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Southern Pacific back in the early 1990's was looking to abandon the railroad. San Mateo County bought the right of way and formed a 3 county partnership. Unf
by pm24601 11y ago
Southern Pacific back in the early 1990's was looking to abandon the railroad.
San Mateo County bought the right of way and formed a 3 county partnership.
Unfortunately, there is no dedicated funding source for Caltrain. So it is entirely at the mercy of the fortunes of Santa Clara VTA, San Francisco Muni and Samtrans. Each one of those agencies have as their first priority local service busses, light rail, and BART.
Caltrain gets the scraps (especially from VTA ) which rather spend Billions on BART instead of a penny on Caltrain.
- WalterBright 11y agoIn Seattle, the old rail lines through the city are converted to bike trails, or simply left to the weeds. Light rail is done by blasting a new corridor through the city at incredible expense, often paralleling the weedy old tracks.
- politician 11y agoAny ideas why they don't replace the existing tracks? The parallel tracks make sense: it seems rational to reuse the existing rights-of-way.
- WalterBright 11y agoI bring it up now and then, and no explanation is ever forthcoming.