Comments on: Palo Alto HSR Hearing On Thursday

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:37:10 +0000

To bad it’s a record. If it was a CD it wouldn’t be able to play at all.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:20:13 +0000

wow you need to fix the scratch on that record.

By: synonymouse

synonymouse — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:15:35 +0000

Naah – the Pelosi-Machine is too busy trying to make sure BART employees don’t have their cadillac health plan taxed.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:01:05 +0000

You forgot the Pelosi-Machine.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:00:31 +0000

You’re still smoking crack if you think trains at 125 mph cause strong vibrations. Is there anything you say that you DON’T make up?

Hell, I’d rather be on a berm than on an elevated in an earthquake any day. Berm isn’t going to collapse. Even if you say it will.

By: dejv

dejv — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:35:38 +0000

> And if you bolt your rails to a concrete structure, way less maintenance.

Ever heard about slab track?

By: spokker

spokker — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:37:14 +0000

There’s a fucking tube that trains race through on the bottom of the Bay. During the Loma Prieta earthquake the damn thing was up and running after the quake while freeways were crumbling.

If the ridership estimates and the cost estimates are bullshit because BECHTEL/PB/BART CONSPIRACY, then it also follows that the goddamn thing will hold up in an earthquake.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:12:50 +0000

Um, why? Those tunnels are expensive. Japan builds tunnels because it’s too mountainous to build at-grade lines with high curve radius. The Peninsula does not have this problem.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:11:53 +0000

People always complain about els. Then property values go up and they stop complaining.

By: synonymouse

synonymouse — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:29:30 +0000

They have been co-existing with a dinky little occasional commute operation not an overhead 4-track mainline with 125mph trains in constant operation.

Judging from the level of opposition in downtown Palo Alto it sure looks like a lot of businesses look to saying adios rather than face the blight and din of an elevated railway. And we’re not even talking about the years of construction disruption.

Of course the tycoons are miles away, in the hills. Even Bechtel can’t engineer anything that loud.