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Posted by ElectricTraction on Tue Aug 25 20:19:29 2015, in response to Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Aug 25 19:57:51 2015. I'm not sure the tech busses are less destructure of the air than 45 San Francisco cars. Maybe if the busses are new and well maintained, but older busses might be beat by 45 Prii or other AT-PZEVs.That being said, there is no physical room on the highway, nowhere to park them where the tech workers are living, and the CO2 emissions from the bus are surely quite a bit lower. And the tech companies are probably going to be innovators with electric busses or some other more environmentally friendly fuel. The experience of the tech workers cannot be extrapolated out to the larger population as a whole. They are extremely well paid, can afford insanely high rents and real estate prices in SF, and are often workaholics. Does Caltrain really serve reverse commuters? Are any of the offices that close to the train stations? Google, Apple, Microsoft's California Office, and Intel are all far away from the tracks, hence the bus systems. eBay is near light rail, but not heavy rail from SF, EA, Facebook (near a freight spur, not passenger), and Yahoo! (light rail only) are in the same situation. Google is by far the largest user of the tech shuttle system. |
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