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Sunday, May 08, 2011

Disingenious

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To put it bluntly, the CAHSRA board has a history of being intentionally stupid. As a case in point: in dismissing the Altamont route int...
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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Train Robbery or Pragmatism?

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Several of our local representatives, Anna Eshoo, Joe Semitian, and Rich Gordon have recently released a joint statement on High Speed Rail ...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Easter Pie

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We had company for Easter, so I was feeling festive and seasonal--so I made a carrot pie. Basically: just follow a pumpkin pie recipe, but...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Simple Clipper Suggestion: Stencil Reminders onto the Platform

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Last night I went down to Kepler's with the kids. Despite the fact that Wini knew she needed to tag off (the Clipper Card is finally w...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

Sulky Tween, Train-Obsessed Toddler

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Me: Do you think it's going to snow tomorrow? Wini: No way, it's not gonna snow. Me: It's totally gonna snow! It's gonna...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Kid Clipper Working

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Wini's card has been successfully tested on BART, CalTrain, and SamTrans. Frequenters of the Bay Area Transit Blogosphere may be amuse...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Clipper Card: Still Confused

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As related in the last post, my daughter now has a youth Clipper card, and I thought I had autoload all set up, after some finagling. So ...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Finally Got my Kid a Clipper Card

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It's a little more complicated than you'd think: Go to SamTrans HQ, during business hours, with kid. This means finding a day tha...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Fresno HSR Station Plans

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Very preliminary plans for the Fresno HSR station and nearby developments have been published at FresnoDowntownPlans.com . Not knowing...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Roads, Transit, and the Constitution

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Some republican wanker from San Diego has gotten some attention in the transportation blogosphere for commenting that highways are mandated ...
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Saturday, February 05, 2011

How to Make Clipper not Suck for CalTrain

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For details of the suckage, here are clipper-related posts over at the Holierthanyou (bike/transit) blog--or see what everyone's saying...
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Library Automat at Millbrae BART

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I saw this machine at the Millbrae BART machine last night: I figured it was for downloading eBooks to readers, but in fact it's a m...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Some Musings on CalTrain, HSR, etc

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A few years ago, there was an optimistic buzz that: Pretty soon, we would have an HSR system from SF to LA. HSR would use CalTrain's r...
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Summit to Save Caltrain, Sat Jan 29th

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This will be taking place this Saturday, at SamTrans/CalTrain HQ in San Carlos (it's the modern-looking glass building you've probab...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Got a Clipper Card

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I have a CalTrian GO pass, so I don't really need one, but SamTrans is starting to take them, so it might come in handy. Nathan and I ...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

Clipper Card for Kids: They're not Making this Easy

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You can't get a Youth Clipper Card online (because anyone could pretend they're a kid, I suppose--just like you can't get Youth ...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Biking in the Rain

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It's not very far from my house to the station, so I went for it. I brought an extra pair of socks, and put them on at work. Being gen...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Woohoo! Weekend Baby Bullets Begin Jan 1st!

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Here's the schedule , and here's a story and list of things to do at each stop posted by Green Caltrain. This is a case of CalTra...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Pedestrian Tunnel at Santa Clara

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I meant to get on the 9:18 SB at Redwood City but mistook the 9:12 for it, and the 9:12 skips past Mountain View. (This situation always ma...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

The World's First Game of Scroggle

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Ended in a tie. Scroggle is like Scrabble played with Boggle blocks. You can flip over blocks already on the board to put a different l...
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