Comments on: Congress Reluctant to Shine Light on Transportation Earmarks http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/05/18/congress-reluctant-to-shine-light-on-transportation-earmarks/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: murphstahoe http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/05/18/congress-reluctant-to-shine-light-on-transportation-earmarks/comment-page-1/#comment-5586 murphstahoe Tue, 19 May 2009 05:26:07 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2202#comment-5586 You would definitely see several folks here against the Central Subway. As bad as I think that is, I am far more distressed about the BART extension to San Jose. You would definitely see several folks here against the Central Subway. As bad as I think that is, I am far more distressed about the BART extension to San Jose.

]]> By: theo http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/05/18/congress-reluctant-to-shine-light-on-transportation-earmarks/comment-page-1/#comment-5585 theo Tue, 19 May 2009 04:45:07 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2202#comment-5585 Richard, I liked your ideas about the Transbay terminal, but you're acting like a conservative troll here. Streetsblog's evaluation of the Central Subway was evenhanded. Nearly everyone agrees the current proposal is not cost effective, but with an extension to North Beach and the North Waterfront, it will become essential to the city's transit backbone. Caltrain to Chinatown is an important corridor. In the long run, I-66 isn't going to be any better. It's a highway from nowhere to nowhere. Bachmann is the most irrelevant member of an irrelevant party, and you can really only point and laugh. Democratic House members have requested the Northstar line, and it's very likely to happen. Richard, I liked your ideas about the Transbay terminal, but you’re acting like a conservative troll here.

Streetsblog’s evaluation of the Central Subway was evenhanded. Nearly everyone agrees the current proposal is not cost effective, but with an extension to North Beach and the North Waterfront, it will become essential to the city’s transit backbone. Caltrain to Chinatown is an important corridor.

In the long run, I-66 isn’t going to be any better. It’s a highway from nowhere to nowhere.

Bachmann is the most irrelevant member of an irrelevant party, and you can really only point and laugh. Democratic House members have requested the Northstar line, and it’s very likely to happen.

]]> By: Richard Mlynarik http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/05/18/congress-reluctant-to-shine-light-on-transportation-earmarks/comment-page-1/#comment-5582 Richard Mlynarik Tue, 19 May 2009 00:18:26 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=2202#comment-5582 Meanwhile, sf.streetsblog.org <a href="http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/03/02/muni-monday-the-future-of-the-central-subway/" rel="nofollow">actively shills</a> for the far worse than useless San Francisco Central Subway to Nowhere pork project, which ONLY exists because Nancy "Porkmistress" Pelosi explicitly added language to the TEA reauthorization bill that explicitly excluded this dog, along with the nearly equally rancid BART to San Jose contractor welfare project, from normal, legal cost-effectiveness evaluation by FTA. You can't have it both ways: Pork for evil Kentucky Republican and freeway bad! Pork in San Francisco for CIA Overlord Pelosi and Parsons Brinkerhoff good! Pick both, or neither. Meanwhile, sf.streetsblog.org actively shills for the far worse than useless San Francisco Central Subway to Nowhere pork project, which ONLY exists because Nancy “Porkmistress” Pelosi explicitly added language to the TEA reauthorization bill that explicitly excluded this dog, along with the nearly equally rancid BART to San Jose contractor welfare project, from normal, legal cost-effectiveness evaluation by FTA.

You can’t have it both ways: Pork for evil Kentucky Republican and freeway bad! Pork in San Francisco for CIA Overlord Pelosi and Parsons Brinkerhoff good! Pick both, or neither.

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