California is poised to FLOP!! again!!: CalTrain does not have a local train to arrive from all Silicon Valley and Peninsula stops before 5am or even 6am with the race start of the 100th BAY TO BREAKERS Spring fun run (the pro runners are just a nuisance and can run off a pier for all most care) a mile and half away at 7am. Does BART(70mph system failed experiment in not buying a Japanese bullet train system) have enough early large trains from the East Bay? Doubtful with incompetent mgmt that fired the train cleaners 3 years ago, the last time i rode.
Oh, right, the media avoids the obvious potential disaster ,,, until it is OFFICIAL ,,, and they can "report" it , like they did with all the close-ups of the 1989 fires in the Marina District to Scare-shock news-value people ,instead of a more honest perspective from the Golden Gate Bridge or Pacific Heights.
Another poor prep. Bay Area disaster recently?
No problem: the 50 anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in the spring of 1987. I was there, so no johnny-come-lately-Historian pomposity here. The evening tv news in the night before broadcasts said that the S.F. Mayor, Diane Feinstein, had closed the Golden Gate Bridge to cars, a bridge she and the State do not own by the way, and 2 state freeways , 1 and 101, and only "200 to 300 celebrants were expected",,,!!. I drove up the peninsula and got there early and watched the crowd on a beautiful spring day grow to estimated 800,000 on the bridge from the foot high rail separating the sidewalk then from the road at the south end of the bridge. We were packed as tight as a can of sardines and there were fights when people could not leave, esp. to even go to a bathroom!! Not near enough cops to keep the people moving across the bridge in opposite directions like cars, in fact damn few cops, which is common in SF. When people far away called 911 with fears of the bridge collapsing from the big sag in the middle, only then did the CHP and other cops show up in force to quickly "party over" for no reason, until we got home and saw the huge sag with our own eyes!!
Next is the 100th running /walking of the BAY TO BREAKERS on Sunday 15 May 2011. Expect too many to drive and too many to not find parking in SF. And expect all the State and Bay Area politicians to say they did not 'expect' such a crowd , most say over 100,000 are coming from far states and wide!!
Then , next ,,, we can embarrass ourselves by not being ready for Larry E.'s-Oracle's AMERICA'S CUP sailing race, expected to bring 'a Billion$ to the Bay'. We Californians voted for high speed rail, but expect huge car-jams, frustrated visitors,,, "the usual".
Where is that thing we use to call ,,, "Political Leadership"?!!
Embarrassing, isn't it?
