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|2007-08-12, 23:19
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Well, my editing situation is this right now...
Yoigoshi-hen I don't want to edit right now because if I get farther I'll be editing tankobonless.
Tsumihoroboshi-hen I'm in the middle of a very time consuming edit, and I'm editing a doujin for another community, I'm in the middle of what, like 8 succesive incredibly difficult edits >_>. Yoigoshi-hen is lookign really appealing right now ;_;
|2007-08-13, 10:33
|Link #244
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
I'm probably dropping out of editing that but since we're not doing sfx that arc is way easy to work on. Kuma was working on the hellish to edit omake of Oni Sarashi last I heard, so I'm pretty sure if you started on volume two you wouldn't double translate anything.. I'll email him and see what he wants to do.
There's also this one-shot side story that looks pretty interesting...
|2007-08-13, 12:39
|Link #246
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brazil
Do you want to edit this one-shot?
It's pretty simple
give me your "OK", and I do it
|2007-08-13, 14:55
|Link #247
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
I can get started on cleaning it up at least.
I start driving toward Calif on Saturday, and I've got a lot of packing left to do as well as meetings with friends/family members, so worst case scenario I can post the psds on the ftp for someone else to finish.
Edit: booyakashaa
Double edit: raws all cleaned up.
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|2007-08-14, 20:54
|Link #252
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Okay, done with edits except the three rightward bubbles on this page:
And the credits on here:
Also I wanted to ask about a couple lines..
Page 14: "They feel like giving off a bad feeling"
Page 23: When she says "I wonder" "I wonder" is she saying "kana kana"? (Cause I left that the other time)
Edit: Kuma just got back to me, seems he's still interested in working on Oni Sarashi volume 2 (and finally has some time to work on it) and has started into it.
But he never got a chance to work on the omake and preview for volume one (and doesn't really want to >_>) if you have any interest in it? Pretty intimidating stuff both editing and translating wise, but it definitely looks edifying.
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|2007-08-15, 06:44
|Link #253
Guitar Man
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brazil
don't kow why
but my page 18 doesn't have the right half of it
I'll put here the mising parts
page 18
- and then--- look at Mii-chan, she has a girlish side
- Satoko-chan is spoiled
- While Rika-chan is a self-confident person
- Keiichi-kun is----
- Hey Rena
- hm?
page 23
Yeah, it's kana kana
page 14
in fact this line is kind of ODD translated (my bad)
maybe it's better like this:
- I'm thinking on these eerie things
suits better
manga: Konno Yakiyoshi
Original work: Ryuukishi07, 07th expansion
I'll do the omake
sending you soon
|2007-08-15, 14:31
|Link #255
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Yup, pages 167-172.
Thanks for those translations Ace!! m(_ _)m I'll get this out right away!
Edit: and done! Grab it here: http://www.freewebs.com/aortic/higurashidoujinshi.htm
Last edited by Aortic; 2007-08-15 at 15:05.
|2007-08-28, 12:21
|Link #259
Higurashi fan.
Join Date: Dec 2005
hey just curious? how famous is higurashi in japan? because i dont really see chinese versions of these comics. i see alot of japanese comics translated to chinese though.
ah one more thing, about utsutsukowashi-hen
Spoiler for comic:
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|2007-08-28, 17:45
|Link #260
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
As for how famous it is in Japan, it was a doujin game made by a one person team that was adapated into a 52 episode anime, PS2 game, manga, drama CDs, and both light and regular novels, so I'd say there must be some kind of popularity there.
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State Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man whose body was found on property adjacent to the Maine Criminal Justice Academy along Route 201 in the central Maine town of Vassalboro.
The body was found by Kennebec County deputies who were called to the scene about 7 a.m., according to a news release from Maine Public Safety Spokesman Steve McCausland.
The body has since been identified as belonging to 69-year-old Thomas Namer, who lived at 89 Pleasant St. in Waterville. The State Medical Examiner's Office in Augusta is conducting an autopsy.
Police have classified the death as suspicious.
Ina news release, police said that during the course of the investigation, a Vassalboro man was taken into custody for a probation violation unrelated to the death.
Courtney Shea, 30, lives next door to where the body was found, and as he was being interviewed by detectives, it was determined he had violated probation for a past robbery conviction, accoridng to police. Shea was arrested on the probation charge and taken to the Kennebec County Jail.


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PETER Davies, president of Pill Harriers and a former back-row forward with Newport RFC, has died aged 88.
Mr Davies was born in Pill in December 1925. After school he began work at Newport Docks and, encouraged by his rugby playing father and uncles, he began playing rugby.
At 18, and already a powerful and mobile forward, Newport RFC spotted him playing for the Ebbw Bridge Junction Club.
He gave great service to Newport RFC, playing 259 times between 1944 and 1953 and in his last season he was vice-captain of the team containing Ken Jones and Malcolm Thomas.
Mr Davies was approached to turn professional and after much thought about local loyalties and future opportunities, he decided to join Leigh RLC.
He made his debut in October 1953 in front of 11,000 people and over the three seasons to 1956 he made 48 appearances for Leigh.
In addition to his rugby playing, he and his wife Gwen ran the Brown Cow pub and later The Railway Hotel in Leigh.
In 1955, Mr Davies' second son Glyn was born with Down's Syndrome and, some 18 months later, he gave up his rugby career and the family moved back to Newport where there was the support of relatives and old friends.
Mr and Mrs Davies reasoned that in Newport their son could be brought up enjoying his place in the extended family.
After his wife died, Mr Davies became his son's sole carer and when, in 2005, Glyn died, Peter said that he had lost not only a son but also a very good friend.
In the 1980s, Mr Davies was asked to follow his cousin Bunner Travers and become chairman of Pill Harriers RFC and he readily agreed.
Mr Davies' father and a number of uncles and cousins look out from the photographs of Pill Harriers rugby teams back to before WWI and he later became president.
He was greatly admired for his prowess on the rugby field, his devotion to his family, his unbounded commitment to Glyn and his great loyalty to all who had the pleasure of earning it.
He leaves three children – Peter (also a Newport RFC player), Karen and Julie – 13 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
His funeral will take place at 11am at St Stephen's Church, Pill on, Monday, March 10.


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6 Market Basket Deadlines Come and Gone
On Monday, the two sides of the Demoulas family said they would push to reach a resolution to the Market Basket standoff by the end of the week. The Boston Globe reported Friday that former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas has submitted a "final'' offer to buy out the grocery company from rival shareholders.
The company's board is expected to meet soon.
With Market Basket reportedly in a dire financial situation, and with a deafening amount of silence coming out of the chain the past few days after weeks of noise, it may well be that we're on the brink of closure.
Then again, deadlines and ultimatums have come and gone in the Market Basket saga a few times already, from multiple sides. They've had varying degrees of success. As we inch toward a possible resolution, here's a look at past attempts from just about everybody to make something happen, and how they've worked out.
1.Demand:Bring back Arthur T.
Delivered by: Employees
Delivered to: CEOs, board of directors
Deadline: July 17
Details: In the week leading up to the pivotal July 18 employee action, Market Basket workers submitted a written demand to co-CEOs Felicia Thornton and James Gooch, intended to reach the board of directors, demanding a response by the end of the day on July 17 to their previous demand for the reinstatement of Arthur T. Demoulas. What they got was a letter from the CEOs saying the matter would be discussed at a board meeting the next week. The letter also told employees that if they "abandon'' their jobs, they would be permanently replaced. Employees said that wasn't good enough and the next day staged a rally drawing more than 2,500 to company headquarters, with most warehouse workers and office employees effectively leaving their posts.
