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trains good
Washington Metro is great when it works
An autopsy, performed on the day of his death, determined that his history of diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease led to sudden cardiac death.
The immediate cause of death was an occlusive coronary thrombus.[24][1]
On the special reports program, Russert's friend Dr. Michael Newman stated that the autopsy showed coronary artery disease in the left anterior descending artery, and a fresh blood clot was visible on one of these plaques.
DAMMIT
Are there any 'new' subway lines that go most everywhere in the city, in the way that the NYC, Tokyo and London systems do? I can't think of any. Montreal is maybe the closest.
Trains? How can you talk about trains when Russert is being deified on all three cable news networks?
Silly libruls ...
What time is the Tim Russert Tribute thread going up? I'll come back for that.
Are there any 'new' subway lines that go most everywhere in the city, in the way that the NYC, Tokyo and London systems do? I can't think of any. Montreal is maybe the closest.
Gromit
I think Los Angeles Metro is trying to do that with a combination of subway, light rail, and busways. We've still got a long way to go, however.
Trains? How can you talk about trains when Russert is being deified on all three cable news networks?
Nah gah watchit.
How's Mom?
By the way, Gromit, how're you feeling? On the mend, I hope.
This would be a good time for a winfall profits tax on oil company to be used to fund transit...
WaPo home page has 7 links to Russert. Article on Afghanistan prison break (Bastille redux?) is on A-11.
What time is the Tim Russert Tribute thread going up? I'll come back for that.
SteveLG
D00d, like most people I managed to restrain myself yesterday. Let's not push our luck, mmmmkay?
WaPo home page has 7 links to Russert. Article on Afghanistan prison break (Bastille redux?) is on A-11.
Gromit
I was amazed that the three NYT headlines in my mailbox did not include a Great Journalist Mourned story.
By the way, Gromit, how're you feeling? On the mend, I hope.
Diane
Definitely on the mend, thank you. Just got back from a walk and today is the last day of the liquid diet. Tomorrow, oatmeal!
Four major Metro disruptions in 10 days underscore the strains facing the region's largest transit agency as the system ages. Its infrastructure is old and needs to be replaced.
Thanks, Dumbya. Don't you think it would be better to rebuild our infrastructure at home rather than to build 50 permanent bases in Iraq, complete with golf courses and olympic swimming pools?
SteveLG, are you in the DC area?
Marcellina: SteveLG, are you in the DC area?
On a universal scale, aren't we all?
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Bloody sheets.
Thanks, Dumbya. Don't you think
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Not to be SEXIST, but female columnists think its ok to go way out in left field. Colorful! Gail Collins is more palatable than MoDo, in that she doesn't feel it necessary to grenade anyone on her way to making a point.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/1...collins.html?
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Srsly, I worked all afternoon and evening and declined to turn on the TV when I got home.
This morning's is the first coverage I've seen and I can't take much more.
I wish the good folks of Iowa all the best, but I hope that people all around the country will take a good look at how quickly its news media lost ALL interest in the fate of ordinary people and gave itself over to wailing, garment-rending, gnashing of teeth and general ululation over the death of one of its Beloved Villagers.
I just heard the empty head on the Today Show apologetically introduce a woefully brief report on the Iowa floods by saying: "Well, of course there IS other news in the world this morning..."
Who knew?
Wish me luck not saying anything really gross about Russert to someone at work. Bye.
Hate the Red Line. Hate it.
Sonny Perdue at become a fan of commuter rail and "feels a sense of urgency."
We ask "Has hell frozen over?"
no system in the world has what New York has in terms in network complexity, express tracks and interconnected lines. Its a luxury, but by no means a necessity. The Paris Metro is exactly like Washington - 2 track lines, only there are many, many more lines so there are more alternate routes if there is a blockage on one. London is the same. Washington needs more lines, but that takes the big bucks no one in America except New York is willing to go to the mat for.
Big Oil and Big Auto have sold us a bill of goods as they've sold us down the toilet. It would take massive continuous investment over decades, and more importantly a wisdom Americans have never shown in order to turn things around. The US' future is in deep doo-doo.
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San Francisco's Metro trains run the same way, all lines funnel down one two-track Market Street corridor, meaning congestion or breakdown of one train effectively shuts down the system.
Old trains:
When I rode the Broad Street Line daily in 1975-1979, the rolling stock was from the 20s. So those cars were 50 years old. You'd pull into the station and the flywheel under the floor would be rumbling like crazy, then engage to help power the cars out of the dead stop.
About that time, SEPTA bought new Kawasaki cars from Japan, the Budd Company lost the bid, yet making the cars in Phila would've provided local jobs and you know, not nearly so much shipping headache. I imagine they came thru the Panama Canal to the port of Philadelphia. Guess those new cars are soon 30 years old. But so are the space shuttles, right?
Metro and San Francisco's BART were built around the same time. I remember some of the PR while they were building it--using COMPUTERS to control the trains, we'll get 100% reliability. So they thought they wouldn't need more than 2 tracks. At least Metro didn't make the blunder that BART did of using non-standard track gauge, which means that all rolling stock has to be custom engineered. Both systems originally used rolling stock made by Rohr in California. Needless to say, the early reliability claims were horseshit, and in the case of BART it took 20 years before it was what you might consider reliable.
"Mussolini kept the Piercing Pagoda's running on time"-David Broder
Oh the Good Ol' Days when all was asked of the Politicians was to Keep the Trains Running On Time.
The Metro system in DC by definition cannot be "old" as I remember when it opened.
The DC Metro is a great system. Yes, it's aging, but still clean and a great way to get around town. Now we're trying to get the system extended to Dulles Airport. One time I heard the Carlisle Group name bandied around as a possible underwriter for the extension if the feds didn't come through...
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