BART has been continually expanding while deferring maintenance on the rest of the system, and that policy has finally come home to roost -- much of their infrastructure is over 40 years old and they can't defer maintenance forever. But by continually expanding, they've made themselves too big to fail (and they've gotten more counties on the hook to keep the service running), so they'll get bailed out one way or another.
Bullshit. The substation that was first identified as a problem is a mere months old. Granted, BART is terrible at money management seeking to replace the existing Oakland Airport bus shuttle with a half billion dollar cable car (because reasons). Turns out they don't even have the money to do basic track maintenance.
Stansted is indeed in the middle of nowhere, and generally more expensive to get to than Heathrow (tube vs National Rail). You could do worse than RyanAir quite easily (ex: United, Air France, LionAir, Asiana, Air Koryo).
Yes, smack in the middle of some of the highest price real estate in the country. Even coming from the peninsula, it will take you 30 min to get to the Caltrain station and park (longer if you want to make sure you can get parking), 1h for Caltrain, and probably another hour for the mismatch in schedules before you get on HSR.
There are planned HSR stations at San Francisco, San Jose, and two intermediate stops on the peninsula. Current timetables for CalTrain indicate that local service (a.k.a. stopping at every station) San Francisco to San Jose takes 90 minutes. One hour will get you from SF to Menlo Park. Getting from an arbitrary CalTrain station to an HSR station would likely take 30 minutes or less. You can cut that time dramatically by catching a limited or express CalTrain run, and likely this time will go down for all runs once the electrification of CalTrain is completed.
Let's not forget, either, that where HSR and CalTrain share tracks they would all have to be grade separated. This too will increase the speed and reliability of CalTrain. So, realistically, you're looking at regional improvements that benefit more than a few million people.
Likewise, if you're spending an hour looking for parking, you're doing it wrong. Using public transit, or door to door shuttle service would cut that time down.
You're being overly pessimistic, why? Because you'd prefer we subsidize the airlines? Please. Let's not forget that SFO is near capacity in good weather, but in any inclement weather the runways are structured such that you incur massive delays.
Then you need transportation at the other end, since you probably don't have business near the HSR terminal.
Again, HSR at the San Francisco end is stumbling distance from the financial center of the Bay Area, so, likely yes you do have business nearby.
On the low end, they estimate 18 million riders a year. Ok, dividing 18 million by 365 days leaves you with almost 50,000 passengers a day. Divided by two, that's about 24,000 passengers SF->LA, and 24,000 passengers LA->SF each day. If they run 24 trains s day, leaving each hour, that means 1,000 passengers per hour, every hour, every day.
Seems unlikely.
Why? Single level BART cars can fit around 200 people in a crush load (and about 60 seated), and BART runs 10 car trains regularly -- so roughly 2,000 people max capacity. CalTrain seats anywhere from 80 people (bike car, ugh) to 144 people (plus however many in the aisles). Seven of the latter, two locomotives on either end and you're at 1,000 people.
I thought that was the point of airlines like RyanAir and EasyJet (and for that matter, many other short-haul airliner routes in Europe)?
RyanAir and EasyJet fly into the middle of nowhere, exemplifying the lack of convenience that airlines offer. RyanAir flies into Stansted (London), Baden Baden (Stuttgart), Vatry (Paris), Hahn (Frankfurt -- nearly equidistant to Cologne). That's one of many ways they can keep their ticket prices so low.
I don't know about the LA end of things, but the San Francisco end of the HSR station is intended to be smack in the middle of downtown San Francisco. This would it in the same station as Greyhound (national bus transit), AC Transit (local bus service in the East Bay), SamTrans (local bus service in the Peninsula), and Muni (local bus service in SF, including the arterial N/S and E/W lines). This station is also short walking distance to BART (regional light rail), Muni Metro (local surface and subway streetcar service). Of course, CalTrain (regional heavy rail) doesn't stop there, although there is an effort at getting the HSR authority to follow through on extending the CalTrain tracks to the new station.
Compare this to SFO or OAK which are only served by BART. BART itself offers very poor connections to other lines (except for Muni in downtown SF). BART from OAK now levies a $12 round-trip surcharge for their half billion dollar cable car to the airport (while screaming that they need $5b to fix their existing tracks). BART from SFO levies an $8+ round-trip surcharge and their ballyhooed intermodal station at Millbrae is a joke (no direct service from SFO most of the time).
HSR to downtown SF would be a pretty large improvement in convenience to anyone living in SF or Alameda counties.
isn't going to benefit the good people of Monterey or Boise very much.