Effect: Employees didn't get what they wanted, but they certainly followed through on the threat. Business at the chain, if you haven't heard, hasn't been too hot.
2. Demand: Stay on the job, or you'll be replaced.
Delivered by: CEOs
Delivered to: Employees
Deadline: N/A; applied to planned worker action on July 18
Details: This is really a companion to demand No. 1 above. Headquarters and warehouse employees were told they'd be replaced if they staged a walkout on July 17. The next day, employees did just that. A couple days later, eight employees—thought to be at the head of the protest movement—were fired by courier.
Effect: Hundreds of employees left their jobs. (Not all did—a few headquarters employees still remain.) A few were fired, but in future weeks that seemed to mostly be a galvanizing force for protesters. The CEOs followed through to an extent on the ultimatum, but it didn't get protesters back to work.
3. Demand: Submit a bid.
Delivered by: Board of directors
Delivered to: Arthur T. and family, apparently
Deadline: Unclear; acknowledged July 25
Details: On July 25, two days after Arthur T. Demoulas submitted a bid to buy out rival shareholders, the company's board of directors issued a statement acknowledging they had received the offer and saying they would discuss it. The statement read in part: "…the offer was received prior to the deadline for 'B' shareholders (ed.: that's Arthur T.'s side) to present a proposal.'' Requests for further info on this deadline were not returned at the time. Since, Arthur T.'s side has submitted other bids, so if there was a deadline, it was essentially one for an opening volley.
Effect: Well, a proposal was presented, so that must mean it worked. Weird deadline, that one.
4. Demand: Get back to work or you'll be replaced.
Delivered by: CEOs
Delivered to: Employees
Deadline: August 4
Details: As July moved toward August, the CEOs told the employees who left their positions they were needed back at work on Monday, August 4. In anticipation that some would not return, they company held job fairs that week.
Effect: Employees didn't return to work. However, ahead of that deadline, some workers did receive notes saying they would not be paid for August if they didn't return. So to some extent, the CEOs followed through. Still, the issuing of essentially the same ultimatum a couple weeks later (see below) pretty much renders this one moot.
5. Demand: Pay us.
Delivered by: Upset vendor
Delivered to: CEOs
Deadline: ASAP; delivered August 12
Details: After not receiving payments from Market Basket for a couple of weeks, and after several days of not receiving calls or emails in response to their inquiries, local vendor Boston Sword & Tuna sends a letter to co-CEO Felicia Thornton on August 12 threatening legal action if bills are not paid soon.
Effect: It worked, but maybe too well. Thornton quickly got back to the company and CEO Tim Malley received payment a few days later. The problem: They were overpaid by $400,000, leading Malley to openly question management and cut off business with the chain. Several other vendors have also cut off their business and are openly calling for the return of Arthur T. Demoulas.
6. Demand: Get back to work or you'll be replaced. Again.
Delivered by: CEOs
Delivered to: Employees
Deadline: August 15
Details: After the August 4 deadline to return to work was more or less blown off by warehouse and headquarters workers, the CEOs issued a "last request'' via FedEx for workers to return on Friday, August 15. Gov. Deval Patrick also asked employees to heed this call.
Effect: Employees said nope again. The company has not yet commented on what that means. A Boston Globe report suggests the CEOs agreed a few days later not fire anybody as negotiations continue. The way the letter with the August 15 deadline was written suggested workers would have been considered to have resigned their positions, not terminated, if they didn't return. Let's say this: The deadline didn't work, and its effects haven't yet been felt. Bonus: A separate demand issued by the CEOs to store managers the same week asked that they take down protest signs from stores. That one—which had no date attached to it—hasn't worked out either.


text: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, john152 at libero.it wrote: > i'd like to have a mechanism able to detect instantaneously a link > failure between two computers each with an ethernet card and with > Linux software. Instantaneously? Depending on your definition, that's not possible. Some hardware provides a quick notification that link beat has been lost, for media types that have link beat. > Is there a software that do so? Yes, in part. I've implemented this in most common drivers: mii-diag --watch eth0 mii-diag --status eth0 > If threre is a software, where does it bring the failure information > from? Polling an ioctl() on the device. Please follow-up on the netdrivers at scyld.com (aka netdrivers at beowulf.org) mailing list, unless you can relate this to a cluster topic. -- Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993


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text: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:57:23PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > in the interests of less personal/posturing/pissing, let me ask: > where does the win from coalescing come from? I would have thought > that coalescing is mainly a way to reduce interrupts, a technique > that's familiar from ethernet interrupt mitigation, NAPI, even basic disk > scheduling. The coalescing we're talking about here is more like TCP's Nagle algorithm: The sending side defers sending a packet so that it can send a single larger packet instead of several small ones. In HPC we mostly hate the Nagle algorithm, because it isn't omniscient: it tends to always delay our messages hoping to get a 2nd one to the same target, but we rarely send a 2nd message to the same target that could be combined. People don't write much MPI code that works like that; it's always better to do the combining yourself. > to me it looks like the key factor would be "propagation of desire" - > when the app sends a message and will do nothing until the reply, > it probably doesn't make sense to coalesce that message. Yes, that's one way to think about it. > assuming MPI is the application-level interface, are there interesting > issues related to knowing where to deliver messages? I don't have a > good understanding about where things stand WRT things like QP usage > (still N*N? is N node count or process count?) or unexpected messages. A traditional MPI implementation uses N QPs x N processes, so the global number of QPs is N^2. InfiniPath's pm library for MPI uses a much smaller endpoint than a QP. Using a ton of QPs does slow down things (hurts scaling), and that's why SRQ (shared receive queues) was added to IB. MVAPICH has several different ways it can handle messages, configured (last I looked) at compile time: checking memory for delivered messages for tiny clusters, ordinary QPs at medium size, SRQ at large cluster sizes. The reason it switches is scalability; SQRs scale better but are fairly expensive in the Mellanox silicon. Since latency/bandwidth benchmarks are generally run at only 2 nodes, well, you can fill in the rest of this paragraph. InfiniPath's pm library uses a lighter-weight thing that's somewhat like an SRQ -- at all cluster sizes. This is why it scales so nicely. It wasn't a novel invention -- the T3E MPI implementation used a similar gizmo. > now that I'm inventorying ignorance, I don't really understand why RDMA > always seems to be presented as a big hardware issue. wouldn't it be > pretty easy to define an eth or IP-level protocol to do remote puts, > gets, even test-and-set or reduce primitives, where the interrupt handler > could twiddle registered blobs of user memory on the target side? That approach is called Active Messages, and can be bolted on to pretty much every messaging implementation. Doesn't OpenMX provide that kind of interface? The NoSQL distributed computing thingie we built for Blekko's search engine uses active messages. -- greg


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Diane Ford (Michelle Monaghan), a vivacious and successful independent truck driver, leads a carefree life of long-haul trucking, one night stands and all-night drinking with Runner (Nathan Fillion, Serenity, Waitress, "Castle") until the evening her estranged 11-year-old son, Peter (Jimmy Bennett, young James Kirk in Star Trek) is unexpectedly dropped at her door.
