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Dr. Ogbru received his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy in 1995. He completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Arizona/University Medical Center in 1996. He was a Professor of Pharmacy Practice and a Regional Clerkship Coordinator for the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy from 1996-99.
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PRESCRIBED FOR: Minocycline immediate-release tablets and capsules are used for infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumonia, Chlamydia trachomatis, Borrelia recurrentis, Yersinia pestis, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Shigella species, Acinetobacter species, respiratory tract infections caused by Haemophilus influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae, and respiratory tract and urinary tract infections caused by Klebsiella species. Minocycline extended-release tablets are used to treat inflammatory lesions of non-nodular moderate-to-severe acne vulgaris. Minocycline is used for treating Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus and other infections caused by the typhus group of bacteria, Q fever, rickettsialpox and tick fevers caused by rickettsiae.
Adults (immediate-release tablets and capsules): The recommended dose for minocycline is: 200 mg initially, followed by 100 mg every 12 hours. If more frequent doses are preferred, then two or four 50 mg capsules initially, followed by 500 mg 4 times a day.
Children 8 years of age and older (immediate-release tablets and capsules): The recommended dose of minocycline is: 4 mg/kg initially, followed by 2 mg/kg every 12 hours, not to exceed the usual adult dose.
Adults and children 12 years of age and older (extended-release tablets): The recommended dose for minocycline is: Approximately 1 mg/kg by mouth once daily for up to 12 weeks for the treatment of inflammatory lesions of non-nodular acne vulgaris.
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My grandson, Patrick, who's now in high school, was "Grammy's helper" for years. We made these frozen pops for company and everyone, including the adults, loved them. They're delicious and good for you! —June Dickenson, Philippi, West Virginia
- 2-1/4 cups (18 ounces) raspberry yogurt
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 medium ripe bananas, cut into chunks
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- Place yogurt, lemon juice and bananas in a blender; cover and process until smooth, stopping to stir if necessary.
- Pour mixture into molds or paper cups. Top molds with holders. If using cups, top with foil and insert sticks through foil. Freeze until firm. Yield: 1 dozen.
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In December 2003 I moved to Reno, Nevada. Quite a change for me from rural Alaska. Later the day that I took this image I tried another at night. I didn't feel comfortable standing in the middle of the road like some of the tourists. I was thinking taking a picture of this sign with your friends below it could be placed in VT under the Warnings or Dangers tip section - Don't Get Run Over while taking pictures.
The mirrored-glass of the Club Cal-Neva is very attractive and at sunset it can become much more colorful. Here you can see the American flag and pink-stained clouds reflecting on the walkway between the Cal-Neva parking garages and casinos.
The mirrored-glass of the ceiling at the Peppermill Casino's Oceano is the latest pretty place to see in Reno. The grand opening weekend was May 22nd in 2004.
- Pros:I moved here because it is a "little city" - lots to do, but few enough people the traffic wasn't bad.
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"taking a gander" through your pages was fun; when i eventually visit my couisn in Suburbia, i should visit Reno city privately and see it's attractions ;-)))
Great pictures of Reno. Love the buffets at the hotels. Will try the Peppermills. Love the Nuggett in Sparks. Be in town on the 21st. of May, visiting my brother, his family and our mother. They all moved to Reno, but me. lol
This looks like a vibrant and interesting place. Nice page :)
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Measuring the Transit supply In Vancouver (*)
March 12, 2015
When it comes to service delivery, the TransLink narrative goes like this:
Delivered transit service hours have fallen behind the population growth since 2010 reaching levels last in 2008. That is leading to more crowding, more pass-ups and a worsening of the overall transit experience [1][18].
The graph presented to support this thesis is usually a truncated version of the below one:
A problem with this narrative using the total service hours delivered by the TransLink subsidiaries and contractors is that it magnifies the 2010 peak, by including service provided for the Olympic Games. A second issue is that it includes the technical services which could vary greatly without affecting the transit supply. Below is an example of such differences [2]:
|Revenue hour service
|Total hour service
|difference in %
Revenue service or service supply means service dedicated to move transit passengers (passenger can use the provided service).
Total service is the revenue service + technical service (deadhead run, layover…).
That is matching the APTA definitions. Translink's reports tend to easily interchange the both terms.
The relatively important difference between the total service and the effective revenue service had already been noticed as an optimization avenue by the 2012 TransLink commissioner's review [17]. The more fundamental issue is that the service/hour provided is not representative of the Transit supply:
- The replacement of a 40 foot bus by a 60 foot bus wouldn't increase the service hours per capita, but it could address overcrowding.
- Faster bus routes infer less hours of service but are improving the service offer.
- The replacement of a bus route by a rail one, offering much faster and higher capacity vehicles, can both address crowding while improving the offer, while resulting in a decrease in total service hours.
