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Posted by italianstallion on Sat Oct 23 19:45:55 2010, in response to Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Oct 23 19:43:48 2010. Shows how much support this rally has. |
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Posted by SchuminWeb on Sat Oct 23 22:45:47 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by italianstallion on Sat Oct 23 19:45:55 2010. Oh, this rally ought to be hilarious. After all, it's Stewart and Colbert. I kinda doubt that WMATA will break a ridership record, since the Obama inauguration record is pretty high, but you never know. |
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Posted by Nilet on Sun Oct 24 00:40:30 2010, in response to Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Oct 23 19:43:48 2010.  Do you know what kind of commuter equipment those trains will be using? Is it MARC? Or will they bring NJT sets down even though the trains start/end in Philly?And no, Glenn Beck didn't get extra Amtrak service— most of the attendees at those rallies were bussed in by the corporate sponsors who created the "Tea Party" movement. |
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Posted by 9 local on Sun Oct 24 01:19:55 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Nilet on Sun Oct 24 00:40:30 2010. If I had to GUESS, I'd say SEPTA push-pull sets. But we'll see. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Oct 24 01:39:36 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by 9 local on Sun Oct 24 01:19:55 2010. Check your email, you chicken-shit yellow-bellied dung beetle. |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Oct 24 04:33:17 2010, in response to Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Oct 23 19:43:48 2010. I can't imagine Glenn Beck's supporters being in favor of a government funded national rail system anyway... |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Oct 24 15:37:50 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Oct 24 04:33:17 2010. Not unless the train is towing a septic car that they can dump their RV's into. :) |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Oct 24 16:10:49 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Nilet on Sun Oct 24 00:40:30 2010. Corporate sponsors? Wowee! Were they foreign buses brought over by ships, or is this like how all money belongs to the gov't, if I buy something with the money from my paycheck, it was the corporation funding it.That's adorable. Is huffington paying for the amtrak tickets of the ny studio audience? |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Oct 24 16:11:34 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Oct 24 04:33:17 2010. Considering how ontime the well run system is.... |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Sun Oct 24 20:19:11 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Oct 24 16:11:34 2010. Much better than the private alternative that...went bankrupt 40 years ago. |
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Posted by Green over Green on Mon Oct 25 09:31:39 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Oct 24 15:37:50 2010. Hey, watch it. I have an RV and I'm not a fan of Glenn Beck. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Oct 25 13:45:03 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Sun Oct 24 20:19:11 2010. If only America were that free as it was back then. Can't even get a commuter line running with Amtrak stonewalling. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Oct 25 14:17:21 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Oct 25 13:45:03 2010. And thank God someone created the raillines Amtrak runs on, and created the equipment, and created the invention of the train. Pelosi would've never done it. |
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Posted by Teddmann on Mon Oct 25 14:23:01 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Oct 24 01:39:36 2010. >> Check your email, you chicken-shit yellow-bellied dung beetle.Your post is off-topic. Please get and read this book...it might help. 
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Posted by Brighton Private on Mon Oct 25 14:27:19 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Oct 24 04:33:17 2010. Maybe not, but there sure were plenty of them on the Metro. |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Mon Oct 25 14:37:46 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Oct 25 13:45:03 2010. Eh? You really believe that the chief obstacle to expanded commuter service is Amtrak? Instead of forcing yourself to consider the implications of urban planning and hidden subsidies and entrenched political interests and consumer preferences you can just blame Amtrak. I gotta try this myself. Hmmm, how are we going to deal with climate change...oh! It's a myth! Problems solved. Hm, how can we solve poverty, hmm. Oh! Taxes and welfare make people poor! That's two down, I'm on a roll here.It would be so satisfying to watch your head explode in a world where all your little simple solutions are implemented, yet somehow fail to solve life's complex problems. |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 25 14:57:06 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Mon Oct 25 14:37:46 2010. ::cries:: post of the godamn year.Your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Oct 25 15:11:09 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Green over Green on Mon Oct 25 09:31:39 2010. Heh. People who DON'T have RV's don't know about the tank. :) |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 18:41:52 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Oct 24 04:33:17 2010. And not many came from New York City. This silly rally will be almost entirely populated by northeastern liberals. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 18:42:26 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Sun Oct 24 20:19:11 2010. Amtrak and fiscal conservatism can co-exist. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 18:43:47 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Mon Oct 25 14:37:46 2010. I gotta try this myself. Hmmm, how are we going to deal with climate change...oh! It's a myth!Who is saying it's a myth? The climate is always changing. You don't even know what your opposed to anymore. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Oct 25 20:30:30 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 18:42:26 2010. Amtrak and fiscal conservatism can co-exist.So you're gonna let us raise taxes to increase Amtrak's operating subsidy and capital expenditures, or you going to leave us a with a broken railway system? |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 20:37:01 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Oct 25 20:30:30 2010. Why are these the only choices? I am for re-assigning highway construction funding for Amtrak and for reallocating existing funding to resemble reality (ditching HSR). |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Oct 25 20:43:07 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 20:37:01 2010. Why are these the only choices?Primarily because re-allocation of money that gets funneled to the FHWA is even less likely than additional money going to pay Amtrak's operating subsidy and capital plan or the HSR programme. There's always going to be some member of Congress begging for money for a roadway project in his district. ditching HSR Again, it's critical to fund the HSR programme in certain corridors to make the investment worth it to shift riders to rail-based transportation in order to free up capacity on highways and at airports. In the case of California, given the choice of having to upgrade every major airport in the state or rebuild CA 99 for increased traffic, I'd much rather give precedence to a form of transportation that doesn't require fossil fuels. