Construction Tour: California High-Speed Rail (Fall 2018)
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- With over 2,000 workers and 119 miles under construction, high-speed rail is firmly taking shape in California. Today, the California High-Speed Rail Authority is overseeing 4 construction packages in the Central Valley, which will become the backbone for the state's modern rail network. Join us for a construction tour near Fresno while we're led by a guide from WSP USA, the "rail delivery partner" for the Authority.
Love the progress that has been made since this video
amazing! regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina
The USA needs to prove to the world why it’s a leader, not a laggard.
They say it’s running on diesel now, fucking diesel
Awesome
Wow! I didn't think we'd be hearing words like "catenary" before 2025!! Yay!!
America has millions of people that are handicapped, fear flying, and prefer to travel by trains.
short distances, i.e. 400 to 500 miles between highly congested cities. i.e. Raleigh NC, Charlotte and Atlanta would be feasible. The Interstate 85 corridor is one of the most congested routes in America.
As a voter for this project, I'm glad that I got to see this video of the progression. I heard negative things about the HSRR over the years and it was a waste of millions of dollars and to see how far the construction has come is very exciting. Special shoutouts to those construction workers who endure the summer heat and cold weather working hard, I appreciate you all!
@@gooser__43 Sure dude, roads totally are better than rail, and are totally not heavily subsidized and an inefficient waste of space that is known to cause racial discrimination back in the 60s.
When Japan built their rail, it was heavily over budget, but to this day, it is one of the most profitable railway networks on earth. The State of California is an optimal place to put rail, and on the long run, this will be cheaper than road transport.
Assume that you are a Californian. To pay the entire thing out, every person would just need to ride the thing once for 32 years (assuming $80-100 budget), and people are bound to use this more since the entire state is in need of better transportation systems, and the argument that the entire freeway could've been fixed is such a closed-minded and inefficient POV. The entire US freeway system is over budget in the first place.
@@gooser__43 That's the thing, whether you are democrat or not, it's going to be such a waste of time, money, and space, to stop the entire project when they have already found the root causes of many of these mismanagement issues, plus the HSR authority already has a proper roadmap set for 2030.
The reason why many Californians are fine with this project more than not is because of the story of the BART. The same group of republican, for-privatization, conservative businessmen disapproved of the project because it was considered over-budget at that time. Many people were opposed, in fact just as much as now, but once the entire project was done, the BART became profitable because a lot of people underestimated how much they would use it. At this point most of the overpriced budget has been paid off.
That's why people are fine with this, because most feasibility studies point to the HSR going the same way as the bart: overpriced, opposed by many, but will end up working anyways and be paid off.
The HSR is needed more than a fix of the entire freeway system because California is a heavily congested state, moreso than most states. Each city in california is in such an optimal distance from each other so that a rail network would be needed. Airports and freeways are going to be inefficient solutions due to induced demand if they are further expanded.
Rail takes up less space, prevents emissions, and brings more people around than cars will ever do. The Shinkansen network of the European Rail Network brings billions every year for such lesser space.
In the long run, rail is going to be solution considering how much it can easily be paid off with the demand there is for it.
@@gooser__43 I think aside from the politics, every leader always does something like this to leave some sort of mark, it's really just how politics is, but honestly, I think it economic-wise, it would serve more than good for the state.
@Ramen Lover Being young and dumb!
Complex project. I hate when the LA Times writes negative articles about this project. I wish it'd just get done so people will stop complaining, and start riding!!
You know the old saying. “Rome wasn’t built in a day” it took hundreds of years to build its great city. That’s what this writer from the la times is! A guy who wants the rail built in a week which is impossible for a massive project.
Yep and there's people that want to stop the project, even though so many structures are already built. Its even more a waste.
Justin Torino those that want the project stopped are Anti jobs, Anti High Speed Rail. They love bad times, unemployment & crime till they become crime victims, then they change their tune.
the auto and oil industry is against this big time
@@Someonesaidthis yep because they will lose money. They are pretty good at convincing newspapers that this is a bad thing over all just to save their profits.
took less time to build the transcon railroad lol. Every year the project cost increases by $3 Billion. Kind of boring. in 2014 they said "We will have trains running every half hour by Christmas 2019". Its 2019 and they are 6yrs behind schedule.
Its 2021 now.lol
by the time this is built... the train will be already considered old... there will be much faster trains or who knows if even flying cars.
Probably.lol
Meanwhile ...Turkey, Poland, even Uzbekistan have high speed rail!
Come on America - what happened to “... yes we can!”?
Stay positive ... and focus on the end goal.
This is high key exciting! We have needed high speed rail for decades and its about time that we get it.
