... The people wanting the big Hitachi have a problem - the ORD for the Green Line is 3000pdph at 4 minute intervals. It is a spec written specifically to...
... EB: If the ORD says '3000 people per direction per hour at 4 minute headways' - that the spec that sets the size of the train that will be bid on. Short...
"Honor old Monorail's history but don't slow construction of new system, says Nickels. Don't add costs and delay to construction of new system, mayor says." ...
1) The plan shows 24 pictures of monorails. 4 of those show the Alweg in an historical context and three are of the Alweg in operation. In the brochures and...
Edwin Stone
edwincstone@...
Jul 1, 2003 3:18 pm
6525
... minute ... will be bid ... good. ... a unique ... PS: I truly wish you would quit wasting time by repeating the same arguments that have been refuted - if...
... stops, ... current ... In response to an earlier post about "which Hitachi do you prefer, the CM-110 or CM-120?", I have been thinking thoughts like this ...
Yes, Ed, let's be clear. If I am running the Green Line at 4-minute intervals, and I add the Blue Line at 4-minute intervals, staggering the two, then I have a...
Would you make up your mind on the conspiracies, please, Ed? First there was a "conspiracy" to choose Bombardier. Then you told people Bombardier was going to...
Yes, you are right as far as you go, FUD. Yes, you can add the Blue line to the Green line, and at 4-minute headways each, you reach the design capacity of the...
rdpence03
rpence@...
Jul 1, 2003 7:33 pm
6530
Yes, that is a technically correct argument, but it is also a misleading one. This is a competitive bid process in a political environment. Any bidder...
greenlaker98103
blee98@...
Jul 1, 2003 8:19 pm
6531
... "Conspiracies"? Lets stop suggesting that. That's your spin, not mine. Public misperceptions, misconceptions, wishful thinking, unfortunate ...
Boy, I sure hope the monorail has the problem of too many people wanting to use it. ... From: rdpence03 <rpence@...> To:...
Edwin Stone
edwincstone@...
Jul 1, 2003 9:59 pm
6533
PS: First of all we don't know how much difference there will be in the bidding - second of all the limit in the expenditure is the $1.5B bonding and the 1.4%...
"Too many" is only relevant in relation to design capacity. Build in too low a design capacity and you get to "too many" very early in the system's useful...
greenlaker98103
blee98@...
Jul 1, 2003 10:21 pm
6535
... Nonsense! Take Safeco Field (Baseball): there are 45,000 for a sell-out (and that happens frequently). And say that one third takes the monorail--a number...
Dick Falkenbury
falkenbury@...
Jul 1, 2003 11:47 pm
6536
way to go, EB. That is a clear, direct, and concise set of arguments. (not that I necessarily agree with you, but this is a style of debate that I respect.) ...
... Damn, Roger, if I didn't know any better, I would think that you were becoming 'one of us'. Come in, the water is fine and there is still time--afterall,...
Dick Falkenbury
falkenbury@...
Jul 1, 2003 11:55 pm
6538
I base that statement off of The Plan's ridership estimates... e.g. 69K/day in 2020. Surge capacity is a whole 'nuther ball of worms. The answer I think I've...
... EB: The problem is - the ETC Green Line monorail FEIS and the ORD and the SPMP, all of which you signed off on, provide little justification for anything...
Attached is a copy of the Landmarks Preservation Board (LPB) "Controls and Incentives Agreement" for the Seattle Monorail. It was signed on May 13 by Virginia...
The Mayor was one of only three electeds that sign on in support of I-53 and he gave strong help with the last vote - we are definitely not tight but in...
... The Mayor knew where the votes were when he played you and other desperate monorail supporters for all they were worth to get elected. During the LINK EIS...
I think I originally heard about the problems on KUOW radio but the following link gives you a sense of the problem: http://www.komotv.com/stories/25770.htm ...
As I said after my simple example, Roger, "And that's without altering frequency on the individual lines, or capacity of the trains, or anything else. That's...
Dick, I think you know my reservations about monorail. My concern now, however, is simply, if we are going to have a monorail transit system, let's do it ...
rdpence03
rpence@...
Jul 2, 2003 6:38 am
6546
I'd sure hate to be the SMP official that had to stand up in front of the Seattle citizenry and say, "Yes, the Green Line is $350 Million over budget, but we...
greenlaker98103
blee98@...
Jul 2, 2003 2:22 pm
6547
That article just describes the precautions ST is taking while Tacomans get used to driving and walking around the new system – precautions I am sure are...
greenlaker98103
blee98@...
Jul 2, 2003 2:33 pm
6548
... desperate ... saw ... monorail as ... there's no ... I would give that title to Aubry Davis myself. Nickels other flaw is that he will turn a deaf ear to...
My understanding is that Tacoma LINK is ahead of schedule and under budget. If that is true, then it is pretty amazing given articles like this: ...
greenlaker98103
blee98@...
Jul 2, 2003 3:15 pm
6550
I think we need to think --BIG--. And I say that even from the most negative assessment. Let's say for a moment that this is it. The Green Line gets built,...
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