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text: In a previous message, Mikhail Kuzminksy spoke about multithreading and hyperthreading, and also superscalar microprocessors. I would like to add a few remarks for the sake of greater precision. Superscalar and out-of-order execution has a high hardware cost because of the large amount of logic needed to organize the execution steps dynamically. The primary motivation for the Itanium was that this organizing of the work at a fine-grained level would be done by the compiler. Multithreading means that the processors gives time slices to various threads. The state of the CPU for each thread is switched between thread. Hyperthreading has several threads executing at the same time, so exceptions and condition codes may be for one or another thread at the same time. For clusters, parallel execution generally uses message passing so the user does not write the code as a multithreaded program. As a consequence the application program would not be using hyperthreading. Alan Scheinine


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Huishang Bank Corp Ltd plans to launch its Hong Kong IPO next week, seeking to raise up to $1.3 billion to bolster its balance sheet after years of steep growth in lending, in the biggest listing of a financial firm in the city in three years.
Huishang Bank is offering 2.61 billion shares in a range of HK$3.50 to HK$3.88 each, putting the total deal value at up to HK$10.13 billion ($1.31 billion), a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Saturday. The offer is expected to be priced on November 6, added the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Huishang Bank's initial public offering will follow one by Bank Of Chongqing, which is seeking to raise up to $593 million in a Hong Kong offer. Bank of Chongqing, among several mainland Chinese lenders to tap capital markets to bolster their balance sheets, is set to price its up to $593 million IPO on October 31.
City commercial banks such as Huishang and Bank of Chongqing have grown rapidly in recent years because of consolidation in the sector, surging loan demand from small- and medium-sized enterprises and a boom in consumer finance.
China had 144 city commercial banks at the end of 2012 and combined assets worth 12.35 trillion yuan ($2.03 trillion), or about 9.2 percent of the country's total.
Chinese financial firms, including Huishang and Bank of Chongqing, are aiming to raise around $11 billion through Hong Kong IPOs between now and the first half of next year, according to Thomson Reuters estimates.
The two were among several other small and medium-sized Chinese lenders that have sought listings in Hong Kong after waiting several years for approval from the securities regulator in mainland China. Other financial firms with deals in the pipeline include China Everbright Bank, Harbin Bank, China Cinda Asset Management and Longjiang Bank.
Huishang started meeting with investors about its deal on October 21. The bank could not immediately be reached for comment.
The deal is the biggest in Hong Kong by a bank since Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank (3618.HK) raised $1.7 billion in its IPO in September 2010, according to Reuters data.
Huishang had total assets of 3,242.24 billion yuan at the end of 2012 and total deposits of 2,395.43 billion yuan, according to the company's website.
Its non-performing loan ratio was 0.58 percent and it earned a net profit of 4.31 billion yuan in 2012, up 23.3 percent from the year before.
Huishang, which was set up in 2005 through the merger of seven urban credit cooperatives, has about 190 branches.
BOC International, Citic Securities International (600030.SS)(6030.HK), JPMorgan (JPM.N), Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and UBS AG UBSN.VX are leading the transaction.
($1 = 7.7540 Hong Kong dollars)
Reporting by Elzio Barreto; Editing by Denny Thomas/Michael Perry and Catherine Evans


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Vini IlluminatiPosted by Martin Field on 8 November 2010 in Wine Travel
by Annie Field
Last Wednesday we were hosted by the Illuminati wine family. We stayed an extra couple of nights in the wintery Le Marche region, just to attend the work organised appointment. We met up with Stefano Illuminati around midday for a tour of their facilities, a tasting and what was described as a lunch that was to be "nothing special" in the organising pre-emails.
The winery and vines are actually in the Abruzzo region which borders Le Marche to the south. Stefano shepherded us into his Porsche for a tour of their expansive vineyards, pointing out the different vineyards (Montepulciano being the star, the white Pecorino an up and comer), trellising techniques (they use both espalier and canopy styles) and described with ardour how the business has grown since his great grandfather established it over one hundred years earlier. Read the rest of this entry


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Ann Arbor officials hope new railroad ownership could boost commuter rail, greenway plans
The Kansas-based company taking over the Ann Arbor Railroad says it's open to talking about future commuter rail service and the vision for a greenway trail system along the tracks.
After years of poor relations with the railroad's current owner, the Howell-based Ann Arbor Acquisition Corp., Ann Arbor officials are calling the promise of new ownership a positive move.
"That is great news and hopefully we can work with them to further our local rail initiatives," said Eli Cooper, the city's transportation programs manager.
Mayor John Hieftje is among the supporters of the WALLY commuter rail project and the vision for the Allen Creek Greenway. He said the Ann Arbor Railroad has been an obstacle up to this point.
"They've never been easy to work with," he said. "It's been hard at some points over the years for the city just to get a good conversation with them about this railroad that runs right through our city.
Daniel Brenner | AnnArbor.com
The Ann Arbor Railroad — a so-called "shortline" that runs from Ann Arbor to Toledo — is being acquired by a Kansas transportation company that wants to expand into Ohio.
Watco Railroad Company Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Watco Companies LLC, has reached an agreement to purchase the 50-mile railway, which serves southeastern Michigan and the Toledo markets, focusing mostly on the automobile and manufacturing industries.
Most of the Ann Arbor Railroad's operations are in Toledo, but the headquarters is in Howell. A spokesperson for the company couldn't be reached for comment.
News of the changing ownership this past week sparked questions about whether Watco will be more amenable to talking with local officials about the proposed WALLY commuter rail line from Howell to Ann Arbor and the city's vision for the Allen Creek Greenway, which hinges on acquisition of railway right-of-way to develop a system of walking and biking trails along the tracks.
Ed McKechnie, Watco's chief commercial officer, said he hasn't yet had talks with anyone from the Michigan Department of Transportation or the city about his company's acquisition of the railroad and what it could mean, but he's hopeful there will be a good conversation.
"We're going to be in the Ann Arbor community for the next 100 years and we want to work with people," McKechnie said. "We're always open to talking to people about opportunities. We're always interested in talking about ways to create value."
McKechnie said when he came to Ann Arbor to look at the railroad and saw how close it comes to Michigan Stadium, he knew there'd be a desire to add some type of passenger rail.
"We're not saying yes, we're not saying no," he said, suggesting Watco doesn't want to be associated with any type of passenger rail unless it can meet people's expectations for performance.
"Passenger rail business is vastly different than freight rail," he said. "We're not going to get into something where we can't exceed people's expectations. It's gotta be a real deal.
McKechnie said he can't make any promises about the greenway, but he's open to hearing more about it. At first glance, he has concerns about pedestrians near the tracks, even if separated by a fence.
"We're always extraordinarily cautious when it comes to putting people right next to railroad track because trains just can't stop on a dime, and we're very concerned about people's safety," he said.
Hieftje said it makes a lot of sense to use the right-of-way along the Ann Arbor Railroad to expand options for nonmotorized transportation.
"It's just a great corridor that we could make use of to have people walking and biking," he said. "You just make use of that right-of-way. There's only a few trains a day."
City Council Member Sabra Briere, D-1st Ward, said the Ann Arbor Railroad has gained a reputation for being tough on ticketing people for walking along the tracks.
"It would be great to have somebody running that train system that was more amenable to at-grade crossings," she said. "We all want the relationships to be better."
