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In European terms, this is like moving King's Cross to Stevenage. Or moving Gare de Lyon to Paris Disneyland. The only difference is that both Stevenage and Par
by delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
In European terms, this is like moving King's Cross to Stevenage. Or moving Gare de Lyon to Paris Disneyland. The only difference is that both Stevenage and Paris Disneyland are already well-connected to rail: Stevenage is on the East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh and LNER stops there anyway, and Paris Disneyland is a TGV stop.
Why America is allergic to having a big central railway station in the middle of a city, I will never understand.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoLA has a big central railway station in the middle of the city. Brightline isn't initially going to connect to it because reasons. What reasons? They're building new right-of-way from Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas; doing that from Rancho Cucamonga to downtown LA is much harder, because there's all this city in the way. Now, there's existing rail there, but it's heavily used, and negotiating access won't be cheap. (Building an additional track along it also won't be cheap.)