6 Months of Progress on High-Speed Rail
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- čas přidán 18. 07. 2016
- A look at all the progress made by the High-Speed Rail Authority between December 2015 and June 2016.
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Can't wait to ride it. But all the cities along the High Speed Rail need to improve their public transportation. So we don't still have to rent a car after we get off the train.
Love it. Keep pushing ahead, California High Speed Rail. Gotta get this built.
Shanan Delp I hope it does not happen... This is a waste of money. I did not vote for this.
Don't be such a sour grape
Fernando Acuna it's going to go through the San Gabriel mountains. Why do you need this anyway. It's not going to alleviate traffic. Keep building up keep adding to traffic..
I'm so glad that this is happening! Great for California, and it's way overdue!
Robert Rudow why? Why do you need think we need this?
High speed rail is without a doubt way overdue for a country this large.
california is roughly as big as germany and has nearly the same population. if you see it this way, it's not an overdue its about time.
California does not have the same population as germany
ist estimated to rise to such an amount or at least 50mio
France has an extensive high speed rail network. France is 643,801 km2 and has a population of 66 million people. California is 423,970 km2 and has a population of 38.8 million people.
Yea by the time this is completed our population will be a little over 50million. We are currently around 39 mil. Bullet Train/HSR will totally help out the state a lot and even connect Nor Cal and So Cal more economically than it already is.
CA High Speed Rail needs to seriously reconsider building over Tejon Pass via the I-5 corridor. It's a much more direct and competitive route between LA and Bakersfield than the currently planned route via Palmdale. A hundred years ago the Santa Fe Railroad didn't complete the rail gap, and now CA High Speed Rail has a chance to complete the rail gap between LA and the Central Valley. It's more than feasible and possibly less expensive than the planned route over Tehachapi and Soledad Canyon.
I'm Nor Cal so I don't know the details that you know. You should go to meetings and express your concerns/ideas with the cities and high speed rail authority. Or anyone that knows connections to what to do haha.
I believe the reason is technical. High speed trains do not like hilly mountain environments. I assume the cost to bore through mountains would be too high when it would only achieve savings of a few minutes. Going over the mountain would have a very high cost of electricity and maintenance, along with the potential of shutting down when it does occasionally snow up there.
@@nme700 The Tehachapi crossing is presumably higher than Tejon. Plus the routing via Tehachapi was likely more to do with politics than physical challenges, connecting to Palmdale and the future Las Vegas HSR line to get support in the Antelope Valley as well as Bakersfield with promise of a downtown station.
This will really spur local rail projects like our own Monterey and Santa Cruz Branch Lines, where the corridor and tracks exist but the communities have yet to fully commit to providing local rail transit.
I am looking forward to the eventual final results! This is probably the biggest infrastructure project we've taken on since the Interstate Highway system! Should be amazing to witness. :)
I think we need to challenge the CEQA process. Namely, by going to the plebiscite to create the HSRA, the state affirmed its vision that the benefits of HSR environmental impact suspended judicial standing of opponents to agency-driven driven projects. The 2008 enabling referendum was more than just an obligation bond authorization. The State Water Project relies on similar (and ancient) 1960 authorization for its ongoing work, and educating the Bar of California - an agency organized under the State Constitution, on respecting the constitutional validity of voter-incorporated agencies is essential. We have, to be blunt, judges who have gone rogue. When the HSRA fails to assert its authority because it's afraid a judge might assent to meritless claims of a few property owners in Palo Alto, it sets a dangerous precedent that will doom key parts of the project. Complicit with the attorneys is the news media, especially in Los Angeles, which so often fails to step back and contextualize local opposition. This happened to the Red Line to the point the Federal Congress got involved, even though has absolutely no delegated powers to do so, and we are still untangling things to build the subway to the sea.
My challenge with HSR 2016 "shift to the north" is the MWD just finished the inland feeder project, meaning there are a whole bunch of engineers and miners out there who just managed to put a 42 mile tunnel under the San Bernardino mountains crossing nine faults and and there is a whole factory to construct concrete sections for use by TBRs. You should have gone in and hired them while their knowledge was fresh. Of course you aren't going to read any of these comments because I'm nobody.
This is going to cut directly through our San Gabriel mountains... Not good
Most expensive HSR per mile in the world, and also the slowest. Go, California!
New Urban expressway rebuilds with on demand toll lanes are similar in cost if not more over 100 million a mile. Besides American transportation infrastructure costs not just California are the most expensive in the world including where you like. California HSR is made for +200 mph (+330 kpm) travel so unlike Acela in the Northeast where we never get around to high speed tracks this is really high speed rail. The entire Cal HSR is over 500 miles (800 km) phase I and over 800 miles (1300 km) total build. California would spend 2 to 3 times mores with adding yet more freeways and airports so that is why it is happening.
