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FYI: Existing train (Amtrak) service in the Central Valley is being expanded currently and they are looking to expand it further. The expansion, from 6 trips to 7, went into effect…

The officials who have to make the budget tradeoffs that weren’t on the ballot in 2008 are finally pushing back. The question now is when they’ll have the guts to pull the plug. We…

But if we raise the price of helium to prevent depletion of resources, helium will be expensive too. Although artificially raising the price of diamonds seems to have been an effec…

Sorry to have made assumptions. My understanding is that there was no pre-existing infrastructure suitable to cars. The dirt and cobblestone roads that existed were inadequate, to …

The world would be better served if you studied how to tweak existing cities to make them more pedestrian-friendly and people focused. They are too car focused. You should start by…

Perhaps you should read some history. IIRC, at some point, car companies bought up public transit infrastructure and shut it down because less public transit was good for sales. #c…

No. As is often the case, they think that because they do one thing dramatically better than anyone else, they must be fundamentally wiser and smarter in all things. "A wise man is…