Monthly Archives: June 2008

will we see the first truly integrated transportation company?

Posted on June 29, 2008 by patrick

Expanding on my comment over here: This is the reason why contrary to years past – the airlines may be very open to the idea of running the HSR system as a substitute for running the competing planes. At the … Continue reading →

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practical reasons why BART-to-SFO is a disaster

Posted on June 21, 2008 by patrick

Quite simply BART-to-SFO has major fatal, permanent flaws: route time is not competitive. During the early morning rush taking a Baby Bullet train from points south of Millbrae to 4th and King with a transfer to Muni is faster. I … Continue reading →

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Paul Graham’s “Messages from cities”

Posted on June 4, 2008 by patrick

Interesting post from Paul Graham about the message and measure of success that different cities send. This is my comment: To the inverse question is also very interesting.- Specifically, what if a city *does not* send a message? To me … Continue reading →

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