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Caldecott fourth bore plan challenged by lawsuit
The San Jose Mercury News ^
| December 27, 2008
| Denis Cuff
Posted on 12/28/2008 1:04:49 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"We're not trying to stop the project, but make it a better project," Self canceling phrase...
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:19:44 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's about cars.
We had this problem in Indianapolis. They ran I70 through residential areas without compensation to the people within the blastzone of the highway.
When they did the Super 70 project it was just more of the same, but less traffic (I noticed on a trip through the area since nobody I know lives next to the highway anymore).
People love their highways ~ they despise the people they damage with them.
I've often thought that if the folks living beside an Interstate quality road were given hunting licenses that qualified them to just pick off every ten thousandth driver with a high powered rifle from their rooftops that would change minds quick.
Make it all legal of course ~ no vigilante stuff ~ just a simple license like you might get to take deer or other wild game.
Fundamentally the public attitude as expressed by public officials responsible for constructing and maintaining these roads in residential areas is pretty primitive and we need to take drastic measures to bring them up to civilized standards ~ like PAY PEOPLE to move.
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:20:35 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; NormsRevenge
and a bicycling advocacy organization aka Communist Thugs on two wheels...
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:22:43 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: tubebender
I agree, keep bicyclists off of my roads. Or Tax them by putting a GPS embedded in their skulls so that we can tax them $1.00 for each mile plus a license tax of 100% of the purchase price of the bike, plus mandatory insurance that will provide life long care for being run over when they gt in front of a car.
Also they will need a flag man walking in front of them to warn others of their coming, so the can get the tomatoes ready:-)
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:30:26 PM PST
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"... it's been just about moving cars, and doesn't consider other types of mobility."Pogo Sticks?
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:37:27 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This is an early example of where all the money will go in Obama’s wet dream of spending on infrastructure.
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:47:06 PM PST
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: stubernx98
Every bridge in NW Cal had to upgraded to provide a kiddie lane. It cost Billions and caused traffic delays and the funds came from the road tax...
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:51:57 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
a bicycling advocacy organization Let them bicycle all they want wherever and whenever they want.
In reality bikes have nothing to do with leftists attempting (once again) to run (and ruin) everyone else's life.
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:52:50 PM PST
by
relictele
To: muawiyah
Seek professional help. And that isn’t a joke.
To: relictele
Two things. Obviously you’ve never lived next to an Interstate highway. Secondly, you are totally devoid of humor that has to do with your use of your automobile.
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:59:22 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Caldecott tunnel has needed expansion for at least thirty years, perhaps longer. Currently they use remote control dividers to switch the lane orientation to accommodate morning versus afternoon commuter traffic.
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posted on
12/28/2008 1:59:51 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: tubebender
A "kiddie lane" or a "pedestrian path"?
Think how less expensive those bridges would have been (in the long run) if they'd been built originally as pedestrian accessible fixtures.
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posted on
12/28/2008 2:00:40 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
These bridges are in the wilds of the outback. They might see five KIDDIES a year...
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posted on
12/28/2008 2:18:10 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: muawiyah
Two things.
1) No, I made sure to obtain an education in the classroom and real-world sense ensuring that I would be able to choose housing away from such thoroughfares.
2) Your ‘joke’ is the item devoid of humor. Your reference was to voluntary shooting of total strangers. What a knee-slapper.
To: Red_Devil 232
BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
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posted on
12/28/2008 2:33:16 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
To: relictele
Proving you are too unducated to comprehend what I said. The house was already there. The Indiana state highway department, in colusion with corrupt politicians, routed it though several residential neighborhoods they wanted to convert to industrial use for their friends.
The people in the path really didn't have much choice about it.
Plus, virtually all interstate highways that run through residential districts are operated improperly.
There is no public interest in changing the situation.
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posted on
12/28/2008 2:34:13 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
I have actually lived next to an interstate highway, as well as train tracks, and I got used to it. Admittedly, I haven’t lived near them when there was construction going on.
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posted on
12/28/2008 2:36:28 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
To: muawiyah
How, in your view, would you operate an interstate “properly?”
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posted on
12/28/2008 2:38:41 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
To: tubebender
The objective of the protestors is clear. They wish to minimize nearby freeway traffic elsewhere ~ one way is to make sure conditions at that tunnel are miserable.
I saw they had a fire there once. I couldn't help but observe that this "wilderness area" had a brushfire in the early 1990s that swept down and destroyed over 3,000 homes nearby.
Are you from Los Angeles perhaps?
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posted on
12/28/2008 2:39:57 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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