Big Dumb Idiot Moron

Brother I have a 0 car train to sell you

That was put to a referendum tho, that's just Californians.

So this thing is never getting built, got it.

Why? Why needlessly complicate their system making it bespoke and harder to regulate for absolutely no cost savings?

This is not how FRA and FTA governance work. Do you want BART to end up like PATH?

They did so before the Schengen area was enacted, but these days it doesn't make any sense to not have an open border policy, but again, the trade off is that you need to have your ID with you and have to report your stays

Which effectively means you have to carry it.

That's still the thing about living in the Schengen Area, they're allowed to do this at will at any of the border crossings. I've been checked basically every single time I've taken the Snälltåget and on multiple occasions on regional trains between Germany and Austria.

You are required to have ID (whether that's your passport or national ID card) on you at all times in Germany.

It's 10 minutes everywhere or better during the day except between Pittsburg-Antioch, Bay Fair-Dublin, and SFO-Millbrae

Operations budgets have nothing to do with capital budgets

This was bart from the get go though

Trains don't exist duh

Or maybe it's because Geary would be better off connected to the east bay, instead of forcing a bunch of people to transfer at Market.

THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE VOTED FOR IT JESUS FUCK

They're way better than Caltrain or riders what?

That prong is at least sticking out of the neutral socket, so even if you did touch it you wouldn't get shocked or electrocuted unless you completed the circuit with the hot wire somehow

2000 entrants a day for a theme park, Ontario Science Center, Concert Venue? Dude those parking spaces are going to be filled with family cars carrying like 3-6 people. There will be a subway line, a GO line, and 3 streetcar lines there too.

You might be thinking of Portal/Downtown Rail Extension, which might just be the most absurdly priced project in the world right now.

"that distance" refers to "expertise only gets you so far". Should've said "that progress" instead.

I'm not defending high costs, I'm saying that scale of expertise only gets you so far, and that distance is minuscule in the grand scheme of things when time, material, and labor are just that much more expensive. One has to tackle those things if you want to see real savings.

It was a single example and regardless, arguing that adjustments are made ignores the fact that those adjustments are inherently loaded assumptions. PPP doesn't account for things like externalities (like health insurance), regional costs of living, overhead, liability, or any other number of things

The problem of cost is very clearly multifaceted and is not as simple as "costs are high because of X reason outlined by the TCP." I could point to 50 reasons as to why costs are so high in the anglosphere yet barely be scratching the surface.

When a structural engineer in the US makes 160K USD annually (before benefits) and a structural engineer in France makes 60K USD annually the money has to come from somewhere.

SF does not invest much in transit tbh. They invested into the central subway and then gave up. San Jose is investing in Transit

We need to build Cape Hatteras on Toronto island

That's why the facility is hundreds of meters underground...

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Guess who's back baby...

When people treat your public infrastructure like shit, you can't always have pretty things

Not good, Link21 chose the wrong technology and I will die on this hill.

CC (and for that matter, SMART, ACE, and SJ) should be electrified and increased in frequency without the strings of a 40 billion dollar tunnel that will get absolutely no funding from the feds