Seat.Kilometres Supply
The seat.km metric; which needs to be understood as (seat+standee).km in the transit world; is a much better way to evaluate the transit supply, and for this reason is widely used in the passenger transportation industry.
As an example: 1 hour of coach service on the express route 555 using the Hwy 1 HOV lane can provide ~3600 seat.km when one hour of C23 Shuttle bus in Vancouver's Yaletown, provides only ~320 seat.km. Differences in average speed and vehicle capacity drastically affect the offered service which is reflected by the seat.km metric:
The effect of the introduction of the Canada line service in late 2009 is clear. Though service hours may have stayed stable since 2011, the seat.km supply has slightly increased thanks to a greater use of articulated buses. The advent of routes 96B and 555, having higher speed than average, also provides more seat.km at constant service hours. Is this enough to keep pace with the population growth?
The point is moot. If a downtrend can be observed since 2011, we are nowhere near the 2008 level. The introduction of rapid transit lines tends to exhibit a positive long term trend.
Canadian and International Comparisons
To provide a larger perspective, the Vancouver transit supply is compared to other Canadian metropolitan areas, using numbers as provided by the Transportation Association of Canada [4]. The Vancouver numbers have been normalized to correlate with those provided by the association [5] . Vancouver tends to exhibit favorable trends when compared to its Canadian peers:
Vancouver pales when compared to Megalopolises such as Paris, London or Hong Kong [6], but its Transit supply is much greater than in Portland and comparable to the ones of European metropolises of population size closer to Metro Vancouver, such as Lille or Lyon [7]. Nevertheless, this comes with one caveat: both Lille and Lyon are fed by an important suburban train network which has not been accounted for in the following figure:
The above international comparison is assuming 4 standees per m2 to estimate the vehicle capacity [9]:
|Hong Kong
|146 [10]
|200 [10]
|London [11]
|Paris [11]
|166 [13]
The Occupancy rate
Is the Transit supply good enough or not?
The occupancy rate [14] can be a good proxy to assess the relevance of the supply: the higher the occupancy rate is, the more likely crowding issues will arise. On the other hand, a low occupancy rate could suggest an excess of capacity.
Crowding experienced locally with a low occupancy rate could suggest that the transit supply deployment is not optimal, but some other issues could arise: A directional demand unbalance makes crowding difficult to address without deploying excess capacity on the underused direction.
Possibly a transit world specific: even the busiest systems don't achieve an occupancy rate greater than 30%. In that light, the TransLink system appears to be a heavily used one.
It is worthwhile to note that TransLink estimates the average transit trip length at ~8km [15] when TfL estimates the average bus trip length at 3.5km and the Underground trip length at 8km [16]. Similarly the average bus or tram trip length is 3.3km and the subway trip length 5km in Paris. The reliability of trip length data could be an issue but a consequence of longer trips in Vancouver is that TransLink needs to provide more seat.km per trip than London or Paris.
(*) This article has been first published in the December 2014 newsletter from Transport Action BC.
[1] Mayors' council on regional transportation Regional Transportation Investments: a Vision for Metro Vancouver – June 12,2014
[2] Difference between the GTFS data (revenue hr) and the Translink 2013 Annual report (Total service hr). see more in this post
[3] Supply is computed on the first Friday following Labour Day (usually one of the busiest Transit days of the year) of each year from GTFS schedule and fleet deployment observations. The vehicles' capacity used are the maximum as displayed on the concerned vehicles. see more in this post
[4] Transportation Association of Canada. Urban Transportation Indicators, Fourth Survey. Ottawa :2010
[5] Numbers otherwise differ, possibly due to different assumptions, such as on the vehicles' capacity. The urban areas, used by the association [4], don't match either the area covered by the transport agencies, so numbers are subject to caution.
[6] Numbers for Paris come from the Observatoire de la mobilité en Ile-de-France, London numbers from TfL [16] and Hong-Kong numbers from the 2013 MTR Annual report.
[7] Number for Portland, including population, comes from the APTA, and includes the scheduled services provided by Trimet, C-Tran, SMART and Portland city.
[8] Numbers from the Certu ("Annuaire statistique Transports Collectifs Urbains", 2014) with bus capacity normalized at 83.
[9] Agencies could have different standards (e.g. 6 persons per sqm in Hong Kong). The vehicle capacity is per bus or consist (train) unless otherwise specified. When different vehicle types are used, a vehicle revenue.km weighted average is used.
[10] The capacity is per car. Hong Kong Tram capacity is 125, and Hong Kong Airport train capacity is 120 per car.
[11] Vehicle Capacity number from Report on mobility an transport #1 – Institut D'aménagement et d'urbanisme- November 2014".
[12] Weighted average of a DLR train capacity (280) and a Tramlink train (200).
[13] The capacity is per vehicle, the Portland streetcar capacity is 200.
[14] Also called Load factor.
