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05-08-2021, 10:02 AM #35101
Benny, you would have called it Clinton's Ditch.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-08-2021, 10:12 AM #35102
Raises hand.
I’d consider jobs further away if I could take public transit. I lived in NYC for five years and that is my standard. If I could access a train stop less than a mile from my home and get me to a stop less than a mile from my work, I would be all over it. Even if I had to drive a bit to get to said stop by my house. I hate commuting in a car.
As for recreation, it would be harder. But always though a Friday night train up to Truckee from SF would be great. Especially if you can get a free shuttle once up there to slopeside or shuttle stop lodging.
Mammoth has a great transit system that works great once you get to town. Never a need to get in your car. Even post COVId.
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05-08-2021, 10:24 AM #35103
Don’t tram cars count as public transportation?
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05-08-2021, 10:31 AM #35104
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05-08-2021, 10:40 AM #35105
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05-08-2021, 11:27 AM #35106Registered User
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Public transit never worked for the job i had and it doesnt work up here
I did fly into YVR, took publice trans everywhere and enjoyed it
much more euro with LRT to the airportLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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05-08-2021, 11:47 AM #35107
I'm not surprised you didn't pay attention to this: https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...mtlodge-sedrun .
As far as "matter", I'm with iceman on that one. Everything matters as long as we take it in stride.
I just reject the idea that rural life universally increases greenhouse gases, that there should be no development outside of urban areas.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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05-08-2021, 12:20 PM #35108?
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I had a gig in downtown Chicago long ago. The building was right next to the train station. I was in a nice extended stay about 40 miles west of down town. It was okay. But for the past 14 years I have worked from home. I like this way better. Now with the face to face video I'm forced to bathe and put on decent clothes before I plop down at my workstation.
Seems like a win for everyone. I wonder if any large company will go back to the way it wasOwn your fail. ~Jer~
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05-08-2021, 01:55 PM #35109Rod9301
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05-08-2021, 02:05 PM #35110click here
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Passenger car has relatively high passenger miles per gallon. Better than the average bus.
https://afdc.energy.gov/conserve/mass_transit.html
Car also rates highly for convenience - it's always departing immediately from close by. (Also a healthier option in the once per century pandemic.)
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05-08-2021, 03:05 PM #35111Registered User
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05-08-2021, 03:13 PM #35112
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Most people can’t work from home you moron
Oh, I’m amazed that there’s a Fred Meyer in Juneau. Is there a Walmart in Ketchikan?
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05-08-2021, 03:15 PM #35113
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05-08-2021, 04:03 PM #35114
One of the things about cars that the average person probably never considers is how much real estate they consume. In the US the area for parking cars exceeds the housing area per person.
When I was working in development, the city traffic woman told me that there are an average of 7.5 car trips per day per household. I joked that who hasn't left their car at the bar after last call, but she wasn't amused.
So cars could be more efficient than the bus, but the majority are unnecessary single person trips to multiple spots of pavement that serve no other purpose.
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05-08-2021, 05:11 PM #35115
Cars are only more efficient than the bus in the US because so many buses are empty. Because they don't come often enough. Because it's hard to justify a bus every 10 minutes when nobody rides the bus. The trick is getting enough people to ride the bus to justify increasing service which will get more people to ride the bus etc. I don't think it will ever happen.
In Europe, DC and NYC we've always used public transportation and wish it was more practical here.
Flying to Europe from SFO we take train to east bay, Bart to the airport (I think it requires a transfer, don't remember). Time is comparable to driving and a lot less nerve wracking. And cheaper than parking near the airport.
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05-08-2021, 07:02 PM #35116I see hydraulic turtles.
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05-08-2021, 09:10 PM #35117
OMG! There is life after covid!
Some fully vaxxed friends stopped by this evening and we had the most wonderful time visiting sans masks like there had never been a pandemic. Sigh.“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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05-08-2021, 10:18 PM #35118click here
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Got around to reading that. That author is vulnerable to "attacking the source," though I agree the argument is well laid out. Gotta go rewatch the recent furin TWiV now. Also I see the MSM has picked up the story, WSJ in particular.
True or not, it's primed for an endless dumpster fire of conspiracy theories. Last few paragraphs particularly dumped speculative gasoline on said fire.
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05-08-2021, 11:33 PM #35119
But be sure to see mofro's take on it as well.
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05-08-2021, 11:51 PM #35120
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05-09-2021, 02:15 AM #35121
This seems like a very apt criticism of an intentionally-designed Sar-bola, but not really a rejection of the hypothesis that a bunch of "possible" mutations might have been synthesized and one of them got past the level 2 PPE. After all, if you're trying to predict, why not all of the above? They could have just gotten unlucky on the one example and not the others, right?
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05-09-2021, 11:14 AM #35122
Question for lab guys like Mofro et al. Let's say I got my lair finished (laser tables have been backed up, but I have contacts in shipping). And I'm leaning toward a bio threat instead of a dirty bomb (lasts too long) or hiring a bunch of hackers (rising labor costs). If I hired you to make a pandemic virus that no one would suspect, would you recommend optimizing the furry cleavage site for humans or would something like the SARS2 be good enough and not raise suspicion?
Asking for a friend.
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05-09-2021, 11:31 AM #35123
Can one of you smart dentists explain Texas to me? I just read since March 10th, when all restrictions were lifted, both active infections and hospitalizations have fallen y nearly half..... Is that due to vax rates or what?
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05-09-2021, 01:58 PM #35124
I'm not the one to answer your question, but why invest in a personal bioterror lab when you could go to work for the DOD and make good money?
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05-09-2021, 02:07 PM #35125
Yup, and it's not just too few buses on existing routes. Existing routes often don't get people close enough to their destination to make transit worthwhile. When I couldn't drive due to knee injury a few yrs ago I tried mapping out a transit route from home to work. The best option would take 2:15hrs including 1 local bus to a transit hub, an express bus, then 2 more local buses. I was still 1.5mi from work which wasn't bad except it was a busy road with no sidewalk : (. I could normally drive to work in 15-20min depending on traffic. If transit only gets you 80% of the way there or takes significantly longer people won't do it. It's the same problem mentioned above - adequate routes don't exist so people don't take the bus. How can you justify more routes when existing ones aren't highly used?
I don't think we'll ever get to the point where transit is efficient for everyone. But we can make it better for a lot of people with better route planning and adding frequent service between major transit hubs and employment centers. Getting as many people off the road in rush hour will make the biggest difference. Personally I'd like to see funds from major projects like new train lines be spent on upgrading bus service instead. Train lines take years or decades to design, fund and build and once constructed they can't adapt as population changes in a region. Buses are relatively cheap and you can put them on the road once delivered. And it's easy to change routes as needed.
That or make parking expensive so that the math changes on what is the most economical way to commute. If I had to work downtown I'd find a way to use transit for sure. Parking is $20/day or more most places downtown.
Oh, they will build it. California hi-speed rail is justified as an alternative to flying from LA to SF. But look at all the stops planned in between and tell me this isn't going to enable massive urban sprawl in the Central valley for people commuting by rail to the Bay Area or LA. Too much money to be made on real estate development along the rail corridor.
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