Comments for On-ramp meters might be all we've got at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://tracypress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:14:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/12142/2244/#comment-23128 Jon Mendelson just doesn't get it....He says they are out of ideas...no they just skipped over the first idea twenty five years ago, leftists in California have resisted adding lanes for that long. what wrong with playing "catch-up"? if we need them...we need them. also the Rail idea is fantastic, even if it is Pacheco Pass, thats because when the grade is cut for the train, it will also setup the road bed for the future Freeway through there also saving Millions ( or billions) since it is California. When Pombo was working on the pacheco pass highway they estimated ten thousand cars a day ( thats alot of relief for the Altamont.) so Mendelson is again wrong about the train not helping the north San Joaquin valley. Jon, Stick to reporting about something in your age group, like Brittany Spears. - Steve Reshakis Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:08:58 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/12142/2244/#comment-23102 I would love for BART to come through Tracy! However, the unfortunate fact is that with the current technology, a conventional BART train doesn't have the capacity to harness the electricity required to go through the Altamont pass. For the train to reach the top of the 1000 ft elevation, not to mention carrying hundreds of passengers per train, is impossible for BART at this point. My brother works for BART and has told me all this. The only way for BART to get to Tracy is to tunnel its way through the Altamont, which would run into the billions of dollars. Plus building a tunnel roughly 10 miles long isn't a cake walk. A conventional train, like the ACE train would be the only feasible way to go. Add more trains and hopefully that will ease some of the traffic cogestion! - Brendan Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:44:26 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/12142/2244/#comment-23062 They should have started putting BART in instead of the truck by-pass lanes on 580... Probably would have gotten done around the same time and would have taken a lot of vehicles off the road. Especially if it stopped near The Lab (8000 people right there). There is no easy way to get to Livermore or even Pleasanton. The back roads are congested. It now takes me 45-60 minutes just to get from west side of Tracy to Livermore (around 18 miles). That's on a good day without accidents. Let the lawmakers make the commute for around 90 days and see how they like it. Maybe they wouldn't hem haw around so much and wait until it was to late to give the needed monies. - LD Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:28:44 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/12142/2244/#comment-23002 Exactly. It always occurs that when there is gridlock, we all complain, the government spends years hemming and hawing over funding issues, environmental impact reports and all the other stuff that has to be done. Meanwhile, traffic continues to worsen, and then when something gets done, it's often too little too late. I still believe that after all this gets done (whenever it gets done), 205 and the interchange with 580 is always going to be a mess. I've gotten to the point where I continually ask my co-workers that live out here if they've discovered any lesser-used back roads that will save some time here and there. Because the fact remains that we'll all be retired by the time BART gets to Livermore, ACE runs more trains and the freeways get to the point where they're free-running. - Jerry Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:45:02 +0100