[15] Translink: 2014 Business Plan, Operating and Capital – Budget. New Westminster 2014.
[16] Transport for London. Travel in London: report 7. London 2014.
[17] Shirocca consulting Translink Efficiency review. 2012,
[18] A narrative largely echoed by Lower Mainland translink advocates as illustrated here.
Who is paying the Metro Vancouver CIT?
January 29, 2015
CIT stands for the Congestion Improvement tax submitted to a plebiscite
According to the last Mayors plan iteration, it is now like below:
Tourism share was originally quoted at 10% by the Mayors council, but this number has been proved erroneous. Credibility of other numbers have not been verified.
the CIT is expected to raise $250M/year
Is the CIT tax 0.34c a day or 258$/year per household?
In the Transit plebiscite campaign, people quote 2 different numbers:
- 0.34c a day (that is 124$ a year) if one counts only the direct CIT paid by metro Vancouver households
- $258 if one counts the CIT tax burden per household (direct and indirect)
The last number suggests people will support indirectly the businesses tax burden. Many on the "yes" side seem to argue that is wrong. For example, Brad Cavanagh at canspice.org, wants to believe that the gas price witnessed at the region border (Langley and Abbotsford) is proof of it:
- The total tax rate is 32.17c in Langley (including a 17c Translink tax).
- The total tax rate is 21.17c in Abbotsford (no Translink tax but a higher provincial tax).
The 11c [1] tax difference is fully passed to the consumer ( The Brad Cavanagh's error is to consider the Translink tax as the only difference between Langley and Abbotsford)
Do businesses pay taxes?
As economists know, businesses don't pay taxes, people do. Businesses are an abstraction, people, be either the consumer, the shareholder, or the worker, are the ones paying the businesses' taxes.
If that was not true, we would have transferred all of our tax burden on the businesses abstraction! In the meantime, studies tend to demonstrate more often than not, the workers support the businesses' taxes burden (in the form of lower wages).
It is possible that the investments allowed by the CIT will allow productivity gains or a greater economic activity, making the real cost per household lower than assessed by the most pessimistic views. In the meantime a $258 CIT cost per household is no more wrong than 0.34c per household.
PS: We plan to write a post "debunking" the various claims done in the plebiscite campaign. As a primer, so far we can see, the CTF has provided mainly valid facts. I don't discuss their significance and they could need to be replaced in a proper context (what Brad Cavanagh did in a previous post), but usually trying to dispute them is a losing proposition.
Metro Vancouver: A look at the Mayors' plan Capital investment
January 26, 2015
In a previous post, we have examined the general financing of the plan, and noticed that half of the Congestion improvement tax could go toward operating the system. In this post we focuse deeper on the Capital plan
Capital cost and Translink contribution to the plan
When looking at the plan, it is important to make a difference between the capital cost of a project with the effective contribution paid by Translink:
If the Millenium line extension (Broadway subway) represents 30% of the capital investment over the first 10 yeras, it is expected to represents only 14% of the Translink financial contribution to the capital plan [1]. 77% of The broadway subway is expected to be financed by senior and municipal contributions.
Congestion Improvement tax allocation
The above represents only the capital cost, so not all the new CIT tax revenues will go toward it, but only the portion not used to fund the Translink expanded service operations. The allocation of the CIT tax to finance the plan will look like it:
the broadway subway end up to be only 10% of the total Translink plan extension cost to the tax payer. At the difference of other Transit investment, it doesn't cost taxpayer money to operate, and could be able to generate revenue [1]. More tax $ will fund the roads network (and that doesn't include the Pattullo bridge) than the broadway subway.
Capital cash flow and project timing
A bit of "reverse accounting" suggests the following [4]:
The CIT generating more revenues in the first 10 years than considered in the original Mayors' plan, the debt in 2024 could be around ~4Billion instead of $6Billion as published in June 2014 [2].
As we have seen before, the transit operating costs are expected to increase at a much higher rate than the revenue sources (taxes + farebox revenues), revenues allocated to service the debt will be depleting over the years. ~2023, Translink will be unable to service its debt, it will be missing ~$50 Million to be able to service the debt interest only.
In fact that was considered in the original plan, expecting ~$390 Million of new revenue by 2026: the current CIT will be actually $50 Million short of it.
At this time, it is unclear how the $50 Million gap will be closed [5][6], but it is fair to say that the plan or at least part of it- that is certainly the Fraser Hwy LRT (Surrey to Langley)- is not financed. Unless the financial forecast is significantly erring on the conservative side:
The Fraser Hwy LRT would only go ahead if a new source of financing is agreed by 2022.
By this time, the technology choice could need to be reviewed, so one should not worry too much on this line [3]
Removing the Fraser Hwy LRT from the plan could not be enough to keep the Translink financial sheet on sound basis by 2024: scale back of some bus operations could be required. Though that a more cautious ramp up of bus services could be preferred, that is a normal and reasonnable risk. Otherwise, significant saving could be found in the Expo line upgrade program as we have suggested before.
