Murrieta/Temecula to get High Speed Rail Station

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

Hmm OK I still say this validates my theory that the LA/OC/SD mega City will connect through the Temecula valley within 20 years.

I would think that for the larger employers anyway this last mile issue is why God invented Van pools.

[UCGal]

The last mile issue can be addressed. It is already being addressed in Sorrento valley. I have a lot of coworkers that take the coaster in to work – despite the fact that the station is 3-4 miles from work. There are shuttle buses that take them out to our campus.

Forward thinking businesses offer these kind of services on their own, already. A friend works at Adobe in Seattle and lives on Bainbridge Island. Adobe offers free shuttle buses from the ferry terminal to their campus… and loaner cars for employees that want to run errands at lunch. It’s a sweet perk and my friend sites it as one of the reasons he will stay with Adobe long term.

When I lived back east near Philadelphia – the suburban campus I worked at was served by a network of shuttle buses that ran from a main bus terminal to the surrounding business parks. Friends swore you could not get to work by bus – I proved them wrong, on a bet, and rode the bus to work daily for a month.

If a community or business chooses to address the ‘last mile’ problem it’s easily solved.

[UCGal]

The last mile issue can be addressed. It is already being addressed in Sorrento valley. I have a lot of coworkers that take the coaster in to work – despite the fact that the station is 3-4 miles from work. There are shuttle buses that take them out to our campus.

Forward thinking businesses offer these kind of services on their own, already. A friend works at Adobe in Seattle and lives on Bainbridge Island. Adobe offers free shuttle buses from the ferry terminal to their campus… and loaner cars for employees that want to run errands at lunch. It’s a sweet perk and my friend sites it as one of the reasons he will stay with Adobe long term.

When I lived back east near Philadelphia – the suburban campus I worked at was served by a network of shuttle buses that ran from a main bus terminal to the surrounding business parks. Friends swore you could not get to work by bus – I proved them wrong, on a bet, and rode the bus to work daily for a month.

If a community or business chooses to address the ‘last mile’ problem it’s easily solved.

[UCGal]

The last mile issue can be addressed. It is already being addressed in Sorrento valley. I have a lot of coworkers that take the coaster in to work – despite the fact that the station is 3-4 miles from work. There are shuttle buses that take them out to our campus.

Forward thinking businesses offer these kind of services on their own, already. A friend works at Adobe in Seattle and lives on Bainbridge Island. Adobe offers free shuttle buses from the ferry terminal to their campus… and loaner cars for employees that want to run errands at lunch. It’s a sweet perk and my friend sites it as one of the reasons he will stay with Adobe long term.

When I lived back east near Philadelphia – the suburban campus I worked at was served by a network of shuttle buses that ran from a main bus terminal to the surrounding business parks. Friends swore you could not get to work by bus – I proved them wrong, on a bet, and rode the bus to work daily for a month.

If a community or business chooses to address the ‘last mile’ problem it’s easily solved.

[UCGal]

The last mile issue can be addressed. It is already being addressed in Sorrento valley. I have a lot of coworkers that take the coaster in to work – despite the fact that the station is 3-4 miles from work. There are shuttle buses that take them out to our campus.

Forward thinking businesses offer these kind of services on their own, already. A friend works at Adobe in Seattle and lives on Bainbridge Island. Adobe offers free shuttle buses from the ferry terminal to their campus… and loaner cars for employees that want to run errands at lunch. It’s a sweet perk and my friend sites it as one of the reasons he will stay with Adobe long term.

When I lived back east near Philadelphia – the suburban campus I worked at was served by a network of shuttle buses that ran from a main bus terminal to the surrounding business parks. Friends swore you could not get to work by bus – I proved them wrong, on a bet, and rode the bus to work daily for a month.

If a community or business chooses to address the ‘last mile’ problem it’s easily solved.

