Sunni/shia war is 1000 years old and will go on for another 1000. The Brits stopped it for a century by drawing arbitrary lines, but now that's fading from significance they are back at it.
Ticket prices? That has nothing to do with anything.
The usual 'lie with statistics' method to make your point is by showing that landing fees don't cover the cost of airports. Of course that's a big fat lie, it ignores the parking fees the airport also collects from passengers and the profit it makes selling fuel (or leasing the space to a private sector fuel supplier).
All the major airports in the USA operate at a profit for their 'sponsoring' cities. They pay the bonds issued to build them and return money to the local general fund.
Cyclists get as much room as cars. About a meter (distance from passenger side to drivers side). Maybe less, if the road is narrow. They don't get a car width of clearance any more than a car does.
If someone can't hold their lane, it is 100% their fault. Just as with cars
If traffic is doing 50 I don't recommend changing lanes with less than 100 feet between you and the following car. Just like a car pulling away from a curb can't jump in front of moving traffic and complain about getting rear ended. It's your job to make the lane change safely. You might actually have to stop instead.
Deliberate? I thought I saw a road hazard.
It is not illegal to slow down. If you are behind me, it's your job to maintain a safe following distance.
The main facility that can be upgraded is getting 'road bikes' off the road. There is no way to safely ride 100psi+ tire bikes on the street with cars. They basically have to swerve around every bit of glass in the bike lane and are rolling, left and right lurching hazards with unsafely long stopping distances.
If you need to get out of the bike lane, it is your job to make sure it is safe to switch lanes, same as a car. You can't just jump into the main traffic lane in front of a car and complain the car was going too fast. You made an unsafe lane change.
Ride in the traffic lane if you must, but don't think it's your lane just because it's beside you. Also don't complain when cars 'brake check' you going up hills. That's just payback for you slowing them down.
Many cyclists seam to think they have the right of way any time the alternative is they lose their inertia.
Wait a second, you see getting fucked over by GMAC as an ADVANTAGE? I bet you think getting fucked by a stealership is an advantage too?
Automotive finance divisions are for subsidized loans or getting fucked over. If your credit is so bad you go to GMAC for other than 0% financing you can't afford an electric car.
In CA in general, your best bet is to have a commuter car that looks really REALLY uninsured. Multi color primer etc. The nicer the car, the faster it gets out of your way.
The cops can check your insurance with their dash computer. Driving such a beater you see it happen, so don't be an idiot and carry insurance.
I imagine people with their whole ego tied to their cars must be constantly stressed. 25% of CA drivers actually don't carry insurance.
A cyclist has no more legal right to jump lanes than a car. If you can't stop before you get to the branch, you are riding too fast. If you can't hold your lane, you are riding too fast for conditions.
Newtons laws have stiff punishments, so don't swerve in front of cars thinking they have an obligation to avoid you. You heirs will have to pay for a new grill for the car.
Upgrade struts are cheap. Made in China cheap. While you're in there do all the bushings with polyurethane. The car will drive better than new. (For definitions of better='more racey'). Suspension links don't wear out. They might be broken. You will have to inspect each of them while replacing the bushings. You will also need a $99 harbor freight hydraulic press and $40 spring compressors. Possible without the press, but don't. You will also need an alignment when done, so budget for it. Total cost, including tools (which I already had) for my beater Civic was $600 + alignment. Obviously check the ball joints and tie rod ends while assembling/disassembling.
Of course you can replace the parts with stock, if you like mush.
If your car is as bad as you describe, it's unsafe in a corner with potholes too. 'You ARE a menace to society.' Fix that shit.
I should note: Once SF has finished spending it's budget to _not_ upgrade the CalTrain right of way, HSR will stop at the southern terminal anyhow. They will bitch and moan and demand the feds give them more money to continue not upgrading the right of way.
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Sunni/shia war is 1000 years old and will go on for another 1000. The Brits stopped it for a century by drawing arbitrary lines, but now that's fading from significance they are back at it.
Unless the cities get their share of the money directly, they won't support it. Making it a non-starter.
It's OK though. They will take their share of the money, not fix shit, then run the HSR from outside SF to outside LA.
The OP said it wrong. It's not the distances covered, it's the population density.
Ticket prices? That has nothing to do with anything.
The usual 'lie with statistics' method to make your point is by showing that landing fees don't cover the cost of airports. Of course that's a big fat lie, it ignores the parking fees the airport also collects from passengers and the profit it makes selling fuel (or leasing the space to a private sector fuel supplier).
All the major airports in the USA operate at a profit for their 'sponsoring' cities. They pay the bonds issued to build them and return money to the local general fund.
Cyclists get as much room as cars. About a meter (distance from passenger side to drivers side). Maybe less, if the road is narrow. They don't get a car width of clearance any more than a car does.