As for the previous post on the Mayor's plan financial, one will find my "sandbox" worksheet in Google doc
[1] Ideally one would like to consider the full life cycle cost of a project: the Operating cost of the Broadway subway is expected to be more than recovered by fare revenues, and it will allow saving on bus operations too. It is the only Transit project of the plan able to do so. Other transit projects are expected to have a fare recovery ratio of ~17%, involving reccuring costs for taxpayer. Concentrating on the sole cpaital cost is more often than not, misleading
[2] In 2014, the Translink assumption (Translink 2014 baseplan and outlook), was 6.8% interest rate for long term debt, and 5% for the short term debt. Translink has lately emitted bond at 4.5%: we use this last number accross the board but our number could be too optimistic
[3] It seems a bit silly to commit on a technology for a project not expecting to hit the ground in the next 8 years.
[4] Surrey LRT line 1 and line 2 are considered to have the same price per km. the ful cost of the LRT is $2.5Billions. The 10 years plan finance $1.9 Billions of it, ~$600 Million need to be provided in years 2025 and 2026. cash flow model come from the Surrey raid transit phase 2.
[5] The Mayors' plan implictly suggests a mobility pricing tool to generate additional revenues.
[6] We didn't have accounted an apparently "exceptional" "partnership" funding toward operation ($50M in 2023 and $35M in 2024) which could slightly delay the time when Translink could not generate enough revenue to service its debt.
Transit funding: The Bateman's plan and Charles Marohn
January 19, 2015
Jordan Bateman, from The canadian tax payer federation has released an alternative funding plan to fund the Mayor's plan, let's have a look at it:
The CTF notes that the aggregated local revenues (all municipalities and the regional district) growth at an average rate of 5.7% annually. It is well above the ~2.5% combined inflation and population growth rate in Metro Vancouver, and also significantly above the GDP growth rate (~3%). So, the CTF suggests that future local spending could be certainly restrained, to earnmark 0.5% of them toward Translink.
Below is the projected local revenues according different hypothesis.
The CTF report [5] assumes an aggregate regional revenues growth of 4.7% which seems reasonable and below the 5.7% historical trend. Given this assumption, earnmarking 0.5% of these revenues growth to Translink could generate $2Billion on the next 10 years. That is enough to finance the mayors' plan [7].
What is kind of baffling, is that the mayors, especially the tax addicted ones, have not only implicitly endorsed the out of control taxation growth, but becomes apoplectic at the mere suggestion to put rein on it. The narrative is worded by Bill Tieleman like it:
- "To suggest that you can make savings out of growth when you need more schools, when you need more roads, when you need more sewer lines, when you need more garbage trucks — that doesn't make any sense"
It is time to introduce Charles Marohn:
"No More Road"
"no more sewer line, and no more garbage truck…keep the school thought!"
A rarity in the field, Charles Marohn believes in fiscally responsible urban planning. The main theory developed in his blog is that municipalities are generally engaged in a Ponzi scheme:
- Cities invest in new infrastructure disregarding of the return on investment, which generally tend to be bad: Capital cost can be paid by Development charge, but the generated property taxes are not enough to cover the maintenance cost of it.
- Cities then invest in more new infrastructure, to increase their tax base. The new constituents' taxes pay to maintain the older infrastructure in the city, but then again there is no revenue to maintain the newly built infrastructure…
Thought things here could not be as bad as in US, we still have a financially unsustainable development model as illustrates the graph above.
- A full accounting of all short and long-term financial obligations local governments have assumed for maintaining infrastructure.
- A stop to infrastructure projects that expand a community's long-term maintenance obligations.
- The adoption of strategies to improve the public's return on investment and improve the use of existing infrastructure.
How much room we have to make better use of our existing infrastructures?
Most city's "liabilities" can be correlated to its street network length:
- basic road maintenance, including snow plowing and cleaning
- lampposts and other urban furnitures
- police presence, number of fire stations,…
- sewer and water mains underneath
- garbage truck running on it
- …
The list obviously includes transit. The shorter the road network is, the more efficiently a city can be ran. The meters of road per capita is a good proxy to estimate how efficiently a city can be ran or not. Below some comparisons
As suggests the graph above: We have already more than enough roads! Growth without no new roads, and all the service liabilities they implies, is not only a very reasonnable proposition, but should even be a requirement.
How make that happens?
As witnessed by the cold reception of the CTF plan, many municipalities show no intention to take a more fiscally responsible route for future development. However, using the municipal revenue sources to finance Transit creates an impetuous to control spending ("there is so much water a faucet can deliver").
Notice that financing transit by municipal revenue sources is also of nature to encourage municipalities to adopt development pattern enabling efficient transit, to effectively maximize revenue sources room for other municipal services [6].