[UCGal]

The last mile issue can be addressed. It is already being addressed in Sorrento valley. I have a lot of coworkers that take the coaster in to work – despite the fact that the station is 3-4 miles from work. There are shuttle buses that take them out to our campus.

Forward thinking businesses offer these kind of services on their own, already. A friend works at Adobe in Seattle and lives on Bainbridge Island. Adobe offers free shuttle buses from the ferry terminal to their campus… and loaner cars for employees that want to run errands at lunch. It’s a sweet perk and my friend sites it as one of the reasons he will stay with Adobe long term.

When I lived back east near Philadelphia – the suburban campus I worked at was served by a network of shuttle buses that ran from a main bus terminal to the surrounding business parks. Friends swore you could not get to work by bus – I proved them wrong, on a bet, and rode the bus to work daily for a month.

If a community or business chooses to address the ‘last mile’ problem it’s easily solved.

[briansd1]

The high speed rail network being envisioned will be a huge drain on public coffers if/when completed.

The ridership will not be there to make the network self-sustaining.

Forget the suburbs, we need to encourage high density near the urban core and provide public transport there. If people want public transport, they can move to the city. That’s how it works everywhere else around the world.

Traffic gridlock will force people to move closer to the core.

But we need to build affordable condo towers of 3 or 4 bedroom units that have low HOAs.

[briansd1]

The high speed rail network being envisioned will be a huge drain on public coffers if/when completed.

The ridership will not be there to make the network self-sustaining.

Forget the suburbs, we need to encourage high density near the urban core and provide public transport there. If people want public transport, they can move to the city. That’s how it works everywhere else around the world.

Traffic gridlock will force people to move closer to the core.

But we need to build affordable condo towers of 3 or 4 bedroom units that have low HOAs.

[briansd1]

The high speed rail network being envisioned will be a huge drain on public coffers if/when completed.

The ridership will not be there to make the network self-sustaining.

Forget the suburbs, we need to encourage high density near the urban core and provide public transport there. If people want public transport, they can move to the city. That’s how it works everywhere else around the world.

Traffic gridlock will force people to move closer to the core.

But we need to build affordable condo towers of 3 or 4 bedroom units that have low HOAs.

[briansd1]

The high speed rail network being envisioned will be a huge drain on public coffers if/when completed.

The ridership will not be there to make the network self-sustaining.

Forget the suburbs, we need to encourage high density near the urban core and provide public transport there. If people want public transport, they can move to the city. That’s how it works everywhere else around the world.

Traffic gridlock will force people to move closer to the core.

But we need to build affordable condo towers of 3 or 4 bedroom units that have low HOAs.

[briansd1]

The high speed rail network being envisioned will be a huge drain on public coffers if/when completed.

The ridership will not be there to make the network self-sustaining.

Forget the suburbs, we need to encourage high density near the urban core and provide public transport there. If people want public transport, they can move to the city. That’s how it works everywhere else around the world.

Traffic gridlock will force people to move closer to the core.

But we need to build affordable condo towers of 3 or 4 bedroom units that have low HOAs.

[XBoxBoy]

Seems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.

1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.

2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.

3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)

To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Seems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.

1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.

2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.

3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)

To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Seems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.

1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.

2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.

3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)

To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Seems to me, a better and more universal solution would be for the money to be spent developing self driving cars. The benefits of such a system would be huge.

1) The number of cars (and thus people) that could travel on the same road would probably double or triple, since self driven cars wouldn’t cut each other off, or drive slow while talking on the cell phone.

2) Time spent in the car could become productive. Rather than “driving” you could safely do a whole variety of things.

3) The number of people who die annually on our roads is something like 50k, and the number injured is significantly higher. Self driven cars should have no collisions. The savings from this would be huge. (Not only lives saved, but think of the money not spent on auto insurance, and ambulance chasers)

To me it’s a shame that when the govt talks about stimulus, they don’t have the vision or leadership to propose something like self driven cars. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we can design a system of self driven cars.

XBoxBoy

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