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this project will never be complete; they will finish the central valley and stop there. There is no way to get a high speed train all the way to SF on the sa
by dekhn 3y ago
this project will never be complete; they will finish the central valley and stop there. There is no way to get a high speed train all the way to SF on the same two tracks that caltrain uses, even after electrification. It will be a miracle if they get to Diridon.
- mc32 3y agoMore likely Tamien, then it slows to commuter speed the rest of the way.
- Hobadee 3y agoI take it you haven't been from Tamien to Gilroy. Those tracks are worse than everything else from SJ-SF. (HSR would likely cut over somewhere around Gilroy, so taking those tracks up would make sense, but they would all need to be redone.)
- hedora 3y agoCrazy idea: We could have a train corridor from Sacramento to Oakland, then San Jose and Los Angeles, then run a ferry between SF and Oakland. Oh wait, we had exactly that, and then ripped it out / prioritized freight on it. I don’t see why they don’t just imminent-domain the tracks, and straighten them so the existing amtrak trains could run at their top speed on them (125mph vs today’s 60mph if I remember right). They could even run frequent commuter trains within cities at rush hour. Later, they could upgrade the trains and tracks, until it’s ratcheted up to modern speeds (> 200 mph) in remote areas.