Re: how are the bredas doing

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From: Silas Warner
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:40

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berli@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> >     (Dunno about SF -- Muni seems intent on killing off the streetcar
> >     lines, so barring a board-level replacement there's nothing that can
> >     be done about the umpteen-million dollar Breda order there.)
> >
> 
> Yes, but the subject provisions mean that any rail car bought by US
> properties has to be 60% domestic content and assembly. This has the effect
> of denying cheap, reliable, and *nice* cars to the American transit-riding
> public. From Boeing to Breda, the "Buy America" things does not work!
> 
> (Except in a few cases like Talgo (ic trains) and Siemens (lrv's)).
> 
Skoda, using a subsidiary called Electric Transit, iss biulding an
assembly plant on a San Francisco pier.  Right now it's building
trolleybuses, both shorties and artics, but it could build
streetcars for the Third Street line.  One catch: any streetcar 
that runs through the Market Street tunnel has to match the
dimensions of the old Boeings to a ridiculous degree. So only
custom-design cars can be run on most lines in this city.

                                         Silas Warner

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