So. What. In terms of population served, LA or SF on their own dwarf Monterey and Boise. I think you'll find that air service to either of those towns pales in comparison to that of SF and LA.
The revenue from the collected Federal fuel taxes are deposited into the Highway Trust Fund, which has several accounts. Though the percentages vary depending on the fuel type, the majority (approximately 83 to 87%) is deposited into the Highway Account, to be used on road construction and maintenance. An additional amount (approximately 11 to 15%) goes to the Mass Transit Account, and for many fuels, 0.1 cents per gallon goes to the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.
Ridership on BART's SFO extension (actually all of the San Mateo County extension) is well below their projections (leaving San Mateo County / SamTrans on the hook for operational costs). There's no direct service (well, not usually) from Millbrae to SFO due to work rules and the cost of running such a bloated rail system. You typically have to go from Millbrae -> San Bruno -> SFO. Don't forget that BART doesn't time their schedule to coincide with Caltrain arrivals at Millbrae.
BART already runs to OAK. The shuttle bus drops you at the terminals. The fancy cable car connector you're thinking of is going to cost riders double ($6 each way, they just announced this), and will drop you at the far end of the parking lot, away from the terminals. This is progress?
And Caltrain? Well, there's a shuttle bus between the Santa Clara Caltrain station and the San Jose airport. Because funding public transit is a political football, Caltrain only runs hourly service much of the day. Oh, and despite the recently relocated Caltrain San Bruno station being on the same stretch of road as BART's San Bruno station, they're still about a mile apart (closer than before, but not by much).
It's not the taxis that are to blame for the abysmal public transit to airport scene, it's the folks that design these transit systems (folks like friggin Quentin Kopp).
Complaining about the beta, and how you can't easily opt-out (nobeta=1 is not propagated from the front page, so all links point to the horrific beta).
http://www.themalaysianinsider...... which claims that Rolls did indeed get some engine data, and that MH does pay for ACARS. If MH 370 did turn around, that seems a bit unlike the ZU 522 because the intended flight path was nowhere near the Malacca Straits.
The slashvertisement did mention the technology used in AF 447: ACARS. MH 370 may have been equipped with ACARS as well, but if it was, it would not be transmitting via satellite as there is no sat antenna on the vanished plane (9M-MRO). In fact, Malaysia Air has been pretty cagey about whether or not 9M-MRO had ACARS. If 9M-MRO *did* have ACARS installed, and the information *could have been* received/recorded there's still the question of whether or not Malaysia Air was paying for upkeep. If Malaysia Air (who's been in financial trouble for a while now) was too cheap to pay for ACARS, why would they pay for the slashvertised product?
Hell, 9M-MRO has Rolls Royce engines. Rolls Royce (and likely other engine manufacturers) offers remote health monitoring of their engines. You don't need an additional $100,000 device for basic tracking.
Let's not forget this salient point from the slashvertisement:
Of course, that wouldn’t yield much information if a plane is blown out of the sky by a bomb, or suffers a sudden catastrophic structural failure at cruising altitude. But in those rare cases, conventional black boxes are really the only viable technology.
It's not. The idea is living and working in a town center (or generally just living near where you work). Google, for instance, busses its employes from dense neighborhoods in San Francisco to the middle of nowhere. Were it not for the shuttle busses, a large chunk of these commuters would chose instead to live close to where they work, in the middle of nowhere.
Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are the only states that levy sales tax on groceries. So, yeah, Americans don't generally pay sales tax on food used to prepare meals seems about right.
Ah, Air France. Flight 447? An Etihad Airways pilot with 520 hours of experience flying planes was able to handle a very similar situation with no loss of life. But hey, the west is best
The work in question was either done in-house by American Airlines employees or in a contractor's facility in North Carolina. Unless North Carolina is now part of China, your fear mongering is just that.
One other comment to address a bizarre accusation of hypocrisy that's come up a few times. If you cannot tell the difference between:
- someone tweeting a dick joke on their personal Twitter account, and;
- someone making a dick joke... -...while attending a tech industry conference -...that has a Code of Conduct -...as a representative of a sponsor -...while sitting in the middle of a crowded auditorium -...during a talk that others are trying to listen to -...but still loudly enough to be overheard...if you seriously cannot identify any difference between those two scenarios, I really don't know if I have enough clue to help you. I can check the back room but in those quantities we'll probably have to back-order it.
I can understand the "overreaction" argument. But the "she's a hypocrite because she tweets dick jokes" argument just doesn't even get off the ground. Nor does "she was eavesdropping on a private conversation".