Moocow2oo It’s never going to
Happen.
Hopefully my great grandchildren will see it in there lifetimes. Is just going to run from Bakersfield to Merced? Is that the final deal?
Its a total waste of time and money. Run high speed diesels on the current lines we have now.
One of the reasons why it became so expensive was because it had to pass through built up areas, i.e., Fresno, etc., and as a consequence lots of expensive infrastructure projects had to be built up. Why couldn't they just eschew these cities and let those cities build roads to connect them to the HSR?
This is America first real high speed rail you have to build all new infrastructure to support it that going to take time and money , people are just to impatient with how long it takes to build well California is a big place it’s going to take some time ,if you build it as fast the Chinese dump a few Billion dollars more and increase the workforce.
There's just a lot of nervous nellies here. Overly concerned that their tax money is at work. Those people rather have their tax money sitting around collecting dust.
Yeah, and have it deviate over 70 miles to get connections people aren't taking the train to like Gilroy, population 48,821 (2010 Census)
The Leaking Shead agreed what makes high speed trains fast is not stopping at every small town , each time the train slow down to stop it adds to the journey time, high speed trains should only stop at large population centres let the the regular rail service the small towns.
There is the Acela and brightline
It has to go west *somewhere* to get to Silicon Valley and San Francisco from the Central Valley. Gilroy happens to be the last town of consequence before you go through the Pacheco pass tunnels to get to the valley and its population centers. Not all trains are going to stop in Gilroy of course and most will probably take Caltrain as it makes more stops.
Finally we’re getting somewhere.
I mean, it's not supposed to open until 2040
@@ryankiser294 true, but it’s taking forever, and I going to be over 30 y/o when it finishes
They should just scrap it. Build desalination plants instead!!
To the Chinese these days this would be a piece of cake or should I say a walk in the park.
China is a totalitarian dictatorship with no freedoms.
@@rockyracoon3233 and bureaucracy is what derails such projects in usa
Autotrain from LA to SF
Would actually be profitable and would happen on existing track
That would get people to ride
We have a car culture not a European or asian culture with public transit
Get used to it
I wanna ride this sooooo badly!!
D G you gotta wait 20 years to do that.
You'll have a chance, coming soon.
Maybe your great grand kids will be able to ride it
Actually you just need to wait 13 years (2033)
So cool, come on NY to FL and Chicago, CA to Texas and FL. Chicago to Salt Lake City and CA.
Good to see that works moves on and progress is made, slowly but surely. It's a huge project, after all.
its not that huge
@@ssoma151 Yeah, only spanning the entire state of California. Just like building a porch. Sure!
This project makes no sense unless it is completed to its original and agreed route.
Scrap it and build desalination plants instead!
Seems like it is taking longer than it should... but hay, better late than never!
never would have been wiser.
This is a huge project. It's gonna take a bit lol
I'd agree. I understand that the First Transcontinental Raildroad took6 years to build without dealing with large populated areas (full of infrastructure) to overcome. I honestly think that a shorter high-speed line, such as San Diego-LA would have been the better place to start. Had that been built, it most likely would have changed the public's opinion on high speed rail in the first place.
@@tannerrobinson5110 yeah I think starting with a smaller line would've been better. All well. It's already in construction thouhj
Same with HS2 - wonder which will be finished first?
I hope this project gets done before I die........
I was born and raised in Southern California and I’m glad to see this high speed rail project finally underway! To my memory, various special interests have blocked the development of this type of project in California as far back as the 60s. It would have cost a lot less and would have been far less complex had it been done then. Prior to recently retiring, I commuted between Northern and Southern California by air; I wish I’d had a high speed rail option.
1Drummer I totally agree with your comment. High speed passenger rail outside the Boston to Washington,DC Northeast Corridor should have been built in the Mid 1960’s between San Diego, Anaheim,Los Angeles,Oxnard,The San Francisco Bay Area & Sacramento as well as through the Central Valley and to Las Vegas from San Diego & Los Angeles as well as from the San Francisco Bay Area to Reno.
I don't care how "High Speed" it is.. It still takes a lot longer to travel by train instead of Plane.. Trains are not cheaper either...
At the cost of burning people out of their homes??
This project is 4 times over budget and you are paying at the pump for it. You will be able to fly a lot quicker then you took this train.
@@bryanbohlken7653 . Just upgrade the existing lines and run trains day and night!
Can anyone tell me why there are not more packages not being done in parallel, at least the major track and overpass parts? Lack of workers/money or land access?
They are, if you search for California high speed rail they had a update in summer showing all of them. They are spread out.
