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>...Moving people from Nowhere to... >Bakersfield's population is around 380,000,[10] making it the 9th-most populous city in California and the 52nd-most popu

by serf 7y ago

>...Moving people from Nowhere to... >Bakersfield's population is around 380,000,[10] making it the 9th-most populous city in California and the 52nd-most populous city in the nation.[0] Gee, I wonder why some folks have the idea that SV/SF/Software people are disconnected from the rest of the world. I don't want to have a reason to go to Bakersfield, but maybe it's a bit aloof to pretend like it's some tiny outpost in the middle of nowhere; it's a CA freeway hub that's connected to the entire rest of the state by a slew of highway arteries that facilitate easy travel from SoCal/NorCal/Central. It's literally the intersection of 5 or 6 highways from all over the state. It's perfectly reasonable to have a mass transit hub there; it leads to anywhere you want to go in California via highway. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield,_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield,_California

jeffdavis 7y ago
Are you predicting that people will actually ride this train in any significant numbers and create real economic activity? If not, it's a distinction without a difference. I grew up in the central valley. Nice place in many ways, but all that matters for this discussion is whether that route is useful. And I highly doubt it is. A lot of the traffic on that route is trucking, which isn't helped by high-speed rail. You say it's connected by highways, but if you are riding the train you don't have a car. A bus? Kind of makes the train speed irrelevant if you are trying out a bus route from Bakersfield to somewhere else. Not seeing the user story for this project.