If that doesn't help, how about Richards' own blog post:
What I will share with you here is the backstory that led to this –
The guy behind me to the far left was saying he didn’t find much value from the logging session that day. I agreed with him so I turned around and said so. He then went onto say that an earlier session he’d been to where the speaker was talking about images and visualization with Python was really good, even if it seemed to him the speaker wasn’t really an expert on images. He said he would be interested in forking the repo and continuing development.
That would have been fine until the guy next to him
began making sexual forking jokes
I'll make this real simple: the PlayHaven guys weren't making private jokes, they were responding inappropriately to public comments.
Um, yes. Reread my comments. The only reason it was seen by "thousands and thousands of people" was because someone went looking through her tweets and shared the direct link to it. Unless you were to go explicitly looking for it, it's not readily visible. It's less like leaving a note on a bulletin board and more like leaving a note on the ceiling in front of someone's door. It's there if you look at it, but even if you walk by (follow a twitter user) you wouldn't see it without explicit effort.
Contrast that to the inappropriate jokes being made in response to a public conversation she was having with a third party.
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The SFO ticket price has a surcharge tacked on which is more than the cost of the bus or cable car from the Coliseum station.
Some luck. It's twice the cost of the bus, slower, and drops you further from the terminals and the station.
Bullshit. The substation that was first identified as a problem is a mere months old. Granted, BART is terrible at money management seeking to replace the existing Oakland Airport bus shuttle with a half billion dollar cable car (because reasons). Turns out they don't even have the money to do basic track maintenance.
Turns out the problem is frying fuses on the A&B cars and thyristors on the C cars.
Because Dice bought /.
Stansted is indeed in the middle of nowhere, and generally more expensive to get to than Heathrow (tube vs National Rail). You could do worse than RyanAir quite easily (ex: United, Air France, LionAir, Asiana, Air Koryo).
There are planned HSR stations at San Francisco, San Jose, and two intermediate stops on the peninsula. Current timetables for CalTrain indicate that local service (a.k.a. stopping at every station) San Francisco to San Jose takes 90 minutes. One hour will get you from SF to Menlo Park. Getting from an arbitrary CalTrain station to an HSR station would likely take 30 minutes or less. You can cut that time dramatically by catching a limited or express CalTrain run, and likely this time will go down for all runs once the electrification of CalTrain is completed.
Let's not forget, either, that where HSR and CalTrain share tracks they would all have to be grade separated. This too will increase the speed and reliability of CalTrain. So, realistically, you're looking at regional improvements that benefit more than a few million people.
Likewise, if you're spending an hour looking for parking, you're doing it wrong. Using public transit, or door to door shuttle service would cut that time down.
You're being overly pessimistic, why? Because you'd prefer we subsidize the airlines? Please. Let's not forget that SFO is near capacity in good weather, but in any inclement weather the runways are structured such that you incur massive delays.
Again, HSR at the San Francisco end is stumbling distance from the financial center of the Bay Area, so, likely yes you do have business nearby.
Why? Single level BART cars can fit around 200 people in a crush load (and about 60 seated), and BART runs 10 car trains regularly -- so roughly 2,000 people max capacity. CalTrain seats anywhere from 80 people (bike car, ugh) to 144 people (plus however many in the aisles). Seven of the latter, two locomotives on either end and you're at 1,000 people.
RyanAir and EasyJet fly into the middle of nowhere, exemplifying the lack of convenience that airlines offer. RyanAir flies into Stansted (London), Baden Baden (Stuttgart), Vatry (Paris), Hahn (Frankfurt -- nearly equidistant to Cologne). That's one of many ways they can keep their ticket prices so low.
I don't know about the LA end of things, but the San Francisco end of the HSR station is intended to be smack in the middle of downtown San Francisco. This would it in the same station as Greyhound (national bus transit), AC Transit (local bus service in the East Bay), SamTrans (local bus service in the Peninsula), and Muni (local bus service in SF, including the arterial N/S and E/W lines). This station is also short walking distance to BART (regional light rail), Muni Metro (local surface and subway streetcar service). Of course, CalTrain (regional heavy rail) doesn't stop there, although there is an effort at getting the HSR authority to follow through on extending the CalTrain tracks to the new station.
Compare this to SFO or OAK which are only served by BART. BART itself offers very poor connections to other lines (except for Muni in downtown SF). BART from OAK now levies a $12 round-trip surcharge for their half billion dollar cable car to the airport (while screaming that they need $5b to fix their existing tracks). BART from SFO levies an $8+ round-trip surcharge and their ballyhooed intermodal station at Millbrae is a joke (no direct service from SFO most of the time).
