The Transportation Expansion Project or T-REX was a $1.67 billion venture that had a goal of transforming the way people in the metro Denver area commute within the areas of Interstates 25 and 225, then the country's 14th busiest intersection. The T-REX effort widened major interstates to as much as 7 wide in each direction and added of double-track light rail throughout the metropolitan area (40 miles total). It's considered by some to be one of the most successful transportation upgrade projects in the United States.
T-REX team is 2004 award recipient,http://findarticles.com/p/articles...
> Residents in the northwest corridor have for some time cried foul as they've watched commuter rail between Denver and Boulder stall as FasTracks light rail lines in other parts of the metro area fall into place and even reach completion.
Looks like another billion bucks to get here.
Good luck coming up with it.
Finished in 2042.
Long after I’m dead.
So fuck them all. Thieves and Indian-givers.
We voted for the tax because we were going to get it within our lifetimes, like within the twenty-teens.
Now we aren’t.
Just evil.
And we don’t get the money back of course.
I want a train to Denver, and a train from there to the airport.
The elected RTD Board of Directors decided to add more busses for us instead.
That isn’t why we voted for the tax. We wanted light rail like the rest of the district got.
Instead we get shitty busses.
And a 30-year plan for proper rail.
Then there was when the City of Broomfield voted for us in Boulder to pay a stupid stadium tax in the same election as they voted themselves out of the county and taxing district.
You should really tie down the contractor with a contract. Unless the company says "we can't do it for that money" and the councillor that really wants the project on her name agrees to give them money without a proper contract...
> 1 a A bag; a small sack: applied to a bag of any material or description, but usually smaller than a sack. Now dial. exc. in to buy a pig in a poke (pig sb.[entry#1]), in Sc. a cat in a poke, F. chat en poche. In Sc. applied to the bags or wallets in which a gaberlunzie or beggar carried provisions and portable property.
Shows what I don’t know. Oh, it says it’s now dialectic except for that idiom.
> [ME. poket, a. Anglo-Norman pokete (13th c. Godef.), mod.Norman dial. pouquette, dim. of ONF. poke, poque, pouque = F. poche, whence dim. pochette: see poke n.1, pouch n. OF. had also a masc. form pochet, pouchet (1396 in Godef.), still dial., also in mod.Norman dial. pouquet.]
Whatever the hell. In any event, I just learned that Amazon is working on an aieral based delivery system that will enable its users to receive packages in a matter of minutes.
I don't quite get people who pay a certified translator, then take his translation and ask random blokes off the Internet if it's any good. (That no context or source-language material is provided is just icing on the cake.)
Not saying that certified translators are any good, but rather that why not just ask random blokes off the Internet right away and save your money.
When I asked my friend, "would you like to come to the party tomorrow?" he answered, "thanks, but I am not around" does it mean he is not in the NYC or just not around the hood??
"Not around" means "dead". His friend plans to kill himself, and in fact I am leaving a comment to that extent.
We desperately need the close reason "I don't want to ask the only person who actually knows, gimme unqualified opinions of random people off the Internet instead".
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Did you know that every second word in Russian is a euphemism for "drink all things now"? The rest being euphemisms for "your", "mother", or some combination thereof.
"Can you tell me when you have finished?" or "Can you tell me when you will have finished?" Which is correct?
Both are! But they mean different things: the first means something like "Make sure you tell me as soon as you have finished.", whereas the second means "Can you tell me what time you ex...
But either they have to stop eating so much, or I need to start eating a great deal more, or the lapspace is going to come at a premium sooner than later, and then what shall I do?
Chinook winds , often called chinooks, commonly refers to foehn winds in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America.
Chinook is claimed by popular folk-etymology to mean "eater", but it is really the name of the people in the region where the usage was first derived. The reference to a wind or weather system, simply "a Chinook", originally meant a warming wind from the ocean into the interior ...
That's one cause of weird temperatures on the east of the Rockies
> The greatest recorded temperature change in 24 hours was caused by Chinook winds on January 15, 1972, in Loma, Montana; the temperature rose from -48 to 9°C
> Nederlandse scholieren zijn de afgelopen drie jaar slechter gaan presteren op het gebied van wiskunde. Omdat de resultaten in andere landen harder achteruit gaan, stijgt Nederland op de ranglijst.
This is sad. "Dutch students are now worse at mathematics than three years ago. Because results are deteriorating faster in other countries, the Netherlands are now higher in international rankings."
> Shanghai-China, and Singapore were top in maths, with students in Shanghai scoring the equivalent of nearly three years of schooling above most OECD countries. Hong Kong-China, Chinese Taipei, Korea, Macao-China, Japan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the Netherlands were also in the group of top-performing countries.
"Chinese Taipei"?
Is that because Taiwain considers itself the true China? Or because China considers the island part of China?