Watco is a shortline holding company with several different lines throughout the country. It operates the line between Grand Rapids and Elkhart, Ind., under a lease agreement.
"We have a good working relationship with the Michigan Department of Transportation, so we know a lot of the folks in the transportation industry in Michigan," McKechnie said.
He said Watco is optimistic and excited about the Ann Arbor Railroad and believes there's potential to bring more business and add new jobs along the line.
"The auto industry is a significant part of the business," he said. "We did the analysis of the customer base and we believe it's there for the long-term. We're very much a long-term company."
McKechnie said there won't be any significant changes in the operations — it should continue to run just about the same as it does now. He said the Ann Arbor Railroad is "extremely well run" and the management team that's already there now will continue to help run the line.
As far as WALLY, significant work will be done in 2013 on station location studies, station design and environmental impacts.
Michael Benham, a strategic planner for the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority who is working on the project, said he has talked to folks at MDOT who have worked with Watco over the years and they give good reports about working with the company.
"Watco has expressed a prior willingness to cooperate with passenger operations (Amtrak) and they currently have trackage rights on the Michigan line in Kalamazoo, so they operate in the state on the same route with Amtrak already," Benham said, adding it seems Watco is passenger-friendly.
It's estimated about 1,300 riders each way per day would use a commuter rail service between Ann Arbor and Howell. That number has not been updated since 2007.
It's also estimated to require $19 million to $35 million in capital costs. The total estimated operating cost is about $7.1 million annually.
Courtesy of Friends of the Ann Arbor Greenway
Supporters of a north-south rail line bringing commuters into Ann Arbor argue it would be significantly more costly to add extra highway lanes for automobile traffic on US-23. MDOT previously estimated that adding a third lane to US-23 would cost about $500 million.
Hieftje said the WALLY commuter rail project emerged around 2005 or 2006 as an alternative to adding more lanes on US-23.
"We recognize there's a big traffic jam every morning (on US-23) with people trying to come into Ann Arbor," he said, but he doesn't think adding lanes solves anything.
"WALLY is so much better than new lanes on US-23. What would more lanes do? They would just put more cars on those roads. It wouldn't help at all. They'd still be backed up."
Hieftje noted the University of Michigan has offered to subsidize the cost of WALLY tickets for its employees who want to commute to work by rail.
While he supports the WALLY concept, Hieftje is quick to point out the city doesn't have any money to spend on it. The funding would have to come from somewhere else.
Hieftje also said it's not his highest priority when looking at rail travel. He's more excited about Ann Arbor-to-Detroit commuter rail.
Making a case for rail, Hieftje said about 3,000 new parking spaces have been built in Ann Arbor in about the last decade, counting both the city's public parking and U-M parking spots.
"If we're going to continue to grow jobs here — the university is adding about 900 jobs a year, and then there's private job growth — we're going to have to figure out ways to get people here without their cars, or we're going to have more parking structures and more traffic congestion."
Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's email newsletters.
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 3:55 a.m.
I am a huge advocate of the new "rails and trails" movement taking place around the country where a mixed use trail is next to an active rail line. I am also a proponent of commuter rail. However, based on some of the quotes in the story and comments, I would like to remind people that railroads are private property. Tresspassing on railroads is a dangerous choice. Fourteen Michiganders were killed tresspassing on Michigan railroads last year.
Roger Kuhlman
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 9:17 p.m.
Commuter rail is a very expensive boondoggle that will serve a tiny porportion of the Public. In a time when our Federal government is having tremendous problems with Debt, it is irresponsible to throw away federal funds on such projects. Every last proposed commuter rail project for Ann Arbor is a money loser but we keep going on as if the money to pay for them is free. Where is the public accountability? I ask how many of these projects would even receive a minute of consideration if the sponsors of these plans had to raise money to bring them to fruition and put significants amounts of their own money at risk
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 2:15 p.m.
The WALLY report clearly states the taxpayers are on the hook for $2.4 million a year in subsitities. It would be interesting to know how many people in Howell are willing to pay minimum of $12.61 a day to take a train to AA. Then pay to ride bus. I realize they are claiming about 1000 a day, but that seems like fantasy land to me. If you live in Brighton you need to drive 15 min to Howell to get the train, might as well drive to AA.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 3:57 p.m.
If you build it, they will come. Traffic jams are not caused by Livingston County resdents on US-23, they are cause by heavy trucks and inexperienced or unaware or selfish or uneducated driers merging into the right of way at speed well below that of flowing traffic. There are a few entrances on 23 and 94 and 14 where even the best drivers have a hard time getting up to speed. Maybe they should be closed off. The placement of the rest area on SB 23 just north of Ann Arbor was foolish. Trucks slowly rolling out of there in the a.m. are nothing more than road blocks. Make these roads toll-ways and use the money to run inter-urban trains along N/S and E/W rails. Pass a law requiring heavy trucks to travel only in the far right lane (as in Germany). Slow pokes will be regulated by their peers. More lanes don't provide a solution to this problem. This only shifts the blockers to somewhere else.
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:08 p.m.
In other words, subsidies for me but not for thee.
Macabre Sunset
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:13 p.m.
We can't magically have better drivers than any other road in the country. I agree that trucks don't belong in the left lane - especially since they aren't allowed to drive 70. Toll roads make winners and losers out of people who already pay taxes. We don't have the job or home densities required to make even remotely viable inter-urban trains. It would be a money-suck of economy-changing proportions to try and it would drive business out of the area.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:40 p.m.
1300/day my butt. The boondoggle advocate "consultants" are telling Heaveho what he wants to hear, so cut that number by 50 or 60%, and you might have a more accurate estimate. Widen 23 and be done with this enviro-fascist fantasy.
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:02 p.m.
1300 riders a day is Nothing. That is only 325 loaded cars a day. Or 162 vans. And that is a bogus 2007 number, before the economic meltdown. Many have observed that roads are more empty now. The trend is for statistics to show that car use is on the decline - both on car counts, and number of young people getting licenses. They should be forced to run a bus line on this route to validate their ridership participation claims. Very often, the bus lines are faster than the rail. That becomes very inconvenient for the rail heads. Someone needs to make a strong case for rail over buses.
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 1:54 p.m.
What is the big attraction to Howell, and spending all this money to an area that is extremely well served by highways? It's a "fly-over" city. Look at Adrian - it is poorly served by highways. But like Howell, it is a fly-over.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 1:27 p.m.
Mr. Stanton, Your 5:34 post says the operating cost per ride is $6.31. Where does that number come from? That amounts to less than $1 million a year or over 1,000,000 riders a year.
Roger Kuhlman
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 9:23 p.m.
Mr. Stanton: it is apparently your job to put out information consistent with the Left-wing political line of various of special interest groups. That's not journalism, that's PR.
Ryan J. Stanton
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 2:08 a.m.
The cost per trip estimates come from this report. Feel free to offer your opinion on the estimates but it's not my place as a reporter to share my own opinion. http://www.annarbor.com/WALLY_Roadshow.pdf
Macabre Sunset
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:03 p.m.