Really the only true high speed is the Meglev but at least this backwards country hoped for future of high speed t
Rail
People typically want to take their cars with them.
If the US Government didn't spend trillions on wars, you could have amazing infrastructure. I hope you get it finished . Make it high speed all the way, no crossings.
While we did spend trillions on wars, I don't believe that the Federal government should be responsible for building Jerry's train set. I do believe I saw a speech where Jerry said the financing was in place with private investors and state taxes. None of which seems to be true. And, shouldn't it have been completed by now or at least be Christmas this year. They better hurry! Didn't the state sign a contract with the builders that required them (the builders) to complete the project by a certain date and for a certain cost, or pay a penalty?
How about the government doesn't involve themselves with this
Anything ran by the government it's fucking stupid
Looking good fellas. Keep up the great progress.
Yeah, but you won't notice it because you will be wizzing by at over a 150 mph.
What great progress?
Incredible, the United States have spent billions on wars in several countries and now is building high speed rail that should have
began and completed years ago. Many countries have been operating high speed rail for decades. Please stop bickering and get on
with the construction. kudos for California. If the interstate highway system had been delayed we would now have a total disaster
on our roads. Onward with high speed rail system.
Awesome comment!
Well said
Haha! California's folly is now mothballed!
A sad day for HS rail fans; a beautiful day for taxpayers.
"Trillions"
Military and Infrastructure have separated budget. You sounds ignorant. You can't spend military budget to infrastructure.
OK. It is now 2021. How many miles of actual track have been completed, including the wires and power supply? Zero, maybe? I thought so. Remember, it has been nearly TWENTY YEARS since we started paying for this (that is a generation right there). In the first 10 years we got a lot of 'studies' for our money. Maybe, just maybe, if we keep hoping, and praying, and most of all PAYING, in will be finished in time for your GRANDKIDS to take a ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles on it. They will be in high school or college by then. They won't be riding for a weekend in LA, though. It will be too expensive for that. Don't believe me? The ride from London to Paris costs $350+ round trip, and it is a shorter distance (SF to NYC round trip on Jet Blue is less than that).
I miss living in Fresno.
Hello.
Ew
Armpit of California.lol
you have to choose, chilling inside a train for 30-60 mins safely and just watching you-tube or the stress of driving in a car for 4-6 hours with possibility of an accident.
Say...do you remember books and learning things? Should be mandatory for train passengers.
The cost will more than quadruple by the time it is built because this is not 1890, it's 2018. California's hyper-regulations alone will make it take much longer than proposed. Plus you don't have the open spaces like ranches that you once had so every partial will have to be dealt with. Good luck with this one.
Ours is already running in miami. Miami to west Palm with eventual connection to Orlando. Generally it works well doing what it's designed to do. Transporting people at above average times with minimal imprint on the passing community. Problems are that it's slightly expensive. However that problem will be less likely in California cause the vast majority of ridership is going to be salaried workers. Alot of our workers here are hourly. So they use the tri rail instead.
Brightline isn't high speed. It runs at 80mph for the existing right of way, and will only run at 110 from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale. CAHSR will run at 220 mph, one of the fastest in the world.
I cant wait till it's done, so exciting!!
Just asking for cost and date info. How much by whom (CA, Fed, Others) and what are the project complete dates. Every 6 months for such huge expenditure isn't asking much.
There are all kinds of reports, not all in the same place, but this should keep you busy:
www.hsr.ca.gov/About/Business_Plans/index.html
www.hsr.ca.gov/About/Legislative_Affairs/legislative_reports.html
www.hsr.ca.gov/About/Funding_Finance/index.html
My goodness. Where is the train? Power pole? And tract? The HSR is a complex system, not just concrete. It will take another decade at least.
Senator Diane Feinstein’s husband own the construction company that build CHSR project while have very union employees. That’s why it’s taking so long to build.
False. Her husband owned part of one of the construction companies and sold ownership over ten years ago. This canard has been repeated on right wing political sites for years. Educate yourself.
www.allgov.com/usa/ca/news/controversies/feinstein-derails-assertions-that-husband-is-chief-bidder-on-high-speed-rail-130506?news=849937
butt!...that's just about THE most stupid thing I've ever read on CZcams comments.
Gregg Hanson typical NPC respond.
