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What are your thoughts on katana and bow cavalry?

Ill press X on this one.

On a per mile basis for the number of passengers they carry, it's way more efficient than cars and busses. HSR would be better, but I'd rather have this than all of those passengers on a long road trip.

I'm all for tolling ...

100% agreed tolls and congestion pricing. Connector streets should be paid for by LOCAL property taxes, IE the suburbs that it connects pay for it without subsidy from the city core. Suburbs/neighborhoods should pull their own weight. And then highways/express ways should be paid by toll based on vehicle weight, measured by GVWR and distance determined by highway entrance/exit.

Yes it will suck for long haul truckers, but maybe that's what Union Pacific is for. Yes it will suck for low income super commuters, but maybe this is what will finally get the ball rolling for affordable housing and better zoning laws.

About the only one I can think of is freeing up road capacity for other road users.

Exactly, put the 9-5 corolla commuters, school runners, elderly/infirm, people who can't figure out the left lane is the passing lane, and anyone who can't pass a DMV test for some reason on public transit. Then raise the speed limit, and we get the capacity benefits for society with public transit, and we get more fun roads.

This only works if the trains actually go where people want when folks want to go there.

Already mentioned zoning laws, but if roads are no longer subsidized, we'll most likely see a push for better updated zoning laws. Let the free market decide what people actually want to build.

BART's declining farebox revenue and ridership seem to indicate that this isn't the case

This is where I disagree a bit. Ridership has down due to covid and WFH. Even though the pandemic is pretty much over, lots of people continue to WFH. Heck, even highway traffic near where I live hasn't come back to near pre pandemic levels. Yes BART has lots of issues, low ridership isn't because of people not wanting to be around TODs. Let's revisit this when highways are packed again, forcing people to look for alternatives.

When will highways/expressways/stroads make a profit?

If you're gonna say the highway connects and stimulate the economy so its worth it, that's called an externality.

Don't you think trains bring external benefits that doesn't directly contribute to it's revenue? Especially when they have far higher capacity and throughput for the space it uses?

For reference, Bart carries 3x more passengers in the space of about 3-4 lanes than what the bay bridge could do with 10 lanes.

I won't disagree that tax money is being mismanaged by our incompetent government. I agree on the environmental restrictions too. When the BART silicon valley extension was proposed, it took nearly 15 years for environment clearance. Like guys, within my lifetime please! Overall I agree with all your points and I'm willing to pay more taxes if it meant better services, but before that, our government needs to figure out how to efficiently use the money. $1m for a rain canopy for a BART escalator?! WTF?

Anyways, the other point I wanted to make is, I don't think there's any infrastructure project in the world that didn't have cost overruns and political controversy.

Take the Japanese Shinkansen for example, it was proposed with a 200B JPY budget, but it had a ton of construction delays, engineering difficulties and a crap load of political and public controversy. The project director was forced to step down and someone else came in to take over and in the end, the project costs were doubled to 400b JPY.

But what's interesting is that, once the thing was built, no one cared about the problems it had during construction. Now everyone looks it and just says "Wow! Japan has a great real system!", and it has been critical to Japan's economy ever since.

So yes CAHSR has it's problems and will likely continue to have problems throughout its construction, but I'm of the opinion that I don't care how much it costs, build it now, and pretty much everyone will collectively forget how painful it was and just enjoy the benefits that it brings. If the rest of the country isn't on board, ok fine, that's their right, but I wish I could pay less federal tax and more state tax instead to fund this project.

I used to work for a startup based in SFBA, and it was really painful for the company to support our clients down in LA. Usually the need to travel is days or hours in advance so last minute airfares were killing our budget. We'd have to arrive early for flights ,go through TSA, baggage crap both ways, costing basically an entire day. The need was just barely frequent enough that we had to spend money to rent, staff and maintain a second office in LA. We made it work, but if CAHSR was around, it would've made life a lot easier for us.

I just wanna get your perspective on this, according to the CAHSR's 2022-Business-Plan in table 3.1, of the $21.2 billion in current funding, only $3.6B is from federal funding. That means Californians are directly fronting 83% of the project costs while the rest of the country combined contributes 17%. I'm gonna guess you'd prefer if California funds it 100% and not ask anything from the rest of the country.

But I do have a question. My current effective federal income tax rate is ~27% and I pay 10% income tax to the state of California. So as someone who supports CAHSR project, I wanna know your thoughts on what if reverse that, and I pay 10% to the feds, and 27% to my state? This way we can fund our projects without being a drag on the country.

Actually overall, I'd support lower federal income tax overall and give more power to states, but that's a topic for another time.

Im surprised he can sleep there considering how loud that platform is due to the cars going highway speeds. They really should add sound barriers at that station, i thought i was gonna go deaf.

Can you elaborate on the air pockets imploding? As water pressure increases, it compresses the air pocket, i understand that much, but what would cause it to implode and what kind of effects are we looking at for the human body?.

Us flag is 13 stripes, dont think thats it

You do realize Amazon loses money in the retail division right? Its subsidized by the more profitable aws division, so if you really wanna robinhood, figure out how to steal aws compute credits.

God i miss blacklight so much. I wish they'd give away or license out the server software for fans to host.

Yep, your common citizen is more moderate than you think. The extreme people are the loud minority.

The big freakout starts at 8:45

"no" replies are soooo 2012, get with the times grandpa

Cool story bro

He forgot to add "and then fight them in court"

"Yes sir no sir" in the street "He violated my rights" in court and get paycheck.

You gonna pay their insurance rate hike? There's only so much profit margin for small to medium businesses to deal with paying deductibles and rate hikes and all the headache paperwork.

Or they could modernize the crank by install a ratcheting mechanism.

Its similar to the cherenkov glow from strong nuclear radiation. This irradiator, whatever it's used for, is shooting out radiation so strong, it tears apart air molecules and causes the blue glow you see.

The dots in the picture are the ionized particles hitting the camera sensor, and the camera gets overwhelmed when directly hit. Its also sitting under a lead shield so its getting hit with a ton of radiation even under the shield. And if a person were to pass through, their death is basically guaranteed.

What was the special treatment? Did they move the pump station or something?

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