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You want to draw a high-speed train line into SF proper? You'd be looking at clearing tens of miles of housing or digging a comparable amount of tunnel, which w
by johan_larson 11y ago
You want to draw a high-speed train line into SF proper? You'd be looking at clearing tens of miles of housing or digging a comparable amount of tunnel, which would be either politically difficult or $EXPENSIVE.
What's your plan?
- x0x0 11y agoWell, ignoring the fact that it's being done, my plan would be to serve the bulk of the population (that would be not in Millbrae), for two reasons in particular: 1 - they're going to pay for it, 2 - political support of the aforementioned populace.
- jpatokal 11y agoThey are building the HSR into SF proper, and they're doing the obvious thing: using the existing Caltrain alignment from Millbrae into the city, terminating at the Transbay Transit Center (already under construction and build with this in mind). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/California_topographical_map_of_proposed_HSR_route_%282014%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/California_to...
- ghaff 11y agoWhich is also the sensible thing--leaving aside other pro/con HSR arguments in general. It also doesn't seem to be what the article is arguing for. That said, you start having lots of connections and the value of transit systems goes down. I was just looking last night and I'm told that the time to get from SFO to the Santa Clara Convention Center/Great America/Stadium is still about 2 hours which, while theoretically doable, isn't something I'm going to do.