Re: ITS SPRING !!

Andrew Price wrote:

Don't worry too much about it-- it won't be long until there is
far more Interstate and US Highway right-of-way than we have a
practical use for. Running rail down the middle will redeem some
of the overcapacity and make good use of all those over- and
underpasses in the process.

That's an awful place to put rail corridors although it has been
done for rapid transit in many places. The stations are hard to
reach and people shy away from going out there in the netherworld
of whizzing cars and trucks.

I think his point is that before long, there will no longer *be* all
those whizzing cars and trucks.

Just the same, the center of a freeway is a hostile no-man's land.
That may be a good wish, but I don't see it coming, having watched
such events come and go. When we had gasoline rationing during WWII
rail lines were being abandoned in this area and converted to other
non-recoverable uses. The last CEO of Southern Pacific abandoned
lines left and right before the show was over.

Today, SF has no rail freight service any more because the huge
Bayshore yard and locomotive shops are gone. All freight traffic
comes to SF from Oakland and is trucked over the Bay Bridge into town.
The stupid part of that is the need for a new version of the 10-lane
bridge arises from east ramp that is so steep that fully loaded
trucks, once stopped by traffic back-up cannot get out of second gear
and cause huge daily traffic jams "on the incline".

http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/

This bridge is not being built:

http://bridgepros.com/projects/Bay_Bridge/index.htm

With no funds for our decaying republican roads with pot holes that
destroy rims on cars, there is no money for this construction project
so Arnoldt (the Terminator) is taking it from school funding.

The new bridge, being built parallel to the old, starts its ramp far
enough back to have a lesser gradient... but it cannot have more than
5-lanes in each direction like the old one because the tunnel through
YBI and the west suspension bridge have 5+5 lanes (upper and lower
decks). To cover for this construction boondoggle, constant reference
to the seismically damaged bridge is made... a bridge that has no load
or speed restrictions since 1989 when a piece of concrete decking
broke in the earthquake.

The Dumbarton rail bridge has been closed since Southern Pacific went
under and no trains, passenger or freight, can get to SF that way, the
way most freight arrived from the container yards in Oakland, southern
CA and the east. Citizens committees oppose re-opening the bridge and
a vigilante group burned the wooden trestle west (1/4 mile) end of its
approach trestle to the water.

All cities between Redwood City (Dumbarton line) and SF oppose high
speed rail to SF. That's where we are in the USA.

Jobst Brandt
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