He's been listening to Hiefje without a good dose of common sense as counterweight. "Reporters" need to do more than sit in the mayor's office and digest the pablum they foist upon the world.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 1:04 p.m.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130103/AUTO01/301030368/Avis-buying-Zipcar-to-kick-start-growth From the article: Wednesday's decision by the Avis Budget Group Inc. to buy Zipcar Inc. not only takes the rental car giant into a new market, it also underscores a troubling fact for Detroit's automakers: Younger Americans care a lot less about owning a car or truck than their parents did. Zipcar is the largest car-sharing service, one that allows members to rent cars by the hour or by the day. Since its founding in 2000, the company has grown to more than 760,000 members — many of them on or near college campuses. In Michigan, the service is available in the college towns of Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Houghton. Detroit has locations on the Wayne State University campus. "There's a younger generation that isn't as excited about cars, that don't feel like they need to own a car. " I'm an oldster but I do think that we need to be thinking of the future....is a car in every garage, or even a garage at all, a reality for 2030?....even in Michigan? I'm not being argumentative, just wondering.....will a car be in the future for everyone? In Auto-centric Michigan we may lag behind the times, but I do think that we need to think of the future generations now. Like it or not I hear more and more that younger people do not want to depend on owning a car or driving a car, for transportation.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 3:18 p.m.
Not... it has to due with geography and population density - Europe is densely populated and geographically compact relative to the US. The only places in the US that densely populated are in the NE. Aside from that, the US is NOT, has NEVER been, and will NEVER be like Europe. You want European, move to Europe. I, for one, am grateful it is not, at least not yet.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 12:14 a.m.
Cynic.....off track here. Providing mass transit, highway systems (like Eisenhower's federal highway system) is not socialist. What you think of the country's current form of government has nothing to do with their amazing mass transit.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:57 p.m.
...And all because their governments think they can create endless amounts of money out of thin air, and spend it willy-nilly on whatever their hearts desire. Economies don't work that way... sooner or later they will have to pay the piper for their public profligacy.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:46 p.m.
Cash... You mean flourishing like Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, and Ireland, all of whom are in dire economic straits, with depression levels of unemployment, all but worthless debt, and a dysfunctional currency that probably won't survive the ongoing economic crisis. You wanna be like them?? Not me.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:51 p.m.
CynicA2, And traveling in Europe you can get around to all the great places with no car needed. It's kind of odd to take it to not liking socialism. Providing roads/highways...is that socialism? Providing schools? Transportation for the masses.....does not mean the government is a socialist government. It means the government is providing transport to help businesses flourish.....which I see as a very capitalistic idea.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 3:24 p.m.
between my wife and I we have 5 adult children in their mid 20's to early 30's. The only one without a car lives in Chicago within walking distance of her job. My gut feeling is many young people forgoing cars are making a decision to delay the purchase. Once they have kids they will get cars.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:52 p.m.
"There's a younger generation that isn't as excited about cars, that don't feel like they need to own a car. " More like they don't have any money to buy a car, after accumulating a fortune in student loans trying to get an education so they can get a job, and then not being able to find one that pays enough to afford a motor scooter, let alone a car... and of course all the government mandates on the auto makers don't exactly make cars cheaper either. Socialized transportation is not the answer - just look at Europe - right down the tubes are all their socialist boondoggles taking them.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 1:35 p.m.
You are probably correct. As the government makes our cars more boring we have less personal investment in our cars.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 1:01 p.m.
Once again math does not add up. It takes an active imagination to believe 1,300 riders will go each way from Howell to AA. However lets say that # is a good #. 2600 a day times 50 weeks, = 130,000 riders a year. $7,100,000 / 130,000 ='s $54.62 each way. Think this project will require massive taxpayer subsitite? Not a very good way to help citizens of Washtenaw County.
Charley Sullivan
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 3:16 a.m.
Let's see, if I lived up north of town and could take a train into town every day rather than sit in traffic on 23, I'd do it. Even more so, if 23 stays the two lanes it should. If I could take a train from Ypsi into Ann Arbor and back every day rather than drive, I'd do that too. Train to the football game? You betcha! So many places that trains have gone into use, nay-sayers have predicted no-one would ride. And then people discover that trains generally work, allow you to do other things on your commute, and are just pretty useful, and they start taking them. But if they do build a commuter rail service there, I hope they find a way to have the systems connect easily, like a common train station perhaps?
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:11 p.m.
That's right, all those people commuting into NYC from Long Island and Connecticut live in massively dense cities.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:38 p.m.
. Believe it or not, the tens of millions of Americans who commute by train, subway and bus every day are mostly living in the largest metropolitan areas of the country. On the eastern sea board and Chicago for starters. In those densely populated areas it make sense. I have friends and relatives that live in or near Chicago and New York. There is no question that it is feasible and efficient in those places. Its not here where we lack the population density.
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:26 p.m.
You get a lot more done sitting on the train or riding the bus than you do driving your car. That's why people are willing to spend a few more extra minutes on a train or bus versus being stuck driving a car. Believe it or not, there are tens of millions of Americans who commute by train, subway and bus every day. Not everyone wants to be strapped to a car every morning and evening.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 3:12 p.m.
Mr Sullivan, what if sitting in traffic added 15-20 minutes to your commute while taking the train added 30-45 minutes? Driving to the train station, parking, waiting to board the train, then catching a 15-30 minute bus ride because the train doesn't drop you near your work place? And times that by 2 going and coming.
Macabre Sunset
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:04 a.m.
The proposed rail stations in Livingston County are mostly in rural areas. Most potential commuters would have to drive several miles to reach them. There isn't even regular bus service. This is like upgrading a horse path to a highway, in terms of the usual order of transportation. Financially, it's a boondoggle at best. More likely chicanery from elected officials with financial interests in nearby land.
Ren Farley
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 1:15 a.m.
Are there areas in or near the current Ann Arbor Rail line who would likely ship by rail if Watco provides improved freight service? Will a very well managed Ann Arbor Railroad ship much more fracking sand from Lake Michigan shores to a rail interchange in Toledo? Will Fingerle and other Ann Arbor firms use rail more frequently if there is new management?
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:42 p.m.
I doubt any businesses in AA will use more rail than they currently do. Fingerle, and most lumber yards went away from rail delivery because the industry shifted to warehouses. These warehouses get rail deliveries of lumber and then send truckloads of material to lumberyards. There used to be a bunch of rail customers in Ann Arbor, however by the time the current ownership of the AA (Ann Arbor Acquisition Corp) took over, they were down to a couple customers. IIRC only 3 businesses even have spurs left. One is Fingerle, which I have discussed. A second is a Forest products distributor (Burke Forest Products) who rarely got service anyway. The third was a building just south of I-94 which now serves as a property owned and operated by UofM. The only other customer I recall in AA was a team track off Plymouth Road. That was removed when Plymouth Road was expanded 15-20 plus years ago. There is little potential freight traffic in AA. The only exception might be if WATCO wants to create a transload type facility off state street (easy highway access), but that would require a lot of investment, and normally places like that don't work on shortlines when Class 1 railroads run nearby.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 12:44 a.m.
"They've never been easy to work with", Mayor Hieftje said about Ann Arbor Railroad. I wonder how many developers, contractors, and citizens have said that exact same thing about the City of Ann Arbor being difficult when they want to start a project? Turnabout is only fair play.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 3:05 p.m.
bam... excellent point.
Peter Eckstein
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 12:10 a.m.
