Comments on: Short List http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/ Mass Transit's editor, Leah Harnack, speaks weekly on critical issues facing the public transportation industry. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: J.Drake http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4271 J.Drake Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:37:08 +0000 http://www.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4271 Parallel Bar Therapy. ha..ha.. Good one, Gunnar. Parallel Bar Therapy. ha..ha.. Good one, Gunnar.

]]> By: Gunnar Henrioulle http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4256 Gunnar Henrioulle Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:31:54 +0000 http://www.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4256 Reno-Lake Tahoe Olympic Committee has been straining at this goal for decades, never could get out of "Do-It-On-The-Cheap" syndrome. Railway precedent is wonderful in Reno & the Carson Valley; streetcars in Reno, Truckee to Tahoe City trains actually ran out on a pier to meet boats. Progress traded these things for subservience to imported oil. Happy motoring! Fortunately for the people in Carson City, the old Virginia & Truckee corridor is somewhat intact, so an electric railway can eventually connect the State Capitol of Nevada with the rail main & airport in Reno. This wicked generation of penny-pinching electeds & transport planning is about to be swept aside by realities of energy supply. About time. A few will change hats in time to finish their careers, the ones that get Peaking Oil savvy ASAP, and look at websites like "spv.co.uk" so they can be the ones in the meetings that are rail corridor savvy. Try also, Richard Heinberg's "Museletter 185"- On the California side, CalTrans Director Will Kempton has old (unabridged) copies of the 1995 Tahoe-Reno I-80/US50 Rail Corridor Study. Later Editions dropped discussion and details of rail on the US50 Corridor. Rail actually looks quite good on the 50 route, with plenteous hydropower enroute. These rail features were unceremoniously dismissed by the Olympics wannabes in the Tahoe region; they were fronts for the road gang, truth be told! The smart ones are changing their tune... Olympics Committees are respectfully directed to "The Association For The Study Of Peak Oil & Gas" (peakoil.net) Newsletters 42 & 89, articles 374 & 1037, respectively. Parallel Bar Therapy. Reno-Lake Tahoe Olympic Committee has been straining at this goal for decades, never could get out of “Do-It-On-The-Cheap” syndrome. Railway precedent is wonderful in Reno & the Carson Valley; streetcars in Reno, Truckee to Tahoe City trains actually ran out on a pier to meet boats. Progress traded these things for subservience to imported oil. Happy motoring!

Fortunately for the people in Carson City, the old Virginia & Truckee corridor is somewhat intact, so an electric railway can eventually connect the State Capitol of Nevada with the rail main & airport in Reno.

This wicked generation of penny-pinching electeds & transport planning is about to be swept aside by realities of energy supply. About time. A few will change hats in time to finish their careers, the ones that get Peaking Oil savvy ASAP, and look at websites like “spv.co.uk” so they can be the ones in the meetings that are rail corridor savvy. Try also, Richard Heinberg’s “Museletter 185″-

On the California side, CalTrans Director Will Kempton has old (unabridged) copies of the 1995 Tahoe-Reno I-80/US50 Rail Corridor Study. Later Editions dropped discussion and details of rail on the US50 Corridor. Rail actually looks quite good on the 50 route, with plenteous hydropower enroute. These rail features were unceremoniously dismissed by the Olympics wannabes in the Tahoe region; they were fronts for the road gang, truth be told! The smart ones are changing their tune…

Olympics Committees are respectfully directed to “The Association For The Study Of Peak Oil & Gas” (peakoil.net) Newsletters 42 & 89, articles 374 & 1037, respectively. Parallel Bar Therapy.

]]> By: J.Drake http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4239 J.Drake Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:39:01 +0000 http://www.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4239 They came in third in tech. review. Chicago won't get the bid. I concur, they should plan transit for the citizens, not some committee. I remember the limerick of my youth..."CHICken on A car, car can't GO...that's how you spell Chicago". Seems nothing else is moving in this city, either. They came in third in tech. review. Chicago won’t get the bid. I concur, they should plan transit for the citizens, not some committee. I remember the limerick of my youth…”CHICken on A car, car can’t GO…that’s how you spell Chicago”. Seems nothing else is moving in this city, either.

]]> By: Dave Reid http://o.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4235 Dave Reid Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:13:07 +0000 http://www.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2008/06/19/short-list/#comment-4235 Specifically there is some belief in Milwaukee that if Chicago gets the bid there will be more support for building a rail line that would run from Milwaukee to Kenosha and hook up with METRA from Chicago. This idea seems pretty far fetched to me but anything to help jump start rail in Milwaukee is a plus! Specifically there is some belief in Milwaukee that if Chicago gets the bid there will be more support for building a rail line that would run from Milwaukee to Kenosha and hook up with METRA from Chicago. This idea seems pretty far fetched to me but anything to help jump start rail in Milwaukee is a plus!

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