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Because there is literally no train service between SF and LA—you have to go out of your way to transfer. The train stations are far outside of the city where y
by garmaine 7y ago
Because there is literally no train service between SF and LA—you have to go out of your way to transfer. The train stations are far outside of the city where you want to be. And our trains are SLOW. Less than 100km/h. It takes 8+ hours on a train.
- bdauvergne 7y agoThere is a lot of way to accelerate an existing line: pendulation, remove curves, add more railways along the existing line, remove stops, on a straight railway any train can go at more than 200km/h. As for the transfer, underground/raised metro lines from the centre to the railway station in the suburbs ? Most of the new TGV station are now done outside city centre in France (for the same reason than here, surface is expensive near city centre).
- garmaine 7y agoInfrastructure projects in America are fucked for a variety of reasons that other posters in this thread discuss. Basically each of those options end up being super expensive, subject to unending legal challenges, and exist in a regulatory environment that does NOT support changing the status quo.