@@butthurt8
Thank God they have a skilled work force. It is not the union that slowed this project down but for the environmental and property owners who want there share of this project money. Plus when you let up to 5 companies bid on this job and pay for all of these companies engineering cost makes a lot of cost go up. We won't even start on moving all the utilities which is slowing down my section of the high speed rail. I Wonder how many a Americans felt about the interstates going across the USA when we started them in the 40's and 50's
i have a family in san-diego , fresno and merced every time take me 8-9 hours of traveling by highway jams, so now I can just take the speed tran for just 3 hours yhanks to california
green
remember BART, took a long time and it isn't finished yet, so what happens when an Airport is shut down because of fog and planes don't fly, how do you get to southern California. Remember the cost is spread out over years, all the money in the world will not give you this over night, So lets break it down, 4000 jobs, Federal tax and State tax, and you cut the cost in Half.
Wow same course as the fires.
Funny how that happens !
After the project is finished the hall will be full
This thing is never going to get done. What a waste of money
California's tax dollars in progress..i can't understand why not a pay route first ..san. Frisco to San Jose so it can pay for his way in progress..how far are u behind..2020 should be running somewhere..voted for in 2008..😳🗽🏥🏣🏢😍well at this pace tax payers will still be paying for this dead..this one should've been giving to that Japanese..they would 've been to New York bye NOW..😳..
what's the tally up to with ppl forced out of there houses to build this so far
I’m not sure but probably 0 so far
*their
This shit will never be finish as a product which was voted for....I didn't vote for this money pit. If they ever finish will be from Madera to Bakersfield...How the fuck will I be riding that shit living in Sacramento? I say cut our loses, a dollar not spend is a dollar save.
And the 99 freeway next to it is still shitty
Joey, so get on the train and leave your car home! That's the point of it.
@@gregghanson6095 or we upgrade what people here actually use
Airports and highways
@@iZipTiedMyPenisToABrick hahahaha....think building high speed rail is more possible!
@@gregghanson6095 ah yes
Cuz taking private land is so great
@@iZipTiedMyPenisToABrick there is no progress without taking private land. Everybody's just gotten a thousand times more possessive and paranoid about it. Wonder how much private land was used in the fifties to build the Interstate system which is now dilapidated, constantly under construction, glutted with traffic 24/7 in many metropolitan places. We know how widening freeways went...more cars. And now that the airlines are either going under, or having to rethink everything, it's probably a good time to rethink air travel which, I'm sure you would agree, has become a living nightmare. Have you every ridden high speed rail anyplace? Japan, France, China? Sacrifices were made. But the efficiency, operational costs, passenger comfort with zero delays and screwed up schedules are a thing of the past. It is THE most efficient and affordable way to move people and is getting better.
ROFL
This shit will never pay for it self. By the time its done minimum wage will be 20 an hour. Tax and spend i guess.
Look what you can do with unlimited government money.
Waste
Of
Our
Money.
great idea but they're taking too long and using too much money. As a Fresno resident they need to hurry up so that traffic wont be so congested
jone her any way why not a suspended train with no moving parts, is this train going to be like a masked version of BART?
I was excited about a bullet train but this technology is not innovating or new. I’m no longer excited about your aveman train.
the train to nowhere it will never be finished thanks Jerry what a colossal waste
It’s never going to happen.
Desalination plants are needed more.
Electric cars and trucks as well
It seems to me that when an enterprise, whether private or state, hire a contractor to build a building, bridge, or other projects, the contractor, almost always, agrees to complete the project by a certain date and for a stated cost or pay a penalty if they don't meet the terms of the contract. Am I wrong to think that a man as savvy as Jerry would indeed include that clause in the contract to build this train set?
All of that is in the contracts. The construction companies that are building this are specialized on mega projects like this. They have lawyers, you know. And those lawyers are paid to find ways to make them more money for less work. And they do, because this is a standard state infrastructure contract and there are known holes in the system. Tutor Perini is a particularly egregious filer of change orders and knows how to both get and then to milk state projects. I would love to see the owner and his cronies in jail, but that's probably not going to happen, because lawyers.
Also, you do understand that there is a very well organized and funded Republican legal opposition on a scale we have never seen before for what is essentially a jobs project for their home turf in the Central Valley. They have caused about 80% of the costly cascading delays driving the costs on this project into the stratosphere.
...and its cancelled.
hate traffic in LA and Bay Arwa. love this project b/c it benefits almost everybody! more jobs will be created and it will make a brilliant economic impact through the entire route. More importantly, it connects NorCal and SoCal.
@Ramen Lover I was really naive when I was in college.
@Ramen Lover agree. And finally understood why Trump withdraw the funding. I am deeply concerned about that the corrupt politicians will eventually kill this country!
@Ramen Lover can’t agree more
12 years? Should have let the Chinese build it, would have been done by now and on budget
Stee..and the Chinese government pays for it...You forgot that tiny detail.
Chinese can lay 6 kms per day
@@lishan7219 . The beauty of dictatorship.
