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Started by bobb , Apr 07 2005 08:17 AM

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#1 bobb

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 08:17 AM

Has Light Rail workers all gone home for Lunch? The Outlets look bad. Either finish or buy more busses.

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#2 Ahnold

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 01:18 PM

Not much they can do with saturated ground. They probably have to wait for things to dry out a bit.

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#3 (Gaelic925)

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 01:42 PM

I thought they were going to do a test run of the light rail train. Does anyone know when they might do this?

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#4 bishmasterb

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 04:34 PM

What's light rail?

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#5 jagayman

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 07:01 PM

Isn't it ironic that it's called light rail?

It implies that the rails are lighter, but they are actually heavier (noticed those heavy concrete ties?).

It might also imply the track is designed to handle only light loads. However, track used for the transportation of people has to meet a higher quality standard than track designed to haul only freight. As a result, light rail track can carry a fully-laden freight consist.

Or it could mean the train itsself is lighter.

Then, shouldn't it be called "light train"?

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 07:31 PM

The term light rail refers to the lightening of our wallets as taxpayers.

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#7 granto

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Posted 08 April 2005 - 07:41 AM

They are behind on station construction and need to wait for those to get done before testing. Got to hand it to the government, they waited till the last minute to get the land for stations and apparently Aerojet did not like the price that was being offered. Kind of like building a house, then going back to get the permits to build it!

QUOTE(bobb @ Apr 7 2005, 08:17 AM)

Has Light Rail workers all gone home for Lunch? The Outlets look bad. Either finish or buy more busses.

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#8 tessieca

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Posted 08 April 2005 - 10:08 AM

They haven't changed their opening estimate of October as far as I've heard.

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#9 bobb

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 08:10 AM

New Grand Opening Date: October 15. I hope this will help keep some of those gas guzzling $50,000 cars in Folsom off the road. Our moto should be exchange your leater for vinyl.

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#10 folsom500

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 10:33 AM

QUOTE(bobb @ Sep 20 2005, 09:10 AM)

New Grand Opening Date: October 15. I hope this will help keep some of those gas guzzling $50,000 cars in Folsom off the road. Our moto should be exchange your leater for vinyl.

At $5 million per mile or more just to lay the tracks and get it started - the light rail is surely a waste of our tax dollars...

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#11 K Rat

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 10:39 AM

QUOTE(folsom500 @ Sep 20 2005, 11:33 AM)

At $5 million per mile or more just to lay the tracks and get it started - the light rail is surely a waste of our tax dollars...

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...but it's politically correct...the tree-huggers love this kind of stuff, even though nobody's gonna use it and it's costing a fortune...oh, details, details...

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#12 Dave Burrell

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 10:41 AM

QUOTE(bobb @ Sep 20 2005, 08:10 AM)

New Grand Opening Date: October 15. I hope this will help keep some of those gas guzzling $50,000 cars in Folsom off the road. Our moto should be exchange your leater for vinyl.

those folks driving $50,000 cars wouldn't dare to be seen using public transportation - they're too good for that.

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#13 benning

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 02:23 PM

If you have 8.5 minutes to spare, this animated movie is kind of cute...
It explores the psychology behind SUV owners.

http://video.mpegnat...5131232911.html

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