For those reasons, the CTF plan has significant merits.
How good is the CTF plan?
Some have criticized the form of the message, Many other have critized the messenger [4]. some are eventually trying to spin misinformation, but we still have to see an argumented rebuttal of the plan content. It is that good!
However, it is not what we are asked to plebiscite or not. What we are asked to vote for is a tax, which contours are still not specified. This to finance a plan which so far has not been audited, and has still to allocate $700M of tax revenue [7]. Without Bill of law insight to clarify all that, it effectively sounds like we are asked a blank check. Strangely enough the proponents of the plan don't seem much concerned about that… That is concerning.
What come somewhat as a surprise: The CTF plan doesn't question the mayors' plan, and accept all of it, so they are not framing the debate as a "yes or no to Transit" as "yes" advocate try to do. Do they will be succesfull ? time will tell.
[1] CTF unveils alternative to Metro Vancouver transit sales tax, Jen St. Denis, Business in Vancouver, Jan 15th 2014.
[2] Cities, TransLink should scrimp to avoid new transit tax: No campaigner, Jeff Nagel , Surrey North Delta Leader, Jan 15th 2014.
[3] Number for Hong Kong from "Hong Kong: The facts", for Vancouver, from 2014 Capital and operating budget, from "Transportation Inventory" for surrey, from Bureau of street service for LA, Greater London authority for London and from wikipedia for Paris
[4] Jordan Bateman could have many defaults, but it is not an election to put Mr Bateman in an office. In a referendum, at the difference of an office election, the message trumps the messenger whoever he can be. We will have opportunity to explain more about that point in another post
[5] No Translink Tax: A better plan http://www.notranslinktax.ca, January 15th 2015.
[6] In that regard the current translink levy on property is a good thing, but because it is not directly correlated to the cost to serve a city, it is not good enough to encourage policies optimizing Transit efficiency: A more direct contribution from the city coffers tied to the Transit subsidies in it, could be an improvment.
[7] The mayor plan is originally based on $2B revenues of a "new tax" over 10 years, while the "Congestion Improvement tax" will bring ~$2.7B in the Translink coffers. See our December 22nd post for more detail. The hereby discussed CTF plan conclude basically the same.
Je suis Charlie
January 9, 2015
In reaction to the January 7th terrorist attack on CharlieHebdo in Paris, Transit electronic signs displayed their support
Other less urban mode was also using their screen to pay tribute to the victims:
The Hong Kong LRT
January 8, 2015
The topic of this post is the Hong Kong New Territories LRT, not to be confused with the double decker Hong Kong tram
The french approach: Some remarks
We have examined the french LRT approach and its history in a 2012 post: Some call it the art of the insertion to design Complete Streets [1][2].
It is also important to note the Certu (a French agency) limit for optimal surface operation conditions (signal preemption possible, perfect interval maintained) [4]:
- A minimum frequency interval of 3mn. (in practice very few french LRT operate as les than 4mn interval)
- A maximum capacity of 6,000 persons per hour per direction (pphpd)
Indeed most french trams offer a capacity lower than 6,000ppphd and frequency interval greater than 3mn.
The parisian tram T3, probably the french busiest Tram, while having an excess of ~250,000 boardings/day, is not carrying much more than 4,000 pphpd [3] (that is almost the today transit capacity on the Vancouver Broadway corridor). Another important metric is the average trip length, it is 3.5km on the Parisian trams. For comparison the average transit trip length is 8km in Vancouver. The shorter the trip length is, the less important is the travel speed.
The Hong Kong LRT
The Hong Kong LRT illustrates it is certainly possible to go beyond the french limits, but it also illustrates the issues that entails.
The MTR suggests than in theory their LRT can carry 33,000pphpd, to recognize in practice that is not achievable due to street crossings. It is also worth to note than the MTR uses a very optimistic standard of 6person per sq meter: a crowding level Hong Kongers accept less and less. That said, it is probable that the Hong Kong LRT carries an excess of 10,000 pphpd on some corridors:
A first myth the Hong Kong LRT helps to dispell, is the supposed relationship between a transit technology and a building form. A myth unfortunately still alive in too many urbanism circles.
It also allows us to verify that a LRT can't achieve any significant speed, with high frequency
- The LRT is operated by line of sight: a frequency close to 1mn is possible, and is essentially limited by station dwelling time.
- We have measured the average speed on the route 761P, which run in its own ROW, at less than 15km/h (this off-peak period)
Due to the high frequency, LRT vehicles bunching are frequent and signal preemption not possible. Narrow crowded platform make also for long dwelling. For reference, the 99B average speed is around 20km/h
But the main issue is one of crowd management:
LRT and bike in Hong Kong
Where the street ROW allows, bike track exists along the LRT:
and cycling is a well used mode to access the LRT stations:
However, while pedestrians get priority over cyclists as they should, the interaction between the both mode can be a bit clumsy, in fairly high traffic area:
Was the LRT the right choice?