As someone who used to commute the other way on US23--away from AA in the morning, toward it in the evening--I often observed the awful traffic jams created by those living in Livingston County and working in AA. The math on WALLY, however, is a bit daunting. If operating costs would be 6.3 million to accomodate 1.3 thousand riders, that would come to roughly 4.8 thousand dollars per rider per year. If each rider took 480 one-way trips (10 a week over 48 weeks) the operating cost would be $10 a ride. If the capital costs were in the middle of the estimates--say $ 26 million--and that were amortized over 20 years--that would amount to another 1.3 million dollars, or a thousand dollars per rider, or more than $2 more per ride, for a total of $12 per ride. That's $24 a day for a round-trip commute, which may be a lot more than many of those 1300 commuters would be willing to pay. My friend "Bob" suggests an alternative--using buses with wheels designed to travel on RR tracks. He thinks they already exist. If the same wheels could be used to travel on city streets, it would raise the possibility of track travel to the first stop in AA with delivery to a few designated other stops around the city. Bob will have to speak for himself, but it is an idea that may be worth looking into. There would be no need to hire full-time drivers, since a resident of Howell might drive a bus into town, go to work at a regular job, and then drive the bus back. I would imagine that upgrading the tracks for this purpose would cost a lot less than 19to 35 million dollars.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 3:04 p.m.
"I often observed the awful traffic jams created by those living in Livingston County and working in AA." Its not accurate to assume all those people are headed to Ann Arbor. Or that their trip starts in Livingston County. I know folks personally who come down that way every day on their way to jobs in Westland and Canton and Wayne. There are are others who go to other places. Even some (many?) of those who are headed to Ann Arbor might balk at a train ride if they had to add a 20-30 minute bus ride on at the end.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 12:27 a.m.
"Bob" is a genius!
David Cahill
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:56 p.m.
Good riddance to the Ann Arbor Railroad! WALLY is plainly a non-starter. But we may look forward to progress on the Allen Creek Greenway.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:25 p.m.
Notice the lack of any stop in Ypsilanti. I guess they don't want them riding the rails. Instead, it stops at the highly populated Whitmore Lake and Hamburg. Readers should take a peak at the City's capital budget. I was shocked to see how much of our taxpayer money the City has already spent on this pie in the sky. And they plan to continue spending millions on it despite community concerrn over its cost and necessity.
Tue, Jan 15, 2013 : 1:41 a.m.
Thanks for the correction!
Ryan J. Stanton
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:43 p.m.
Phil is right. There's a train station/stop proposed in Ypsilanti as part of the separate Ann Arbor-to-Detroit commuter rail initiative.
Phil K.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:41 p.m.
As I said above; Wrong line. The AARR runs (essentially) North South. There is a flyover at Huron River drive, the line runs south through the city past the Stadium, and crosses under I-94, and over the grade crossing at Ellsworth road. East-West commuter rail is being investigated as part of SEMCOG. Complaining that WALLY isn't stopping in Ypsi is like complaining that you can't take I-94 to the Mackinaw Bridge.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:18 p.m.
John Hieftje , traffic expert.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 3:27 p.m.
I think Mayor Johnny never got that train set under the Christmas tree when he was a lad.
Ryan J. Stanton
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:09 p.m.
Here's a link to the full MDOT feasibility study for US-23 (M-14 to I-96): http://www.annarbor.com/MDOT_US-23_Feasibility_Study.pdf As I understand it, MDOT conducted the study in 2006-07 and published the results in November 2009. It looks at a wide range of options, including a widening (addition of lanes) of US-23 from Ann Arbor to Howell. From the report: "Total Long-Term Improvement Costs – US-23 Corridor from M-14 to I-96: $413 million." The study also talks about WALLY, exclusive bus lanes, etc. From the report: "WALLY, the Washtenaw and Livingston Line, is a 27-mile commuter rail service proposed between Howell and Ann Arbor. According to the WALLY Validation Study prepared by RL Banks and Associates in June 2006, the commuter rail service is feasible. Estimated capital costs are $32.4 million for 60 mph service with operating costs estimated at $6.3 million per year. The study estimates potential ridership to be approximately 1,300 travelers excluding ridership for special events." Some of those cost estimates have been updated since. The latest working numbers, which I got from the AATA, are included in this story. Here's an older presentation on WALLY that was passed along to me this week by Vivienne Armentrout (thanks again, Vivienne): http://www.annarbor.com/WALLY_Roadshow.pdf
Craig Lounsbury
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:01 p.m.
"WALLY is so much better than new lanes on US-23. What would more lanes do?" help people on south bound US 23 headed to Ypsi, M14 east, I-94 east and west, Detroit, Toledo, Jackson, Livonia, Novi, Farmington, Metro Airport, downriver, I could go on. The notion that all traffic on 23 is destine for Ann Arbor is myopic.
Macabre Sunset
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:59 a.m.
I'll pay for the US-23 expansion when I get a refund for all the roads I've helped pay for and will never use. Or I'll pay my taxes and hope that money for infrastructure improvement is eventually used where it's most needed. Not on some boondoggle that only a handful of people will use regularly.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 1:53 a.m.
since I can get a whole lot more places by road than train, John Q I suggest the people who want to take a train with very limited range should pay for their convenience.
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 12:11 a.m.
Then let those drivers pay for that convenience.
Ann English
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 12:06 a.m.
I was thinking, more lanes on northbound US-23 could help people headed to I-96 east, Farmington, Milford, Union Lake, Commerce Township.
Tom Whitaker
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:56 p.m.
According to the 2006 MDOT feasibility study for the Ann Arbor/Brighton segment of US 23 (link below), the current daily traffic count is between 65,000 and 71,000 vehicles, with that projected to increase to between 77,000 and 85,000 by 2030. Even if each and every one of the estimated 1300 riders on WALLY represented one single-occupancy-vehicle taken off US 23, WALLY would have little effect on traffic congestion. It would take at least 10 times that many vehicles removed from the road to have any noticeable impact. And even if that were to happen, US 23 would still need major improvements just to bring it up to current standards to safely handle what is already a higher-than-design-capacity load. As much as I'd like to believe that commuter rail could replace or even reduce the need for highways, the reality is that rail would, at best, be a supplement. At worst, it would simply provide an incentive for more growth and development that would only require more commuter infrastructure, and around the vicious traffic circle we all go. Like it or not, US 23 will need widening and other major improvements regardless of WALLY, although the Great Recession may have put off the inevitable a little longer. Proponents of WALLY should focus on other arguments and not try to mislead people into thinking that $32 million spent on WALLY will save $500 million spent on widening/improving US 23. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_US-23_Feasibility_Study_PART_1_302284_7.pdf
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:23 p.m.
Tom - You ignore the fact that US-23 is only one part of the total commute. Those gas taxes and vehicle registration fees have to cover the cost of that entire system, not only the US-23 portion. Spread that money across the entire system and it doesn't come close to covering the costs. If it did, US-23 would have been widened decades ago.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:33 p.m.
There are some funny things in the comments. Buses on rails. There used to be a very similar thing called RDC cars that ran these lines in the past. They were single powered cars that would run on the AARR. They used to be common on lighter density railroad lines. We aren't talking new ideas here. We are recycling ideas that were used 100 years ago. Next someone will talk about building a separate railroad line with electrical power connecting these cities (they were called interurbans and closed by the late 1920's).
Tom Whitaker
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:35 a.m.
