSR system is an idea so stupid I don't even know where to start.
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This idea is absolutely ridiculous. These people need to be silenced for even bringing it up.
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Quentin Kopp seems to be behind a lot of this and I must say I don't understand it. It's like he is taking revenge on his former home town for some reason. What did we do to him?
Frankly, I think if they didn't initially build the part of the system between SF and San Jose, it would inevitably get built anyway (and cost more when it does). It's so obviously an essential part of the project. One wonders what percentage of passengers would want to use the system if it did not go city center LA to city center SF. |
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well this is a shocker ....
Feds deny $70 million in stimulus money for BART rail extension to Oakland airport
By Denis Cuff Contra Costa Times Posted: 02/12/2010 08:41:38 PM PST Updated: 02/12/2010 10:42:19 PM PST BART's plan for a rail extension to the Oakland International Airport was dealt a major blow Friday when the federal government denied $70 million in economic stimulus funds for the project because of concerns it may discriminate against low-income and minority residents. In a blunt letter, the Federal Transit Administration said it was pulling the plug on the grant because BART cannot possibly meet deadlines for a required analysis to determine whether the $492 million project has discriminatory impacts. The study is required for major transit projects to get federal funds. "I am required to now inform you that the plan is rejected," Peter Rogoff, administrator of the federal agency, wrote in a two-page letter to BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger. Dugger could not be reached immediately for comment, and a BART spokesman said Friday night the agency was preparing a response.... http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_14393883 |
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I don't think the lost cause that was the BART airport connector is such a big deal, it's not like it's absolutely essential. They should just reallocate the money for some other more important cause. Losing it period, now that would be a disappointment.
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