Posts Tagged ‘Commuting’

We don’t need CalTrain for bullet trains, says HSR

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 16:20 No Comments

California’s High Speed Rail Commission, the agency tasked with getting bullet trains running up and down the state sometime this century, says CalTrain’s “staggering deficit” and possible collapse will not keep it from proceeding with its plans.
Just because the local transit agency, which runs trains from San Francisco to San Jose (and Gilroy, at commute [...]

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ZOMG! 2.5 Bil for High Speed Rail from Anaheim to SF

Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:59 No Comments

The ZOMG is actually more in reference to the giddiness I would feel at being able to hop on a train/monorail/whatever the hell they come up with and be in SF in something under three hours.
2.5 billion sounds impressive until you hear the figure the entire project is supposed to cost, which is somewhere in [...]

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Traffic Nightmare in Laguna Beach

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 14:51 No Comments

Did anyone else get stuck in this mess this morning? It took me an hour and five minutes to go about 15 miles (Dana Point to Fashion Island). Needless to say I was 45 minutes late for my dentist appointment. If you need to travel on PCH you may want to check to see if [...]

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Metrolink FTL

Monday, November 23, 2009 9:24 No Comments

You guys remember a while back when I posted about my awesome trip to The Valley aboard the Metrolink? I even had another one just a couple months ago where I utilized the Gold Line to Pasadena! Both trips were fairly easy and made it so I didn’t have to drive through traffic. [...]

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Psych! Bridge reopens at 9:00 this morning

Monday, November 2, 2009 9:41 No Comments

After announcing the Bay Bridge would not reopen in time for the morning commute, CalTrans announced about 8:20 this morning that the bridge would be reopening by 9:00 a.m. The reopening follows five and a half days of blame, angst, repair, testing and inspection after a previous emergency fix broke last week on Tuesday afternoon.

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