State and Federal gas taxes in Michigan total about $.60 per gallon. Assuming about 1 gallon of gas consumed for each Ann Arbor/Brighton trip, that's roughly $15,000,000 in taxes paid by these motorists every year. Registration on these vehicles raises at least another $10,000,000 per year. All that revenue is put into road building projects as well as many other transportation initiatives, including mass transit, so it would appear that these drivers are indeed contributing substantially already. I want to be a believer in commuter rail. I really do. But so far I've not heard any argument, statistic, or analysis to convince me it'll ever be a realistic option for Ann Arbor--at least not in my lifetime. Proponents need to work a lot harder at making alternative commuting options feasible--perhaps with new technologies that don't cost a mint. (I like Peter Eckstein's 'buses on rails' comment below, for example.) Even just using double-decker buses (like the Megabus) on the existing roads to transport UM employees in from the boonies would be a good start. This could be funded by UM at far less cost than buying up houses, tearing them down, and building multi-million dollar parking structures. Employees could chip in for this instead of paying for gas and parking permits.
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 12:10 a.m.
Make the drivers using US-23 pay the total cost for improvements. If you want to commute from Livingston County and don't want to sit in traffic, pay the cost for to widen the freeway. Otherwise, deal with it.
Macabre Sunset
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:18 p.m.
Let's not forget that the 1,300 is a guess based on a greatly increased transit time because certain improvements can't be made to the track. This is a boondoggle of a criminally irresponsible magnitude.
Craig Lounsbury
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:03 p.m.
Nicely stated Mr Whitaker.
Dog Guy
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:52 p.m.
Railbikes (bicycles which ride on one rail guided by an outrigger flanged wheel on the other rail) can be made for under thirty bucks from an existing bike. They tip off easily in a second when stopped and are high-speed fun on level steel rails of large radius turns. What joy it would bring to Ann Arbor's Great Leader to see large numbers of railbike commuters on"this railroad that runs right through our city."
Macabre Sunset
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:20 p.m.
Enough with the WALLY boondoggle. $1 million per passenger is too much for the economy to bear.
Macabre Sunset
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:16 p.m.
Ryan, please don't take the pablum from Hieftje and his clownlike friends. The cost estimates are based on the research done when this project was first proposed. The cost must factor in: A) Ridership will be much less than the 1,300 daily rides promised because track improvements deemed necessary to encourage rides will not be made. B) Costs related to the stations in the rural parts of Livingston County are admittedly not the "responsibility" of the project itself. This is thrown on the Livingston Road Commission. C) Costs related to getting people from wherever this thing ends up in Ann Arbor to their jobs are ignored. If this doesn't end up in a central location, ridership will decline even more. This is not even close to self-sustaining project. $100 million to transport 100 people a day is not viable. I sincerely believe that the people still touting WALLY should either be removed from office as being incompetent, or jailed for criminal activity.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:56 p.m.
If Candy Colored Clowns make up the ridership, as many consultants predict, then pennies from heaven will be the order of the day.
Ryan J. Stanton
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:34 p.m.
From an operating cost standpoint, it's been estimated the cost per trip would be $6.31. In terms of capital investment, it's been estimated the cost per trip spread out over 20 years would be $2.09.
Craig Lounsbury
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 9:58 p.m.
" Hieftje said.... we're going to have to figure out ways to get people here without their cars," How many folks who work in Ann Arbor live near enough to a train station that it would be a viable alternative to driving the 20-40 minute commute? The truth is Hieftje has no clue and he doesn't care. I wonder how many times a week he watches "Field of Dreams"?
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:38 p.m.
1300/day my butt. The boondoggle advocate "consultants" are telling Heaveho what he wants to hear, so cut that number by 50 or 60%, and you might have a more accurate estimate. Widen 23 and be done with this enviro-fascist fantasy.
Craig Lounsbury
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:05 a.m.
Ryan, here is a link to the "about us" page for " RL Banks and Associates". http://www.rlbadc.com/about-us.shtml I would seriously question the objectivity of any of their studies. They are clearly huge advocates of rail roads. Nothing wrong with that except when Government uses their studies as a basis for spending tax money. Its a classic case of conflict of interest or fox guarding chicken coop, take your pick. They are huge train advocates telling us how many people will ride a hypothetical train. Can't you see the questionable objectivity?
Ryan J. Stanton
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:30 p.m.
The WALLY validation study prepared by RL Banks and Associates in June 2006 included the 1,300 estimate. It's the same number that's used by AATA officials today.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:59 p.m.
Nice Craig!
Craig Lounsbury
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:52 p.m.
Ryan there is no source for the number in the story . My estimate is 12. another estimate I've seen is 1,000,000
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:43 p.m.
My estimate puts it at 1,000,000. That is a lot.
Ryan J. Stanton
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 10:24 p.m.
From the story: It's estimated about 1,300 riders each way per day would use a commuter rail service between Ann Arbor and Howell.
Thomas Cook
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 9:38 p.m.
Looks to me like they've been working on grade crossings. :) http://youtu.be/goU30s3qU4Y . Every time I hear a city official talk about the Greenway there is no acknowledgement that someone else owns that land and is using it for the purpose it was intended, it seems like they just want the Annie to go away. Nothing is more eco-friendly than steel wheels, may freight train traffic increase 500% thru Ann Arbor (except when I have to take the #1 downtown).
mike gatti
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 9:36 p.m.
As long as there is talk of a green way then everything is coming up roses.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 9:14 p.m.
We like cars! Railroad commuting takes away our freedom to travel. Just widen 23 to three lanes.
Rod Johnson
Sat, Jan 5, 2013 : 4:26 a.m.
There's no "just" about it. Every bridge on 23 north to Flint would need to be reconstructed. It's a huge project.
Macabre Sunset
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:58 p.m.
Unfortunately, while you're right that smarter driving would lessen the need for more lanes, no one in the history of driving, going back to the days when people rode horses in front of the Hieftje Saloon, has managed to convince drivers to learn common courtesy.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:53 p.m.
You don't need a third lane. Someone just needs to educate drivers, to only use the left lane to pass, and not use it as their personal road, while texting, talking on the phone, or reading. By means of educate, I mean an impeding traffic ticket would be nice.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:57 p.m.
I really don't see 23 ever being widen. Nor do I see 94 from 23 to State being widen either. They keep saying they will but they don't. Rail is the best way to go. I like what I see. We did a rail to California. Very fun indeed.
Macabre Sunset
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:25 p.m.
I have no interest in paying for the roads that link your neighborhood to the surrounding neighborhoods. I have no interest in paying for your children's schools or your medical bills (if you're on Medicaid or Medicare). US23 is a vital corridor for tens of thousands of taxpayers. Pretty much every other highway in the country carrying this much traffic has three or more lanes (and none this size or smaller has trains). It's a necessary infrastructure improvement. Only the simplest of minds could imagine that a boondoggle like WALLY could address this.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 9:47 p.m.
Hope you have $500 million. I have no interest in paying for it.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 9:13 p.m.
A dual-purpose carraigeway transporting both commuters and, say, Ford Motor Co. parts destined for Wayne Assembly. The commuter spends $50 a month and can't be late for work, but Ford spends $5 million a month and the assembly line at Wayne will screech to a halt if the train is delayed. Guess who waits?
Phil K.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:36 p.m.
Wayne assembly is on a different line. AARR runs (essentially) north south. The AARR line crosses over the Amtrak / NS owned line near the Amtrak station.
Top Cat
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 8:53 p.m.
Watco is a profitable and successful company. They bought AARR to run more freight service on it. It won't take long for them to shut down the City leaders' money losing passenger rail pipe dream.
