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Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …
Sadly, boring tunnels is a teensy bit more expensive than paving roads... :(
Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …
also, interesting they had to design it not to cast a shadow on that house """ But the decision to build an architectural icon didn't end problems - it started new ones. The most bizarre was with the U.S. Navy. In 1998, it refused to let Caltrans onto Yerba Buena Island to finish its engineering work. The Navy's issue was whether the Bridge would overshadow the one-time home of Admiral Chester Nimitz, a hero of World…
The alternative would have been to run the new east span south of the old one, instead of north. Apparently San Francisco preferred that option, but Oakland wanted the north alignment. I'm not sure why, all I've seen mentioned so far is that they chose that particular alignment to ensure drivers would get a good view of San Francisco while driving west...
Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …
Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …
It takes a decade and many billions of dollars to dig a single tunnel in most cities in this country. So best of luck with your plan..
Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …
It takes a decade and many billions of dollars to dig a single tunnel in most cities in this country. So best of luck with your plan..
Have people lost the will to think big because others before them have failed, or do people assume that they will fail because they don't think big.
I guess the asset-light strategy works sometimes (a lot of cities are regretting mass transit investments post-pandemic), but it sure doesn't seem to lead to better quality of life.
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It takes a decade and many billions of dollars to dig a single tunnel in most cities in this country. So best of luck with your plan..
I understand that the price of a tunnel is somewhat comparable to the bridge.
Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …
I'm all for that, if you're able to pay for it! Sadly, boring tunnels is a teensy bit more expensive than paving roads... :(
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Yeah Airbnb has become so outrageously expensive and is so much less convenient than a hotel that it's almost never worth it anymore, it's crazy.
It's sad because AirBnB has also similarly shrunk the "suite" class of room that we as a 5 person family need. So we're forced into using AirBnB/VRBO because hotels only offer 2+2 (and most rental sites don't let you even look for 5 person rooms). Ugh.
FTA, $500 per day to rent an historic mansion overlooking the bay (i.e. before the bridge obstruction) I have a family wedding to attend back east this autumn and we're looking at around that (before "service fees" and taxes) to sleep 5 out in the sticks of New Hampshire -- short-term housing has truly gotten out of hand, basically everywhere.
Yeah Airbnb has become so outrageously expensive and is so much less convenient than a hotel that it's almost never worth it anymore, it's crazy.