False and false. With 200mph they are aiming for the current operational speed record. Yes when it is finished japan will probably run faster, but it will be within the top 10 of high speed trails. And regarding the cost, at the moment Germany is building a single train station for 5 Billion USD, only including the station and a few miles of track (Stuttgart 21). Or to pick a more conventional high speed rail project without a crazy underground station, the new track Nürnberg Erfurt in Germany costs 3,4 Billion USD for only 100 km.
Levitates? LOL...
50 years ago, if that's all that had gotten done after 6 months of work, the contractor would have been fired and the project cancelled.
Very excited for this BIG.... wait... MEGA project for California! We need this ! Build this now before the land is lost from residential buildings. It was over budget but California can pay for it !
We need more freight rail!
That will happen and rise up by 40% 5 years from now :]
We do and we also need good high speed passenger rail and by high speed, I mean over 185 miles per hour.
so you're halfway done with a mile of rail? At that rate my grandchildren will be dead before they can ride a train to an empty field north of Fresno
Its a lot of engineering work. From what I understand, they plan to have all of the infrastructure (ie bridges, trenches, and grading) done first so that rail instillation can occur unobstructed
It's okay, you'd never ride the train anyway.
Your grandkids won't have to go to an empty field to catch the train. It'll start from San Jose and run at least to the outskirts of Bakersfield; although by then the funds to continue into downtown Bakersfield will be secured and surveying will be well along on the line to Southern California.
We're still trying to catch up to more technologically advanced nations that can build HSR, like Turkey, Morocco and, believe it or not, Kenya.
When Kenya is ahead of us, something's wrong.
Who said anything about that though, in regards to who will and won't ride it. All I was trying to do was try and explain what was going on. It probably doesn't help that when it comes to acquiring the required land, California has a lot of rings for organizations to leap through.
laying track is easy, the hard parts are grade seperations. The grade seperations are small in length, but they are where the majority of construction is done. Rail is laid probably a year or 2 before the system opens.
Lets hear about the Ave. 27 overpass that is LONG overdue. The residents in the Country Club area have been lied to by HSR for years about when this overpass will be completed. A one year project has stretched into YEARS by HSR.. Instead patting yourself on the back with highlights showing what has been completed, tell us the facts as to when the Ave. 27 project will be done. It's time to be truthful to the residents of the area impacted... When will the Ave. 27 overpass be done?
Too much talking, too little works done
It will never be finished and will eventually will become a rail line for Amtrak
I'm sure my great grand kids will look at this project, when it's complete in the year 2107, laugh, and wonder why anyone would use technology so antiquated (by 2107 standards...)
What a catastrophic waste of funds.
This is Stupid,they should put the freight trains through the valley and
keep the passenger service where the people are and with the better
ocean view,Along the coast
The valley has better views than the ocean.
I think there are greater issues at hand than the view... >:l
There are far more people in Central Valley than along the coast between SF and LA
My God, what a waste of money, unions love it, it means money, the trains to no where
This is ridiculous, the construction per mile is 45% more expensive than the Chinese and even 5% more expensive than the Japanese high speed rail. "Good" for Californian state budget or shall I say QE.
All American infrastructure is costing more than many other developed countries it is an American problem not just California.
rpf276 And I believe that is not a good thing at all in the long run especially for Americans. The federal or state government have to find a middle path or win-win solution for this issue.
Being the first high speed rail (new equipment has to be bought) and in a state with significant higher wadges than japan, coming in at 5% higher costs than japan would be a really good job. Yes china is cheaper, but they have the unique combination of cheap labor and high tech equipment available. You can't beat them.
Why compare efficient East Asian countries with the slow bureaucratic American system? It will be good enough if the Californian can build the rails in 10 years. The chinese and japanese can probably get it done in 1 years with the same price tag.
5% more than japan really isn't bad. It could cost as little as China's if we paid our workers as badly as they do. Not worth it for savings IMO
Being forced to pay for something that I will never ride. Living in San Diego county and it doesn't make any sense to have to go to LA to catch it. Just another boondoggle at the taxpayers expense.
I dont have kids, yet I pay taxes for schools. I pay taxes for a war that I dont agree with. Thats the deal being a tax paying American.... Hop on Amtrak(via Coaster) to Anaheim. I fail to see how this is a "boondoggle".
Martin Encinal You’re kidding... right?
Too expensive, late, and used for political purposes. Shut it down.
How about no keep this porject up and running