Subj : Re: Kill 'em all; let god sort 'em out
To   : Atreyu
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Oct 17 2021 06:34:00

-=> Atreyu wrote to Jack Phlash <=-

 At> In Toronto public transpo is all the rage... so much so that the local
 At> train stations purposely do not build enough public parking. Its mostly
 At> first come first serve...  unless you shell out an extra hundred or so
 At> for a "dedicated" space.

California public transportation is inconsistent. The Bay Area has a cross- 
county subway system called BART. Some of the well-to-do counties didn't 
want to pay the tax to fund the system and felt like it'd be an avenue for 
"The Poor" to come into their proverbial back yards, so it misses a big 
swath of the region.

They finally managed to get BART into the airports, but instead of going 
directly to the terminals, run alongside where the surface bus org can runs 
shuttles to the airport (and get *their* subsidies)

In my neck of the woods, they're trying to get an unused rail line used for 
passenger rail, ostensibly to alleviate the traffic along highway 1 along 
the coast.

In order to obfuscate the issue, they're calling it a RailTrail, although 
there's no possibility of using it as a trail once the train is in place.

Problem is there are no stations, the tracks run behind some prime real 
estate, and the antique wooden trellises will take millions of dollars and 
years to make safe enough for rail trail. But, the developers will make 
millions for a boondoggle that'll fail to serve the constituency.

They never learn. Or we never do.





  When I was working the proverbial rat race it
 At> made sense at the time, until some idiots would park in said dedicated
 At> space.  Then you had to file a complaint with the attendant, move to a
 At> different space etc etc... now you're late for work.

 At> I don't miss the rat race but I kinda miss having an office... kinda.
 At> The company had two large floors of offices, a huge server room and
 At> enough daily IT between myself, another tech and an IT manager. Most of
 At> it is gone now from all the downsizing. Covid really killed that
 At> business (office rentals, meeting space rental etc). The workplace was
 At> actually pretty good, awesome people and the work was pretty mickey
 At> mouse... all with a very good salary.

 At> Atreyu

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