I mean, did anyone seriously ever confuse BART with Bart Simpson? Or ROW with row? Come on now. On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 1:53 AM Scott Christopher <sc@ottie.org> wrote:
No :)
BART is Bay Area Rapid Transit, a public transportation system with its own bureaucracy and publicly elected board.
Caltrans is a separate State bureaucracy, though it has a big office in the city of Oakland near BART Headquarters.
And then there is Caltrain which is the commuter rail that runs down the peninsula. That organization has its own bureaucracy and board, too.
Lesson to be learned: don't use obscure acronyms unknown outside a small geographical region :)
Owen DeLong wrote:
You’ll have more luck finding California Dept. of Transportation if you call them “CalTrans” which is what they call themselves.
Owen
On Jan 18, 2019, at 17:27 , Ben Cannon <ben@6by7.net> wrote:
HAH. Apologies for copying the list. But I think we all needed a good Friday laugh.
Making it relevant again, also looking for a good contact within CALDOT (California Dept of Transportation) and the joint bridge authority for the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
Have a good weekend all :)
-Ben Cannon
On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:25 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:18 PM Ben Cannon <ben@6by7.net> wrote:
I’m speaking of the san francisco based Bay Area Rapid Transit department about Rights Of Way for fiber…
Now you've said enough that if the person you're looking for is here he'll have some idea you mean him.
What are you talking about?
Inappropriate abbreviation. I mean sure, why not a NANOG Friday Fight Club, but why would you want to get in a ROW (noisy argument) with BART Simpson?
Regards, Bill Herrin
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