All I have to say is move over farmers, of the San Joaquin Valley of California. We are seeing progress go on. The immigrants from Mexico Central America and South America need to educate themselves. The farm-labor job's will dry up because of drought and climate change. This project is 20 years behind progress for the central valley of California.
um no it won't. you really don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Scam
usa high speed rail is really a joke!😂😂😂😂
Guys, I’m from China.🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Have fun with zero human rights lmao
STOP, STOP Dude it's all over, there is not going to be a high speed train. Just another $15 billions thrown away on a white elephant. Hey who doesn't want to ride from Merced to Bakersfield? SUCKERS
Need desalination plants!
Flying cars with robot drivers will be here and well established long before this train to nowhere gets one rider .Good lord who planed this thing ? Homer Simpson ?? HIGH-SPEED FAIL !!
Been rereading your 1935 Popular Mechanics?
That's what conservatives said about the Interstate highway system until Eisenhower made it about national defense. I don't see that happening for a train.
I see men walking around with hands empty. Are they tourist? Zhees.
so... how OVER BUDGET is this now? and how many people will this actually impact? very few in the state will use this more than a half a dozen times.
Curtis, are those your made up statistics.?
@@gregghanson6095 what stats did I state? I asked questions. and I stated an opinion. plus, I know me... I don't really have the desire to "speed rail" to NorCal. I like road trips. if the rail is actually completed, it'll open the freeway up for me and my road trips. which will be fine. however, I will have to put up with the semis on the freeways... they won't be able use the rail. that is until the rail starts going bankrupt and the CA gov't starts to use the rail for business purposes to cover expenses. airlines do this with some package shipments to supplement their costs (this I know because I was trained with shipping hazardous materials). so more hazardous materials will be shipped with nonhazardous materials and people. then, in my opinion (again) it will mainly be a means for cargo to be shipped from LA to SF (areas) with some people. it'll be like freight/cargo ships are now. this will be the case because the freighters will pay just a touch more than the people will based on cost per space. again, my opinion.
@@atruefreethinker1944 "few people more than a half dozen times???? You made that up. We're all happy for you the you like to drive. The upsetting thing about this is that you seem to have no regard for the future or the impact of what the trains can do for the STATE...not just YOU driving along in your car.
@@gregghanson6095 fair enough I did state that. however, it is over budget already (doubled by some news sources). that I didn't make up. so... stop taking my tax dollars to push this. oh... I don't get a say in that do I?
@@atruefreethinker1944 Of course it's over budget! Every construction project is over budget. Yeah, you do have a say in where your tax dollars go...vote. We work on a majority rules concept here. We all have to be taxed on things that are not our individual priorities. If you NEVER take the train, you are supporting millions of your fellow Californians who will. :)
This now 275 KM piece of track started in the early 2000s is now postponed indefinitely has been a total failure costing so far approx 77 Billion dollars and I am not sure that includes trains and carriages, look up china high speed rail on CZcams and see the difference, during this video I did not see one person working but lots that were being paid, you are in very sad shape America,
OH yes I must ask, are you tired of winning yet?
Chinese workers work 12 hours a day
No holidays
No weekends
That's why their shit gets done quicker
Chinese cities are close where as America they're not
Flying is quicker here and most people just prefer cars
Quit trying to act smart
Goodbye.
FAIL.
Waste
Of
Our
Money
Meanwhile we are in a endless drought, because why build water collection basins and desalination plants? High speed train!!!!
Right on!
Failed project
This is a scam! How many times have you taken a train in the last 6 years? They cannot find any private investors for the project because this is a unprofitable venture. They are going to raise everyone's taxes for this
Bryan Bohlken you can’t take trains that don’t exist. Also, roads are not profitable either, but I don’t hear people complaining about that. Roads are massively subsidized.
It would have been safer and cheaper to build a series of Airports instead of the high speed rail in Earthquake alley... Plus, it's enough money to buy a half million electric taxis to get the people to and from the Airport.
Bryan,.have you noticed there are no trains to take? Lord, man. wake up.
Yeah because everyone is on airplanes bud, it is not the year 1920 anymore.
Bryan Bohlken get yourself a passport and get the hell out if the country. See how the rest of the civilized world travels!! They have planes too. You're living in a bubble...in your car....in the freeway. Pathetic
No one is going to ride it because it will never make the advertised running time. Stop this boned headed waste now!
How do you know that?
Johnny James you would be right as home in Anti high speed rail, Anti passenger train Arizona which doesn’t want people to have jobs that HSR provides and will provide when the system is running.
But WHO is paying for it? No private investors have stepped up.
@@PASH3227 because it isn't profitable at all
Waste
Of
Our
Money
True!