Road Discs

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

Planet of the Mils

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

I'm still suffering from hearing loss after riding BART from downtown to the airport a few months ago. What's up with that? Couldn't they put a little WD-40 on the rails?

-- Jay Beattie.

On 10/10/2017 5:23 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

Planet of the Mils

It was fine. There was no excrement on the escalators, and I did take
MUNI which shares escalators with BART in the downtown area.

The homeless were in the long underground walkway from the train to the
street.

I walked over to Chinatown for lunch after meeting with my accountant.

$5.95 for lunch, fish with bitter melon over rice. Very good, but I
almost didn't go in because there were too many white people in the
restaurant (3), which always worries me in Chinatown where too many
white people mean that it's a tourist trap.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-boiling-shrimp-san-francisco-2. Usually I
got to Kam Lok https://www.yelp.com/biz/kam-lok-restaurant-san-francisco.

If you have to go to downtown SF it's best to park free out near the
West Portal MUNI station and pay the $2.75 fare which is good for three
to four hours (for now). They are slowly replacing the fare machines
with new ones that will print out a transfer and they will eliminate the
paper transfers and the new ones will be good for only the official 90
minutes.

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:27:07 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

I'm still suffering from hearing loss after riding BART from downtown to the airport a few months ago. What's up with that? Couldn't they put a little WD-40 on the rails?

BART uses solid axles so the inside or outside wheels on every turn skids around the turn. This was to avoid the cost of so many differentials.

The consequences of this is that the tracks wear at an almost unbelievable rate due to the fully loaded and minimum clearance between trains. This magnifies the problems.

When you have new tracks the sound isn't too objectionable but when the tracks have worn a bit inside of the cars the sound levels can exceed medical standards.

Funny things you learn when you work for BART for three years before getting bored and going on to more Engineering jobs. But had I stayed at BART I would be in the richy-rich set at retirement.

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 6:44:02 PM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/10/2017 5:23 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

Planet of the Mils

It was fine. There was no excrement on the escalators, and I did take
MUNI which shares escalators with BART in the downtown area.

The homeless were in the long underground walkway from the train to the
street.

I walked over to Chinatown for lunch after meeting with my accountant.

$5.95 for lunch, fish with bitter melon over rice. Very good, but I
almost didn't go in because there were too many white people in the
restaurant (3), which always worries me in Chinatown where too many
white people mean that it's a tourist trap.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-boiling-shrimp-san-francisco-2. Usually I
got to Kam Lok https://www.yelp.com/biz/kam-lok-restaurant-san-francisco.

If you have to go to downtown SF it's best to park free out near the
West Portal MUNI station and pay the $2.75 fare which is good for three
to four hours (for now). They are slowly replacing the fare machines
with new ones that will print out a transfer and they will eliminate the
paper transfers and the new ones will be good for only the official 90
minutes.

You do not see the excrement because they steam the escalators down each morning before they open the gates. That does not remove the bacteria or viruses.

On 10/11/2017 10:04 AM, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:27:07 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

I'm still suffering from hearing loss after riding BART from downtown to the airport a few months ago. What's up with that? Couldn't they put a little WD-40 on the rails?

BART uses solid axles so the inside or outside wheels on every turn skids around the turn. This was to avoid the cost of so many differentials.

Solid axles are almost universal on all trains. I don't know of an
exception, although I expect someone will soon post one.

--
- Frank Krygowski

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:52:16 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 10/11/2017 10:04 AM, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:27:07 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

I'm still suffering from hearing loss after riding BART from downtown to the airport a few months ago. What's up with that? Couldn't they put a little WD-40 on the rails?

BART uses solid axles so the inside or outside wheels on every turn skids around the turn. This was to avoid the cost of so many differentials.

Solid axles are almost universal on all trains. I don't know of an
exception, although I expect someone will soon post one.

And the wheels have "tires" too :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 10:52:20 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 10/11/2017 10:04 AM, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:27:07 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:02:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:22:56 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/6/2017 6:26 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:11:21 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

Fixies were hugely popular among the Hipster set but have waned over
the past few years -- along with the Hipster set. I'm too old to
recognize the next trend. I'll have to button-hole some young person
and find out.

Here in Minnesota trends arrive behind the times and leave behind the
times. It's the flyover syndrome. So we still have hipsters. Tight
pants, goatees, man buns, fedoras. On fixies. yearrgghhh.

We've moved on to "Millenials."

When I ran for City Council, one of the eight candidates was a
"Millenial." A 20 year old college student living at home. Every time he
was asked a question in a forum, he began the answer with "well,
speaking as millenial...," or "the millenial view of this is...." The
problem for him was that almost all the people that show up for these
"forums" are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. At one forum, after he
spoke, it was my turn, and I pulled out my AARP card and began "well
speaking as an AARP member..." which got a good laugh from the audience
at the senior housing development.

I have to go to San Francisco now, with the millenials buying $15 bowls
of ramen and $5 boba drinks.

Hope you have a good time despite the homeless on every open area, the sidewalks covered in spit and the BART escalators filled with human excrement.

I'm still suffering from hearing loss after riding BART from downtown to the airport a few months ago. What's up with that? Couldn't they put a little WD-40 on the rails?

BART uses solid axles so the inside or outside wheels on every turn skids around the turn. This was to avoid the cost of so many differentials.

Solid axles are almost universal on all trains. I don't know of an
exception, although I expect someone will soon post one.

BART is a rapid transit system and they should not have been using 19th century technology. This causes excessive maintenance expense on the system and because they can't keep up with the maintenance they have derailed trains and stopped the system on several occasions. When they are in the trans-bay tunnels this is dangerous.

On 10/12/2017 10:24 AM, wrote:
On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 10:52:20 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:


Solid axles are almost universal on all trains. I don't know of an
exception, although I expect someone will soon post one.

BART is a rapid transit system and they should not have been using 19th century technology.

Do you know what technology other cities' transit trains use?

--
- Frank Krygowski