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:20 p.m.
The traffic going north is to serve customers on the GLC. Watco isn't going to develop customer traffic on the GLC.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 2:27 p.m.
John Q, There already is some traffic that does move north to the GLC. The AARR is a bridge line sending some traffic from NS in Toledo to the GLC. There is also a small amount of traffic going from the HESR (via GLC and AARR to the IORY near Dundee). With that said, most traffic that flows through AA is traffic coming from the GLC southbound to the AARR to be interchanged in Toledo. There simply isn't a lot of rail traffic moving NB into central and northern areas of Michigan. Top Cat, Watco does have a history of being receptive to passenger rail. Several of their other lines do host passenger rail service. The AARR isn't the big issue here. They only need to agree to service over a few miles of their lightest density operated line. The GLC which is what most of the WALLY will run on is already on board.
John Q
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 12:05 a.m.
Any traffic on the line will go south to Toledo. There's no reason for Watco to move traffic north to the GLC.
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 8:18 p.m.
IF they can put some gates up at the Ellsworth crossing, I'll have some respect for them.
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 3:59 a.m.
The railroads work in conjuction with Mdot to decide which crossings get gates based on traffic volume, train frequency, and train speed. In the end Mdot has the final say as they are partially funding of crossing infastructure upgrades.
Ann English
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:50 p.m.
From what I've seen regarding the Norfolk-Southern railroad line over the years, gates are the last thing put up; first, signs; second, lights and bells; third, gates. Back in the seventies, only the Zeeb Road-Penn Central (today's Norfolk Southern) had gates. Much of the AARR today has only signs, and driver education textbooks tell students about these crossings, implying, "Don't expect EVERY railroad crossing to have lights, bells and gates." If there's no bell to hear, there IS a train whistle to hear. I've heard the whistle sound (long, long, short, long which means APPROACHING A ROAD CROSSING) over Ellsworth Road from State Circle.
Macabre Sunset
Wed, Jan 2, 2013 : 11:29 p.m.
Is there no flashing light there? I'm confused as to why a sentient driver needs gates.


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Marcus Whitfield learned the day after the FIU game that he was awarded the game ball – on the defensive side – for his five tackles and 1 ½ sacks.
But the Maryland linebacker said he was told by the school that he couldn't have the football, at least not now.
"We can't get the game ball until after we leave school because it's against NCAA regulations. We have the game ball but it's in the archives," Whitfield said. "That was crazy when I heard that (about game balls) when Coach (Randy) Edsall first got here," said Whitfield, a fifth-year senior.
The NCAA told the Baltimore Sun that the school would not be in violation of extra benefit rules by awarding a player a football. "The answer is yes. A student-athlete can keep a game ball," NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn said in an email response.
Asked about the apparent discrepancy, Maryland said it was trying to watch out for the players' best interests.
The NCAA places monetary limits on gifts that athletes can receive. Schools may give awards worth up to $225 a year for underclassmen. The limit is $425 for seniors. There are higher limits for the gift bags that teams typically receive when they play in bowl games.
Maryland's thinking is that it doesn't want to exhaust the limit on footballs and risk depriving players of other gifts later on.
Maryland and other schools typically give keepsakes to departing seniors. In the past, seniors have received framed jerseys with a value that would count against the annual limits.
Each school makes its own determination on whether it wants to provide game balls or withhold them.
"It's always good to have one," Whitfield said. But he said he doesn't mind waiting for his football.
Other Terps notes:
**Edsall said Whitfield has matured since the coach's arrival before the 2011 season. Whitfield played in all 12 games last season, starting two.
"I was very pleased for Marcus (Saturday) because Marcus was, when I first got here, he was kind of a little shy guy, didn't talk a whole a lot," the coach said. "But now you just see this kid that's emerging into a young man and has developed a lot more confidence in himself and he handles himself with a lot more confidence. I think the other thing that's helped Marcus is he's being pushed by Yannick Cudjoe-Virgil."
Whitfield became a father nearly four years ago.
His son, Jeremiah, recently began a Head Start program.
"He comes to all the games and I see him on the weekends, especially on the weekend after the games," Whitfield said. He loves my roommates (Tyler Cierski, Cole Farrand and Stephen Grommer). He loves everybody on the team, though some of them might scare him."
**Maryland is preparing this week for Old Dominion quarterback Taylor Heinicke, who won the 2012 Walter Payton Award as the top offensive player in the Football Championship Subdivision.
"They throw the ball around, all over the place," Edsall said. "It spreads out. Its four wides and they work to try to get the receivers in space and get them the ball. And the quarterback is very athletic. He is very elusive. He can extend plays."
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Panchayats & Rural Development Department of the Government of West Bengal
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Equinox p2 Repository Mirroring
p2 manages all of its data in repositories. There are two types of repos, artifact and metadata.
p2 artifact repositories can hold many different forms of the same artifact. For example, a JAR artifact may exist as
- a canonical (unmolested) JAR
- a compressed JAR (assuming the original was not compressed)
- a pack200 JAR
- a delta relative to another version of the artifact
- ...
p2 metadata repositories describe inter-component dependencies and identify artifacts to install.
The Repository Mirroring application can be used to mirror artifact and metadata repositories. In addition, users can do selective mirroring of artifacts or metadata either to create a more specific mirror (e.g. only mirror latest code) or merge content into an existing mirror.
This example demonstrates how to mirror a repository using the repository mirror application available in the equinox p2 tools.
Getting the Mirroring Tools
The mirroring application is in the org.eclipse.equinox.p2.tools bundle, available in CVS at http://dev.eclipse.org/cvsroot/eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox/p2/bundles/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.tools. The plan is to add this application to the Equinox p2 agent download available on the Equinox download page. See bug 237100 for progress on adding the mirror application to the p2 agent download.
Running the Mirroring Tools
Run from the command line by running the Agent with the args below (e.g. eclipse.exe -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.tools.MirrorApplication -source ...).
For example, to make an exact mirror of a metadata and artifact repositories, use the following arguements. Note that if the target repository does not exist, a new repository is created.
-application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.tools.MirrorApplication -source Insert Source URL (e.g. http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.4milestones/) -destination Insert Destination URL (e.g. file:/tmp/3.4milestonesMirror/) -ius all -artifacts all
If you want to mirror only the metadata then remove the line: -artifacts all
If only the artifacts are desired then remove the line: -ius all
For a compressed destination repository, add the line: -compressed
and the resulting destination artifact or content xml will be in compressed jar format.
To enable the verbose feature, add the line: -verbose
The mirror app is set to append artifacts by default.
To delete the destination repository before writing, add the line: -overwrite
Selective Mirroring
If only a piece of the source repository should be mirrored, then you can specify the individual components as arguments. For ius the format is
-ius IU,IU2/Version,IU3/[VersionRange]
For example,
-ius org.eclipse.sdk.examples.source,org.eclipse.ui.examples.undo.source/3.2.100,org.eclipse.jdt.ui.examples.projects.source /[3.1.0,3.2.0]
If all associated artifacts should be mirrored with the metadata, add the line -artifacts all and each mirrored metadata will also mirror the artifact with it.
For mirroring simple artifact repository selections, the format is
-artifacts {classifier,iu,version},{classifier,iu,version}
For example,
-artifacts {osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.swt.examples.browser,3.1.100.v3320c},{osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.sdk.examples.source,3.1.100.v20070605}