As we have seen before, the quality of the urban environment is of little concerns to the Hong Kon authorities: The already anachronic high floor design of the LRT, at time of its opening in 1988, reflects this lack of concern. Poor LRT platform design and potential overuse of overpass is certainly a HongKong trademark too. Nevertheless, they have a "geometry" issue to address, which is the consequence of potentially too high pphpd for a nice integration in the urban fabric.
Since the opening of the West Line rail in 2003, the LRT is not a backbone transportation mode anymore, but a feeder to the mass transit line accomodating longer travel. That makes the LRT a right choice in regard of the short trip pattern to accomodate
That said, Sydney is building a LRT supposed to accomodate 9,000pphpd on its downtown segment, but
- this segment (George street) would be fully pedestrianized
- A single LRT line allows to operate long but less frequent trains, at least resolving some potential operational issue and trafic interaction
[1] Complete Streets: From Policy to implementation G. Thomson and T Larwin and T. Parkinson, TRB subcommitte on International Light rail develovpment – Rail-volution, Mineapolis, Sept 22, 2014.
[2] got it thru rail for the valley blog and Stephen Rees. We address here a question in a MB's comment on the Stephen rees blog regarding the frequency of the French LRT
[3] Dossier du débat public: extension du tramway (T3) a Paris, – janvier 2006, Paris
[4] Tramway et Bus à Haut Niveau de Service (BHNS) en France : domaines de pertinence en zone urbaine from Transport/Environnement/Circulation (TEC) n° 203, September 209.


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Occasional holiday document dumps have always been a mainstay in Washington. But the agents of Hope and Change have turned the ritual into a weekly punch line. If it's Friday, it's dump day. The plan worked. As of Tuesday, no mainstream news outlet had reported on the contents of the Black Friday document trove.
None showed interest in the nearly 60 visits from Robert B. Creamer, a convicted felon and tax cheat, left-wing Huffington Post agitator, husband of Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky and vocal champion of the Occupy Wall Street movement. According to the newly released records I reviewed, Creamer was at the White House five times in August 2011 meeting with various officials, including Jon Carson, Cecilia Munoz and Stephanie Cutter.
Nor has there been interest outside conservative blogs in the five White House visits by former Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, a key Fast and Furious scandal bureaucrat, in July and August 2011, or in the five visits from former Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison, including on Aug. 18, 2011, just before the tax-subsidized firm declared bankruptcy.
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It should stress the similarity between the two, not the difference.
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at first i thought it was interesting, and perhaps a wax sculpture of a guy.... then i realised it was a cheap look-alike.
great message though "You'd think is quality wood...but it's not!"
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@Vladimir: Nice rebuttal :P
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This is the coolest TNG bridge I've ever seen. Do you have build plans you'd be willing to share/sell?
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This is the coolest TNG bridge I've ever seen. Do you have build plans you'd be willing to share/sell?
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Great bridge! Clever way to do the view-screen image.
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December 26, 2013
Excellent work, nice and clean. The jungle is a good addition, too. :)
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December 11, 2013
Nicely done.
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November 11, 2013
Excellent design. Even though some parts are missing, and certain color schemes are off, this is one of the BEST bridge renderings I've ever seen, and the jungle display for the view screen is brilliant! Lovely work! You've done TNG proud. =3
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November 10, 2013
Wow! This is fantastic I love how you made the bridge viewer brilliant! The figs look great too. The bridge looks perfect. Excellent !
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Incredible job, youve done here! Best dude is Geordi La Forge with his vision aid. ;PP
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November 9, 2013
Great MOC! Nice details and accuracy, especially for what appears to be a purist MOC. Cool view screen effect too.
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November 9, 2013
tng is my best tv show ever! you did it justice, it s very cool! lucky you, the troy hair piece is the one I want for many years, it s beautiful and very fitting, engage!!!
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November 9, 2013
Nice! The "monitor-screen" with the jungle is excellent!
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November 9, 2013
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Love what you did with the screen!
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November 9, 2013
This is great! Easily recognizable, and very well built. I've done some Enterprise corridors and a shuttlebay in LDD you might like to check out.
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November 9, 2013
Nice work, Dude! Can't say as I've seen a TNG bridge either. I like that away mission scene, too. Good luck, Wesley! Hahahaha!
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Absolutely incredible! Great work!
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November 9, 2013
What a great tribute to an awesome show! I especially like the "paneling" on the side walls.
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well done - don't think I've ever seen a TNG bridge in Lego till now! Excellent!
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November 9, 2013
You are a master of all things Trek.
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November 9, 2013
Great texture on all the walls, and I love the different levels of control panels!