If someone can't hold their lane, it is 100% their fault. Just as with cars
If traffic is doing 50 I don't recommend changing lanes with less than 100 feet between you and the following car. Just like a car pulling away from a curb can't jump in front of moving traffic and complain about getting rear ended. It's your job to make the lane change safely. You might actually have to stop instead.
Deliberate? I thought I saw a road hazard.
It is not illegal to slow down. If you are behind me, it's your job to maintain a safe following distance.
The main facility that can be upgraded is getting 'road bikes' off the road. There is no way to safely ride 100psi+ tire bikes on the street with cars. They basically have to swerve around every bit of glass in the bike lane and are rolling, left and right lurching hazards with unsafely long stopping distances.
A Sanders nomination would be a disaster. No more gridlock as the Republicans have at least 2 years to party and spend like Democrats.
Federal Budgets start in the house.
Who ran the house during the periods you mention?
If they take the money from the President of Mexico's boss (the drug cartels) there will be hell to pay.
Now he thinks he can set budgets with EOs?
What next?
Old R. Feynman joke.
'Quantum mechanics says there is a chance it will fall up, When it does, I don't want to miss it.'
If you need to get out of the bike lane, it is your job to make sure it is safe to switch lanes, same as a car. You can't just jump into the main traffic lane in front of a car and complain the car was going too fast. You made an unsafe lane change.
Ride in the traffic lane if you must, but don't think it's your lane just because it's beside you. Also don't complain when cars 'brake check' you going up hills. That's just payback for you slowing them down.
Many cyclists seam to think they have the right of way any time the alternative is they lose their inertia.
Sure, all you need is 100% efficient solar cells and shape where all sides point at the sun at all times.
Wait a second, you see getting fucked over by GMAC as an ADVANTAGE? I bet you think getting fucked by a stealership is an advantage too?
Automotive finance divisions are for subsidized loans or getting fucked over. If your credit is so bad you go to GMAC for other than 0% financing you can't afford an electric car.
What advantage would stacking them have over a bigger one?
That gets you to A-380 wingspan. Will that be sufficient?
In the end, putting lighter than air gasses into an airplane is like filling a bike tire with helium to save weight. Waste of helium, time and effort.
Cost. Turbines cost a fortune vs. pistons.
Power to weight ratio and reliability are the positives.
I don't think an air cooled piston engine at the large helicopter scale is even possible.
So you knew you were wrong when you posted?
There are people who just commute in brand new full ton duely trucks. Those people are morons, as dumb as any Cayenne owner.
But the majority of those class of trucks are working vehicles, they generate revenue and run for a half million miles.
More in the Bobcat then the Tesla league.
In CA in general, your best bet is to have a commuter car that looks really REALLY uninsured. Multi color primer etc. The nicer the car, the faster it gets out of your way.
The cops can check your insurance with their dash computer. Driving such a beater you see it happen, so don't be an idiot and carry insurance.
I imagine people with their whole ego tied to their cars must be constantly stressed. 25% of CA drivers actually don't carry insurance.
Good thing most English cars are only half a car wide/long.
A cyclist has no more legal right to jump lanes than a car. If you can't stop before you get to the branch, you are riding too fast. If you can't hold your lane, you are riding too fast for conditions.
Newtons laws have stiff punishments, so don't swerve in front of cars thinking they have an obligation to avoid you. You heirs will have to pay for a new grill for the car.
Depends on where you are in Europe.
Germany absolutely, though they do have some bad drivers too (my Aunt for example is a hazard).
But the Frogs? The Italians? They are almost Mumbai bad drivers. As you say check the accident rates. Be sure to check the per mile driven ones.
The Finns are in a class by themselves of course, generally good drivers, but they all think their name is Raikkonen.
There are many unlined roads in the USA as well. Massholes and Kansans also need to be called out as Mumbai bad drivers, though for opposite reasons.
Upgrade struts are cheap. Made in China cheap. While you're in there do all the bushings with polyurethane. The car will drive better than new. (For definitions of better='more racey'). Suspension links don't wear out. They might be broken. You will have to inspect each of them while replacing the bushings. You will also need a $99 harbor freight hydraulic press and $40 spring compressors. Possible without the press, but don't. You will also need an alignment when done, so budget for it. Total cost, including tools (which I already had) for my beater Civic was $600 + alignment. Obviously check the ball joints and tie rod ends while assembling/disassembling.
Of course you can replace the parts with stock, if you like mush.
If your car is as bad as you describe, it's unsafe in a corner with potholes too. 'You ARE a menace to society.' Fix that shit.
Or an informal 100 MPH limit on I-5 down the central valley of California. As long as you have CA plates of course. Texans should not attempt.
I should note: Once SF has finished spending it's budget to _not_ upgrade the CalTrain right of way, HSR will stop at the southern terminal anyhow. They will bitch and moan and demand the feds give them more money to continue not upgrading the right of way.