Extension will use single-bore method to avoid disrupting San Jose traffic

Source: BART tunnel: Agency votes to move forward with new tunnel – Curbed SF

If your company lets you expense the nicest hotel when you travel, why wouldn’t you? But what if you got to split the savings with your employer by selecting a less expensive hotel? A New Yor…

Source: Rocketrip raises $15 million to reward cost-saving employees | TechCrunch

This is modeled off of Google’s internal/corporate travel system and indeed is funded by Google Ventures.

Why Republicans ended up at war with America’s schoolteachers.

Source: Opinion | We Don’t Need No Education – The New York Times

A push for stronger rent control across California is underway.

Source: Activists are pushing for stronger California rent control | The Sacramento Bee

San Francisco’s latest vision for South of Market preserves Interstate 280, gets rid of the Caltrain rail yard, and has the commuter rail line’s downtown extension bypass Mission Bay, instead dipping underground a mile before its current station at Fourth and King streets. A study to be released Monday, after 3½ years of work, significantly revises an idea raised by then-Mayor Ed Lee in 2013 to improve transit connectivity and create a new neighborhood. That plan called for rerouting Caltrain, and future high-speed rail trains, through Mission Bay to serve the growing neighborhood.

Source: New, simpler plan for SF’s downtown rail extension – San Francisco Chronicle

All state and local taxes would need two-thirds approval under an initiative sponsored by the California Business Roundtable currently gathering signatures for the November 2018 election. The beverage industry is a major donor.

Source: California initiative would make it harder to raise taxes | The Sacramento Bee

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/movies/review-jim-and-andy-jim-carrey.html

Milos Forman, the director of Man on the Moon who won oscars for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus just died this month.

The R211 is a future new technology (NTT) New York City Subway car to be built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway (SIR). They will replace all remaining R32, R44 (SIR), and R46 subway cars. The order is split into three parts: R211A and R211T cars for the subway and R211S cars for the SIR. The R211Ts will employ open gangways between cars, a feature not present on current rolling stock. The base order consists of 535 cars, with options for up to 1,077 additional cars.

Source: R211 (New York City Subway car) – Wikipedia

These will replace the oldest cars in the system on the A, etc.

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Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives.

Source: Opinion | The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem – The New York Times

The Unique Orbit of NASA’s Newest Planet HunterNASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite – TESS will fly in an orbit that completes two circuits around the Earth every time the Moon orbits. This special orbit will allow TESS’s cameras to monitor each patch of sky continuously from nearly a month at a time. To get into this orbit, TESS will make a series of loops culminating in a lunar gravitational-assist, which will give it the push it needs. TESS will reach its orbit about 60 days after launch.Music: “Drive to Succeed” from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Source: GMS: TESS Shorts

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