Mark Baysinger

Mark Baysinger

@baysinger.org

16 Followers 19 Following 36 Posts Joined Sep 2023
3 months ago
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Indian-Style Basmati Rice | America's Test Kitchen Steeping warm spices in the cooking liquid infuses the grains in this pilaf with savory fragrance.

I've made your butter chicken recipe several times, and I fully endorse it! Also, this rice recipe that those goes along with it is fantastic and super easy! www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/1152...

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4 months ago

This one is a four lane bridge for a two lane road, for some reason.

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4 months ago

Considering this road dead-ended here before HSR got here, it certainly should have been paid by someone other than CaHSRA

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4 months ago

I'm just saying that your opening post isn't showing a before and after of the east wing. It's showing the main mansion on the left, as it still looks today, and the partially demolished east wing on the right. The caption says both photos are the east wing.

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4 months ago

I don't think the photo on the left is the east wing. It looks like it's main mansion, as seen from the east wing.

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4 months ago

Vernon, population 222 (I did not make that up)

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5 months ago

One can dream! But CaHSR Phase 1 will terminate at Anaheim, so nothing south of that, unless Metrolink and NCTD pull their heads out of you know where. Though CaHSR Phase 2 is planned for San Diego, just not via this route.

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6 months ago

It passed! So now it's up to the governor to sign.

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6 months ago

To be fair, butter makes everything better

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6 months ago

Uh, definitely not service. The only construction they've started, so far, is some culvert work at their Las Vegas Blvd station site.

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6 months ago

Seems like those headrest wings would be bad for tall people.

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7 months ago

So, my takeaway from this video is Metrolink has no good reason not to electrify. It’s just such transparent BS.

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9 months ago

This link was provided in a QR code at the scoping meeting tonight

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9 months ago

This might be the report. It shows the staff-recommended alignments in detail at the end. The “Under Crest Canyon” alignment supports 110-mph operation for every turn. www.sandag.org/-/media/SAND...

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9 months ago

I'd really like to see a breakdown of tunnel boring costs. It sure seems like the cost of the TBM (even it were 10 times the cost of this one) is a pretty small part of the overall costs.

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9 months ago

Please post all of your construction updates on BlueSky. It's nice that you post some of them, by why do you post some on every platform but BlueSky?

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9 months ago

My understanding in the Crest Canyon alternative would support 110 MPH operation. None of these alternatives are exactly what was detailed in the VA study. That said, I think it's important to emphasize that a 110 MPH alignment should be chosen, along with a bore size that will allow electrification

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10 months ago

And the sunk cost here is something like $13-14B, to be clear. And there's a lot of construction to show for that.

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10 months ago

And it was an act of congress that turned it over to the NPS.

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10 months ago

I think the gates would all close once they run out of backup power, since they’re designed to fail safe (power keeps them open, gravity closes them)

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10 months ago

Thanks for the explanation! I guess it's how the sausage gets made

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10 months ago

You can see here it's now a bit of a nothing bill: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCo...

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10 months ago

Unfortunately, the third-party permitting reforms that were in the bill have been removed, and replaced with a statement of "intent" to amend the bill. I'd really like to understand what that's about. Is this a normal part of the process? Does that make such an amendment likely?

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10 months ago

Do you care to explain why the part about 3rd party permits was removed from SB445? The bill doesn't appear to do much, anymore, except declare the intent to amend the bill, later.

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10 months ago

They are bridges, but in railroad terms, they're grade separations. No conflict between trains and cars, unlike your typical at-grade crossing.

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11 months ago

This particular road didn’t even cross the BNSF tracks here (neither at grade nor otherwise) before this

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1 year ago

Spend $30B to expand LAX, but transit projects just get millions?

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1 year ago

It’s the “Under Crest Canyon” alignment. It’s not exactly the same as any of the alignments in the VA report.

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1 year ago

The good news is they said one of the staff-recommended alignments would accommodate 110 mph operation.

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1 year ago

Last week at the info session they held in Del Mar. It was a one-on-one discussion with a staff member. I asked the question specifically in regards to the recommendations staff was making to the board that week. Really imperative that the board hears from us, so they don’t make this mistake.

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