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November 9, 2013
Fantastically accurate Vlad! Love how you did the walls with the white boxes and the inset plates, gives it real depth and texture. The fact that you marooned Wesley makes me giddy with pleasure. The scene through the main view screen is absolutely perfect. Spectacular work, looks like it was extremely tricky to get the smooth look. Excellent!
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November 9, 2013
Yes, finally someone knows what to do with Wesley! Anyway, great job with the details on the bridge and jungle scene. Where did you get the pieces for the characters?
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The room is fantastic by itself, and the jungle is outstanding ! Honoured to be the first to comment and like it...
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im having that same problem but the kwp 2000 was givin to me but im trying to use it still
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but in that prorgram, along with ALL others,
then I need to set a Com Port, but the device isn't functioning as a serial communication device, soo can't really use that program.
do anyone know if there is ANY program, or drivers for the KWP2000, so that it is recognized as an Com port, so that I can use it in the bunch of free programs that are out there...?
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im having that same problem but the kwp 2000 was givin to me but im trying to use it still
the port is only visible when the diagnostic interface is connected to your laptop as its USB so it installs a serial to USB converter, you can view it in your control panel in device manager
? you need to be in control panel in device manager to see it when you plug your device in it will bleep to tell you then you can set the coms
I know that with my ELM thing, once I installed the drivers it did something very similar. In device manager at first, it comes up as a USB bridge thing and I have to install the drivers for it. After, once it installed, there was another thing hidden away in the device manager called USB to COM whatever, and I had to install the exact same driver files for that one too. Only then does it actually work.
I gave up the ghost and went OEM because Citroen is multiplex and that was a lesson to me because I already have that stuff? what a waste £££££ but im an old tech so granted a few mistakes but you young guys have it all at your fingertips, in my time a multimeter and a break out box ( BOB ) was sophisticated enough but still works in today's tech and in most cases required because your laptops cant cope with it lol
the kwp2000 is used to flash an ecu never seen it used for diagnostics


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Final Fantasy XI created a lot of magnificent regions for players to explore right from the moment it launched, and every subsequent expansion has added new areas without making them feel redundant. Considering that the game's next expansion is on the way, I thought it was apropos to look at what makes the zones so wonderful as well as what mistakes the designers might try to avoid when making the new areas in the west.
Final Fantasy XI created a lot of magnificent regions for players to explore right from the moment it launched, and every subsequent expansion has added new areas without making them feel redundant. Considering that the game's next expansion is on the way, I thought it was apropos to look at what makes the zones so wonderful as well as what mistakes the designers might try to avoid when making the new areas in the west.
Always there
One of the things that bothers me about a lot of MMOs is that zones are treated essentially like levels. You finish up in Zone A and there's never any reason to return again because you cleared everything. Star Wars: The Old Republic gets a lot of flak for this, but it actually gives players a lot of reasons to go back to earlier areas via companion quests and bonus missions. World of Warcraft is far worse about this, especially after the most recent expansion.
I think part of why this bothers me is the fact that Final Fantasy XI's zones are like any other part of the map. You'll be going back to each of them over and over, and not just when you change jobs. There are parts of the Dangruf Wadi that you can safely explore without hitting level 10, parts that are safe when you're between 25-30, and parts that go even higher than that. King Ranperre's Tomb has some much higher-level monsters lurking deep within to catch the unwary explorer. And that's not counting quests and missions that bring you throughout the world, making travel from point A to point B a constantly relevant consideration.
What's awesome about this: The world is never trivialized. There are entire questlines that are justified by the fact that this is a big world and not everyone can grab an airship and then teleport halfway to a necessary destination. You see high-level characters scattered throughout the game rather than grouped in the same handful of high-level areas. This creates a strong sense of setting.
What could be improved: It would be nice if occasionally two things were located next to one another. Look, the travel and attention to detail is nice, but there comes a point when it gets to be overwhelming because you can never do two things with one trip. If you want to keep the zones distributed, that's super awesome, and I hope that zones forever have relevance to many levels rather than just one level band. But let's make it a little less of a chore to get one mission done and then go traipsing off to someplace completely different for the second part.
Unique visuals
There are no two identical zones in FFXI, barring zones that are different versions of existing areas (such as Abyssea and the timeshifted zones from Wings of the Goddess). More to the point, there are no two zones that even approach identical status. The game rarely resorts to creating completely off-the-wall areas, and almost every zone can be recognized as having a very real anchoring concept, but all of them are distinct landscapes.
What's awesome about this: I shouldn't need to elaborate on why it's awesome that one game can have several different forests that look completely different. This is one of the game's big strengths, in my opinion.
What could be improved: In the quest for unique vistas, you sometimes wind up with connected zones that don't really flow together nicely. The Dunes, for instance, don't look like they should be adjacent to Konstacht and La Theine. A bit more of a gradual transition between themes would be nice.
