Comments on: Sunday Open Thread

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:12:58 +0000

Most of those people are 15-20 miles of congested roads from ARTIC. If Metrolink were half-decent it would be faster to drive to the nearest station and take Metrolink to LAUS instead.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:23:49 +0000

But a bus isn’t as sexy as a monorail…

By: adirondacker12800

adirondacker12800 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:52:33 +0000

If Wikepedia is right there’s approximately 100,000 housing units in the city. Billion dollars spread over 100,000 units is only 10,000 dollars. Amortized that over 30 years at attractive interest rates that’s only 6 – 7 hundred dollars a year…… I’m sure the people who don’t live anywhere near the tracks would be anxious to pay so that people near the tracks have increased property values.
…. Spread over the 10,000 housing units that might have a little itty bitty tiny bit of anything to do with it that’s only 6 or 7 thousand dollars a year. And they forever and ever and ever they get to pay the increases maintenance costs of a tunnel versus whatever else might have worked. I’m sure everyone will get on board for that…. 7,500 hundred a year is only $625 a month….

By: spokker

spokker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:07:58 +0000

Gotta love white people.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:06:15 +0000

I’m am so sick to death of this smarmy, slimey, dumbass, America should fail, breed of americans shooting off their mouths. They have zero critical thinking skills and are so unhappy with themselves that what makes them feel good is to drag everyone down with them. They have no thoughts of their own because they are too afraid to have an original thought. They can only parrot what they are told. Polly wanna cracker? Remember the insecure “follow the leader” crowd back in jr hight. These guys never got past it.

By: adirondacker12800

adirondacker12800 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:04:11 +0000

Hey, they wanna put it in a tunnel let ‘em. It increases the value of their property. I’m sure there’s some way to get around Prop 13 and increase their property taxes to pay for it…..

By: jimsf

jimsf — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:51:23 +0000

Why Castle is best site for high speed rail maintenance hub

By: spokker

spokker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:59:52 +0000

Here’s a map I made illustrating the problem. Let me know if you have any questions.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111791154239862255567.000479e36cf92ac35486a&z=14

By: spokker

spokker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:56:44 +0000

Any participation by Disney is out of the question. Any transportation system from ARTIC to the Resort Area will not touch Disney property.

The current proposal is a meandering 35 MPH monorail or maglev that’s going to cost a crapload of money and doesn’t even get any closer to the parks or the Disney Hotels that an express bus connection would. It would be okay for getting to the convention center and Disney’s third gate, if that ever happens.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:17:08 +0000

What is the current proposal, exactly?

I know it’s been discussed and all but shot down here before, but I’ve been pondering how a Disneyland Monorail extension might work.