I'm getting pretty excited about the station. I like how much more open and light it will be on First and Fremont. It's so dark and dank under the current terminal.
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I am sure they'll clean the glass for the first 10 years the Transit Center is open.
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I have a little confession: my biggest architecture fantasy is to see this beautiful, massive Transbay terminal made even more grand and have it be one end of a trans-american high-speed rail line linking up to the another massive, gorgeous HSR terminal in Chicago - how amazing would that be?? Two of the greatest cities in the world with a direct, 2,700 mile high speed rail link that would then also act as main terminals for other rail lines to branch out of...one can only dream..sigh..;)
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See "Prediction #5" from The Ladies Home Journal 1900 for year 2000:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=168431 I seems people have be dreaming about this for many years. How about Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York all linked by HSR and ultra grand terminals? |
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It's 1857 miles so, if the train could average 200 MPH it would take a bit over 9 hours. If it was slower, you can do the math. But getting there as fast as possible is not the #1 priority for everybody. Certainly not for me. |
I agree. I love sentinel's dream.
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By the way, since when is flying today "cheap and efficient" (or even all that fast city center to city center)? |
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YOU'RE FUCKING FLYING THOUSANDS OF FEET IN THE AIR! You shouldn't ever complain about human flight. Ever. It's a miracle that we got the fuck up there in the first place. Don't take it for granted. |
^Pizzaguy: aviation is amazing but when delays cost airlines (http://www.airlines.org/economics/cost+of+delays/ ) an estimated $10B in FY08, excluding the value of passenger time, it is reasonable to ask if the aviation system is being used efficiently. Approximately 30% of arrivals in the New York area airports (Newark, LaGuardia, JFK) were delayed last year. At crowded airports such as Newark, O'Hare, and SFO, high speed rail provides a very good alternative to short-haul flights. This is especially true in congested regions where expansion of capacity-constrained airports is not possible.
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At speeds of 225 mph, a ~ 9 hr trip compares pretty well to a SF-Chicago flight (half an hour to 45 minutes to get to SFO, showing up at least an hour early for security and check-in, 5 hours in the air, 45 minutes to an hour to get to the Loop). Based on European trains, it would cost about 2/3 as much, and would be more comfortable with more space, a dedicated dining car, etc. This is of course assuming that Amtrak provides the same level of service as the European rail networks. |
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Chemotherapy is a miracle but it still makes you feel like crap and puke and waste away, and if you can avoid it by surgically removing the whole tumor, any doctor will tell you to avoid it. Nuclear energy is a miracle but that doesn't mean people are going to be stoked to live nextdoor to a nuclear power plant or a missile silo. Ask the (former) residents of Pripayat how they feel about it. Antibiotics are a miracle but they still give you diarrhea and stop working if you use them too much, and help create antibiotic-resistant superbugs when too many antibiotics get out into the environment. And they don't work on all pathogens. Genetic engineering is a miracle but there is still risk in building superplants that they could outcompete native species and disrupt ecosystems. Same for flight; it's a miracle, but sending millions of passengers thousands of feet in the air each year to take routine trips releases tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It takes a LOT of energy to lift a 100-ton aircraft 25,000 feet into the sky and keep it there for several hours. And airports are rarely close to downtown. |
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Here's a look ahead to next steps on the temporary terminal. This just landed in my inbox:
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Looks like they're using pre-fab for the temporary terminal structures:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/...744cb56f_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/...5be32a0b_b.jpg |
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