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Right on! Was just driving Oakland to Sacramento last week and lamenting the fact there isn’t a semi-high speed train tracking the freeways all the way out ther
by stellar678 7y ago
Right on! Was just driving Oakland to Sacramento last week and lamenting the fact there isn’t a semi-high speed train tracking the freeways all the way out there. So much of our exurban sprawl puts people on 2 hour commutes along that route, seems like a perfect candidate for an incremental rail system.
- AlotOfReading 7y agoThere's already the ACE commuter train running Stockton to Santa Clara / SJ, but the hours are terrible.
- mateo411 7y agoIt does seem like a good idea. Happily, this already exists. https://www.capitolcorridor.org https://www.capitolcorridor.org
- stellar678 7y agoYeah, Capitol Corridor is great! I wonder what it would take to convert a bunch of those folks who jam up 80 and 680 every day into riders ... I suppose it’s more complicated than just moving the right-of-way and stations into the more populated areas.
- hapless 7y agoWell, why didn’t you ride it? The central problem in traffic congestion is all those other drivers ;)
- stellar678 7y agoOff peak travel time, and my destination was waaaay past Sacramento. For journeys like that, a two lane highway would be totally adequate. But the massive crush of traffic at commute time is another story... The observation was really about freeways being built on valuable land taken under eminent domain by the state while passenger rail is mostly relegated to being a second class citizen on freight routes laid out 150 years ago.
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