HSR to downtown SF would be a pretty large improvement in convenience to anyone living in SF or Alameda counties.
So. What. In terms of population served, LA or SF on their own dwarf Monterey and Boise. I think you'll find that air service to either of those towns pales in comparison to that of SF and LA.
And you'd be wrong.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/motor...
Ridership on BART's SFO extension (actually all of the San Mateo County extension) is well below their projections (leaving San Mateo County / SamTrans on the hook for operational costs). There's no direct service (well, not usually) from Millbrae to SFO due to work rules and the cost of running such a bloated rail system. You typically have to go from Millbrae -> San Bruno -> SFO. Don't forget that BART doesn't time their schedule to coincide with Caltrain arrivals at Millbrae.
BART already runs to OAK. The shuttle bus drops you at the terminals. The fancy cable car connector you're thinking of is going to cost riders double ($6 each way, they just announced this), and will drop you at the far end of the parking lot, away from the terminals. This is progress?
And Caltrain? Well, there's a shuttle bus between the Santa Clara Caltrain station and the San Jose airport. Because funding public transit is a political football, Caltrain only runs hourly service much of the day. Oh, and despite the recently relocated Caltrain San Bruno station being on the same stretch of road as BART's San Bruno station, they're still about a mile apart (closer than before, but not by much).
It's not the taxis that are to blame for the abysmal public transit to airport scene, it's the folks that design these transit systems (folks like friggin Quentin Kopp).
Seriously?
Complaining about the beta, and how you can't easily opt-out (nobeta=1 is not propagated from the front page, so all links point to the horrific beta).
Duh.
The latest I've seen was this:
http://www.themalaysianinsider... ... which claims that Rolls did indeed get some engine data, and that MH does pay for ACARS. If MH 370 did turn around, that seems a bit unlike the ZU 522 because the intended flight path was nowhere near the Malacca Straits.
The slashvertisement did mention the technology used in AF 447: ACARS. MH 370 may have been equipped with ACARS as well, but if it was, it would not be transmitting via satellite as there is no sat antenna on the vanished plane (9M-MRO). In fact, Malaysia Air has been pretty cagey about whether or not 9M-MRO had ACARS. If 9M-MRO *did* have ACARS installed, and the information *could have been* received/recorded there's still the question of whether or not Malaysia Air was paying for upkeep. If Malaysia Air (who's been in financial trouble for a while now) was too cheap to pay for ACARS, why would they pay for the slashvertised product?
Hell, 9M-MRO has Rolls Royce engines. Rolls Royce (and likely other engine manufacturers) offers remote health monitoring of their engines. You don't need an additional $100,000 device for basic tracking.
Let's not forget this salient point from the slashvertisement:
It's not. The idea is living and working in a town center (or generally just living near where you work). Google, for instance, busses its employes from dense neighborhoods in San Francisco to the middle of nowhere. Were it not for the shuttle busses, a large chunk of these commuters would chose instead to live close to where they work, in the middle of nowhere.
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/01/21/study-40-percent-of-s-f-shuttle-riders-would-move-without-chartered-bus-service/
Don't forget the tab completion and sh prompt integration.
https://github.com/git/git/tre...
You mean except for the Classic, LC (Low Cost), and Centris model lines, right?
Somalia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States
According to Wikipedia:
Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are the only states that levy sales tax on groceries. So, yeah, Americans don't generally pay sales tax on food used to prepare meals seems about right.
Ah, Air France. Flight 447? An Etihad Airways pilot with 520 hours of experience flying planes was able to handle a very similar situation with no loss of life. But hey, the west is best
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5722038/
Uh. No.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2012/10/03/american-airlines-seats/1610189/
The work in question was either done in-house by American Airlines employees or in a contractor's facility in North Carolina. Unless North Carolina is now part of China, your fear mongering is just that.
How about a third group: enjoys crass humor, knows the time and the place for it is not a talk at a tech conference.
She wasn't eavesdropping.
Avdi Grimm said it best:
If that doesn't help, how about Richards' own blog post:
I'll make this real simple: the PlayHaven guys weren't making private jokes, they were responding inappropriately to public comments.
Um, yes. Reread my comments. The only reason it was seen by "thousands and thousands of people" was because someone went looking through her tweets and shared the direct link to it. Unless you were to go explicitly looking for it, it's not readily visible. It's less like leaving a note on a bulletin board and more like leaving a note on the ceiling in front of someone's door. It's there if you look at it, but even if you walk by (follow a twitter user) you wouldn't see it without explicit effort.
Contrast that to the inappropriate jokes being made in response to a public conversation she was having with a third party.