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This is one rail line that would connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two most populous regions in the most populous state in the US. The fact that the en
by estebank 8y ago
This is one rail line that would connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two most populous regions in the most populous state in the US. The fact that the entire country is sparsely populated does not affect the feasibility or utility of this project in particular.
- Gibbon1 8y agoA thing that becomes obvious when looking at the actual work being done is a lot of the central valley work is grade separation. The work is grade separating both the future high speed rail lines and existing freight rail lines. The whole project is filled with things like that. Work that already needs to be done irrespective of the HSR part. With that consideration the SF to LA feature is really about a 1/3 the total price tag. I remember one time someone made the too spread out argument. I went and tried to do an estimate for a HSR line from Chicago to Denver. Via Kansans City and St louis. About 1000 miles. Probably cost between 25-50 billion. Maybe less since for most of it the only things in the way are corn fields and cows. Which seems like a lot of money, but then compare with the $2T spent on the 'war on terror' since 2001. See: http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/programs/construction/road_closure/2018_December_Construction_Update.pdf http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/programs/construction/road_closur...
- masonic 8y agothe two most populous regions Silicon Valley (even San Jose proper) is more populous than SF. And San Diego is more populous than either.