Contact for BART

Mike Hale eyeronic.design at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 10:23:23 UTC 2019


I mean, did anyone seriously ever confuse BART with Bart Simpson?  Or
ROW with row?  Come on now.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 1:53 AM Scott Christopher <sc at ottie.org> wrote:
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> No :)
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> BART is Bay Area Rapid Transit, a public transportation system with its own bureaucracy and publicly elected board.
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> Caltrans is a separate State bureaucracy, though it has a big office in the city of Oakland near BART Headquarters.
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> And then there is Caltrain which is the commuter rail that runs down the peninsula. That organization has its own bureaucracy and board, too.
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> Lesson to be learned: don't use obscure acronyms unknown outside a small geographical region :)
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> Owen DeLong wrote:
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> You’ll have more luck finding California Dept. of Transportation if you call them “CalTrans” which is what they call themselves.
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> Owen
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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 17:27 , Ben Cannon <ben at 6by7.net> wrote:
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> HAH. Apologies for copying the list.  But I think we all needed a good Friday laugh.
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> Making it relevant again, also looking for a good contact within CALDOT (California Dept of Transportation) and the joint bridge authority for the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
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> Have a good weekend all :)
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> -Ben Cannon
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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:25 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:18 PM Ben Cannon <ben at 6by7.net> wrote:
> > I’m speaking of the san francisco based Bay Area Rapid Transit department about Rights Of Way for fiber…
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> Now you've said enough that if the person you're looking for is here he'll have some idea you mean him.
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> > What are you talking about?
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> Inappropriate abbreviation. I mean sure, why not a NANOG Friday Fight Club, but why would you want to get in a ROW (noisy argument) with BART Simpson?
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> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
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