[ba-ohs-talk] Eric Running for Office
Murray, (01)
Fear not, Eric would be an enlightened candidate with correct views.
The tunnel under the Channel has a rail, so by all means "Lets rail." (02)
Rod (03)
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Murray Altheim wrote:
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> Rod Welch wrote:
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> [...]
> > How about a couple of tunnels between SF and the North Bay, and one to
> > the East Bay, like Bechtel constructed between France and England?
>
> This one has me angry. They've just started building the new Bay
> Bridge (between Oakland and San Francisco, for those not familiar
> with the area), and the planners voted down any proposal to add
> a center lane that would have been a train track. It seems absolute
> stupidity to build a *new* bridge and not have a track to enable
> mass transit. This isn't 1950. Whoever is responsible for this
> decision should be voted out of office and *then* put in a pillory.
> Stupidity should be painful (this was the bumper sticker on my car,
> before I sold it to move to the UK).
>
> Murray
>
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> Murray Altheim <mailto:m.altheim @ open.ac.uk>
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