Big and lonely
The variety of quest objectives is nice, but the fact that every zone is rather isolated help create a sense of travel distance. You aren't roaming in an area with human habitation just a bit off the road; you're exploring the dark and secret places where people are not necessarily welcome. Several of the game's missions really drive home the reality of risk by putting you into spots that are several zones removed from even basic amenities.
The result is that rather than a more traditional hub model, the game's habitations are few and far between, and quests from central locations can send you all over the globe. Not to mention searching for ingredients or even just a good farming location. The heavier lifting always requires appropriately removed zones, which is part of why questgivers don't just solve their own stupid problems.
What's awesome about this: One of the things I like about FFXI is that it doesn't care about you. It's a big place with big threats, and you are not a special and magical snowflake. The fact that the world is this spread out is just a little way of reminding you of that, meaning that every time you successfully navigate through the wilds, it genuinely matters. The wild feels wild.
What could be improved: Of course, it's also super fun to be stuck in the middle of an area with no easy way to get back out and no nearby port in the storm. There's something to be said for really being out in the wild, but having some way to get back to some form of habitation isn't entirely a failing. Make some concessions to accessibility.
Zoning out
Areas in FFXI are remarkably well-designed, moreso than entries in some other MMOs or even in some single-player titles in the franchise. There are just a couple of tweaks that could be made with the expansion that would really make them sing.
If you've got some favorite zones or even some elements to add, feel free to do so in the comments down below or via mail to email@example.com. Next week, second verse, same as the first -- but I'll be talking about Final Fantasy XIV this time.
From Eorzea to Vana'diel, there is a constant: the moogles. And for analysis and opinions about the online portions of the Final Fantasy series, there is also a constant: The Mog Log. Longtime series fan Eliot Lefebvre serves up a new installment of the log every Saturday, covering almost anything related to Square-Enix's vibrant online worlds.


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Who knows he may be here right know useing a infiltrator SN....WooOOoo
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Oh crap! I didn't think of that. Man now I have to decontaminate my self!
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When Dave Zirin first reported on the Colorado Rockies in 2006, they were an extreme-evangelical outfit going nowhere fast. A year later, God's Team might actually have a prayer. On the eve of the World Series, we've pulled this report out of the archives.
In Colorado, there stands a holy shrine called Coors Field. On this site, named for the holiest of beers, a team plays that has been chosen by Jesus Christ himself to play .500 baseball in the National League West. And if you don't believe me, just ask the manager, the general manager and the team's owner.
In a remarkable article from Wednesday's USA Today, the Colorado Rockies went public with the news that the organization has been explicitly looking for players with "character." And according to the Tribe of Coors, "character" means accepting Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior. "We're nervous, to be honest with you," Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd said. "It's the first time we ever talked about these issues publicly. The last thing we want to do is offend anyone because of our beliefs." When people are nervous that they will offend you with their beliefs, it's usually because their beliefs are offensive.
As Rockies chairman and CEO Charlie Monfort said, "We had to go to hell and back to know where the Holy Grail is. We went through a tough time and took a lot of arrows."
Club president Keli McGregor chimed in, "Who knows where we go from here? The ability to handle success will be a big part of the story, too. [Note to McGregor: You're in fourth place.] There will be distractions. There will be things that can change people. But we truly do have something going on here. And [God's] using us in a powerful way."
Well, someone is using somebody, but it ain't God. San Francisco Giants first baseman-outfielder Mark Sweeney, who spent 2003 and 2004 with the Rockies, said, "You wonder if some people are going along with it just to keep their jobs. Look, I pray every day. I have faith. It's always been part of my life. But I don't want something forced on me. Do they really have to check to see whether I have a Playboy in my locker?"
Then there is manager Clint Hurdle and GM O'Dowd. Hurdle, who has guided the team to a Philistine 302-376 record since 2002, as well as fourth or fifth place finishes every year, was rewarded with a 2007 contract extension in the off-season. Hurdle also claims he became a Christian three years ago and says, "We're not going to hide it. We're not going to deny it. This is who we are."
O'Dowd, who also received a contract extension, believes that their 27-26 2006 record has resulted from the active intervention of the Almighty. "You look at things that have happened to us this year. You look at some of the moves we made and didn't make. You look at some of the games we're winning. Those aren't just a coincidence. God has definitely had a hand in this." Or maybe the management that prays together gets paid together.
O'Dowd and company bend over backward in the article to say they are "tolerant" of other views on the club, but that's contradicted by statements like this from CEO Monfort: "I don't want to offend anyone, but I think character-wise we're stronger than anyone in baseball. Christians, and what they've endured, are some of the strongest people in baseball. I believe God sends signs, and we're seeing those." Assumedly, Shawn Green (Jew), Ichiro Suzuki (Shinto) or any of the godless players from Cuba don't have the "character" Monfort is looking for.