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- From: fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu (Aaron Priven)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Bringing CalTrain to Market St. (or nearby)
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 05:37:39 GMT
- References: <murphy.727799200@well.sf.ca.us> <1555@dosbears>
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- In article <1555@dosbears> dosbears!mikel@pyramid.com writes:
- >In article <murphy.727799200@well.sf.ca.us> murphy@well.sf.ca.us (Daniel A. Murphy) writes:
- >>
- >Extending CalTrain to Market Street is a more complex problem. A
- >subway route would be quite expensive and would, additionally,
- >require electrification of CalTrain (which is, I think, planned.)
- >A surface route would be politically unfeasible.
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- What about an elevated route? It's not as expensive as a subway and I
- think there's more than enough clearance under the Bay Bridge. And
- it would be only a few blocks in what is not considered the swankiest
- part of town.
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- =Aaron=
- --
- Aaron Priven, fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu
- Bring in the workers, and bring up the rails;
- We're gonna lay down the tracks, and tear up the trails.
- Open her heart, let the life-blood flow,
- Gotta get on our way 'cause we're movin' too slow.
- -- Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy"
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