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 00:16:23 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Mon Oct 25 14:37:46 2010. You sure didn't post in the thread two days ago where the gov't blamed Amtrak for stopping the service going on 4 years from now.Well thank God for gov't, so it can fix the problems it created. Ruin the feasibility of passenger rail service that built the country, and then take it over after it's been sabotaged by public policy. Then we can be all snotty about how the gov't is proving us with the very late and unrealiable amtrak service because no one else is. I hope Obamacare isn't that bad. And this is going to be hilarious. Gov't policy on transportation is always blamed for the failure of passenger rail in the country, but it might be construed as pro-GOP during an election, so we must change the narrative to say that's not true at all suddenly. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 00:17:54 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 18:43:47 2010. You took the time to read that? I responded as though it had something to do with the subject and wrote on the subject as though it wasn't some drunk arguing with himself over some phoney crazed debate. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 00:22:46 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Oct 25 20:43:07 2010. You don't need to raise taxes for Amtrak. Amtrak's budget versus the trillions they spend is such a non-percentage already that today it's a bigger farce to go after amtrak than it was before Obamanomics."May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Amtrak, the U.S. long-distance passenger rail carrier, would get a subsidy increase of less than 1 percent, to $1.5 billion, under President Barack Obama’s proposed budget. The increase for the Washington-based railroad compares with the $1.84 billion Amtrak sought for fiscal 2010. " Ignoring that Obama wanted to gave them less than requested(watches Jersey Mikes head pop off), that is a small amount when you look at how much a new LRT costs, or how much the HSR is costing, and this is to operate a full national network. I think out of trillions, if Amtrak needed something, it's in a present budget pretty easy. Not like they pass laws that fund anything that has to do with the orignal law at all anymore. |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Oct 26 01:09:15 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Brighton Private on Mon Oct 25 14:27:19 2010. Back in 2000 for the RNC convention I remember when I saw the young Republicans were all trying to use the MFL. It was fucking comical both for their complete cluelessness and for them being way over dressed. Of course today's Tea Party Republican is more likely to be wearing some sort of stained T-shirt and jeans. :-\ |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Oct 26 01:15:39 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 00:16:23 2010. The solution to bad government policy isn't no government policy is GOOD government policy. Every form of transportation has required SOME form of government policy. From William Penn grid street layout of Philadelphia to the land grant railroads of the 19th century, to the good roads movement of the 1920's to the interstate highway system of the 1950's all transportation has been dependent on government policy.I'm pretty satisfied with government transportation policy. It's delivered good value for money, it just needs to change since the marginal benefit from new highway projects has declined from what it was back in the day. |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Tue Oct 26 01:26:02 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Oct 26 01:15:39 2010. It would be nice if the other 4 boroughs had a "William Penn grid street layout". |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Tue Oct 26 01:35:07 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Grand Concourse on Tue Oct 26 01:26:02 2010. I mean for NYC. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Oct 26 01:41:28 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Oct 26 01:15:39 2010. Forgive me for chiding in ... but if the government is so bad, what is the alternative? AIG? Lehman Brothers? It's fine to trash things, it's adult to offer a working alternative. Has anybody found any? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Oct 26 03:08:36 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Oct 25 18:41:52 2010. Yes, this is a brainland rally, not a heartland rally. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Oct 26 03:13:17 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Grand Concourse on Tue Oct 26 01:35:07 2010. They do have grid systems. Brooklyn has two major ones, plus lots of named street laid out in grids, while Queens has their crazy scheme. Bronx extends Manhattan to the extent allowable. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 10:32:57 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Oct 26 01:41:28 2010. "government is so bad, what is the alternative? AIG? Lehman Brothers"They're the same thing |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 10:33:41 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Grand Concourse on Tue Oct 26 01:26:02 2010. Eh, Olgethrope did a nice grid in Georgia's first city back in the day. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 10:35:33 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 26 10:33:41 2010. And it feels like a scretch to compare William Penn And Olgethrope being comissioned by the Crown to do a city, and someone today getting a permit to build a subdivision, to some centrally planned East German system going through thousands of comissions and cronies for decades to give me a one block extension of a streetcar! |
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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Oct 26 15:00:37 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Oct 26 03:08:36 2010. :-D |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Oct 26 15:41:03 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Oct 26 03:08:36 2010. With hints of kidneyland.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Oct 26 15:56:15 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Fred G on Tue Oct 26 15:41:03 2010. Kewl! Paladino's doing a cameo down there to walk off the stage for a whiz on Metro's third rail? |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Oct 26 15:58:59 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Oct 26 15:56:15 2010. Either that or a stint in SF's Castro for some sensitivity training.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Oct 26 15:59:37 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Fred G on Tue Oct 26 15:58:59 2010. Hahaha, for that wide stance.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Oct 26 16:00:03 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Fred G on Tue Oct 26 15:58:59 2010. Paladino on the F Muni ... the photo ops! OH the photo ops! :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Oct 26 16:01:24 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Fred G on Tue Oct 26 15:59:37 2010. Put wheels on his shoes, and he can run as an extra. Ah ... but will his arm reach the wire? :) |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Tue Oct 26 21:03:36 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak Adds Extra Trains for Colbert/Stewart Rally, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Oct 26 03:13:17 2010. Still parts like Marine park that screws up the 2nd grid segment. Queens is totally insane the way it's set up. Bronx, eh, the eastern part could be straiter. |
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