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Comments on the SMART Draft Strategic Plan
Every five years, the SMART Board must adopt a “Strategic Plan.” The one adopted on Wednesday is the next one in line. The fundamental problem with this st... … more »
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SMART could waste $1 billion over next 20 years
I am not kidding. SMART could really waste $1 billion over the next 20 years if we let it. And, I am talking in real $2024 dollars. SMART only survives because o... … more »
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Guy
Prop 5 = Property Tax Crisis 2.0
A PROP 5 "NO" VOTE is the 2nd most important vote this November The first property tax crisis During the 1970s, Seniors were challenged to keep their homes d... … more »
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Guy
SMART [Train] looks really bad compared to CalTrain
Summary Benchmarking SMART vs CalTrain is an interesting exercise because the two systems are comparable. Their respective track distance between their main co... … more »
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SMART Marketing -- Spending Your Money to Convince You of the Wonders of SMART Rail
Since its inception, the Sonoma-Marin Area Rapid Transit (SMART) agency has a history of making bold claims about its value proposition while hiding its costs from... … more »
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The Dumbest Smart People
There’s no lack of fact-denying, anti-science people in the world, bent on holding onto really dumb ideas and resisting all attempts to be educated. But at the... … more »
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An Alto Tunnel Primer
The following letter has been submitted to the Board of the Transportation Authority of Marin, regarding the misguided discussions about "re-opening" the Alto Tunn... … more »
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U.S. State Department
High anxiety and a conversation with ChatGPT-4
In the past 10 days, two teenagers in Iowa beat their Spanish teacher to death because she gave them a bad grade and a man shot a 6-year-old child and her parents ... … more »
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The Alto Tunnel Pipe Dream
Talk of reconstructing the Alto Tunnel between Mill Valley and Corte Madera for use as a north/sound multi-use route surfaced nearly 30 years ago, which prompted m... … more »
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Marin Post-Press Democat
The NCRA Boondoggle Part II: Other Bidders Never Had a Chance
Part II of this original investigative journalism by Bernard Meyers was first published in April of 2020, but is being republished again now because the story is... … more »