Spring 2024 Construction Progress Report: Trainsets, Construction, Stations, and More!
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- One step closer to trainsets, one step closer to station design, one step closer to high-speed rail!
In the Spring 2024 Progress Report, learn more about the progress we’re making daily on high-speed rail construction, and how we’re advancing design on the Central Valley stations and train interiors of our future high-speed trains.
For more information visit our websites:
www.BuildHSR.com
www.HSR.CA.gov
I don't know why the soundtrack is 100% synthwave, but I can dig it.
I came to comment the same thing. I was like.. I feel like I'm watching an educational video from the early 90s lol
they know their target audience
Kavinsky would approve.
No I don't like this guy's voice so I mute him and their music and play Pink Floyd
We are Entering the Future of American Rail Travel
Some Synthwave can't hurt
This is wonderful. Yes, it is taking longer than anticipated or desired, and we all wish the costs could be fully contained. However, in 25 or 50 or 100 years none of that will matter (or even be remembered). What will matter is that people of character and fortitude pushed this project through and improved transportation for the people of California. It already appears to have inspired other similar projects in other states; let's hope that keeps going.
And who is going to use this white elephant ? 6 1/2 hours to LA absurd
@@scotttild Yeah, it is. That's why the HSR needs to be built.
Nope. In 50 years we will look at this like we look at Caltrain BART and Muni, which is to say obsolete unmaintained expensive and useless.
You were paid to say this
@@celebrityrog Thanks for revealing how little you know about Caltrain, BART, Muni, and CAHSR.
Great update! Please consider doing an updated complete 119-mile flyover!
This would be great, yeah!
They cannot without admitting how pathetic progress is.
@@coldlogic800 You can follow the route on google maps satellite view. They've been doing very well.
@@coldlogic800 Lol.. progress has been pretty good! Pay attention!
Flyovers of two of the construction packages that they did last year:
czcams.com/video/4wIFNkysNCQ/video.html
czcams.com/video/4tyWMs9nZKE/video.html
Would love to see this become an annual thing, and make these videos public. It's hard to understand the scale of the project just looking at individual structures
Go CaHSR!
California legislature will scrap it.
Yes to the nowhere Central Valley.
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6:38 isn’t a highway widening project funded by the high speed rail project a bit counterintuitive???
Edit: they could’ve specified if this widening project would’ve benefited the hsr project, but idk where those benefits are… if they’re strapped for cash, why would they fund a caltrans highway project? I haven’t looked much into it, could be a simple answer.
Uhh... I do not want my tax dollars going to highway widening. CaHSR is underfunded but still has money for this? Sounds very irresponsible.
Yeah, when I heard them say that I literally said “WHAT?!” I’m willing to bet HSR had their arm twisted to on this matter. It makes no sense for HSR to be funding highway widening.
@@ehoops31 CHSR has not choice but to spend the money widening it, the federal and state dont just hand CHSR money and let them do whatever, often times funding is for a specific project and the money can ONLY be used on that one project. In this case, the feds gave them money to widen that highway so they can either do nothing with the money and risk the fed to not support them anymore, or just use it.
I'm looking into this now...
It sounds like the State Route 46 widening project is a much larger project, most of which is coming from other sources. CAHSR is only supporting a specific part: _lowering_ the highway, so that trucks can fit under a railway overpass. This wasn't a legal requirement (there are other places trucks can cross) but the city of Wasco insisted on it under threat of obstructing other parts of the project. CAHSR obviously don't wanna pay for highway projects which is why you can hear immediately afterwards the narrator says they went and got a separate federal grant for it.
So it's mostly playing politics and money merry-go-rounds, rather than any _actual_ rail funding being diverted.
@@Nalehwthanks for looking into it!
Thank you for this update. I saw a bunch of this a couple of months ago touring the central valley area for my company.
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Please don't go with Alstom they fucked up the Avelia Liberty in the Northeast Corridor so bad
How?
Also the TGV M (Avelia Horizon) in France.
Yes, Go with Siemens!
Cheers from 🇩🇪 ;)
If Siemens got the contract, they'd have the same issues Alstom had in managing the unrealistic expectations of the NEC. With CAHSR the right of way would be owned by one entity, and wouldn't have any of the issues the NEC had.
With Brightline West going with Siemens, this is a no brainer for Siemens to be California’s choice.
I don’t think people understand why costs are so high. This project isn’t just building high speed rail, it’s upgrading utilities, reforming roadways and also funding other transit projects. It’s a way bigger project than it gets credit for and it is still a v,amiable investment that should continue to receive funding.
So it should be fully funded by California tax dollars.
@@onetwothreeabc Do you realize that California subsidizes other states? It pays more in federal taxes than it receives back from the federal government. Same with states like NY, MA, WA, IL… so I think our most populous state deserves a turn to feed at the federal trough more than a debtor state like Alabama or Kentucky.
Also like it’s costing LA $9 billion to extend the Wilshire subway, $2 billion to finish SF’s central subway, and $17 billion for NY’s 2nd Ave subway, infrastructure in the US is just expensive
This is a 400+ mile HSR project aiming for the gold standard that has to tunnel thru 3 mountain ranges, how cheap did these knuckleheads complaining about price seriously expect it to be???
@@conorreynolds9739 I support you Californian seek independence if you don’t like to pay tax to the Fed.
Paying more tax than other states is not a reason why people in New York or Chicago should pay to widen a road in California.
@@onetwothreeabc You realize everyone in American benefits from infrastructure improvements, even if those improvements are fully contained within a single state, right? You also realize your tax dollars constantly go to various projects in other states. That's because it's all still the same country. If you don't want your tax dollars funding massive infrastructure improvements in America, move to another country.
Naysayers be damned. CA needs this badly.
Yes am pretty sure if we double minimum wage to $40/hour enough money can be raised through taxes too! Go California!
Who “needs this badly”? I can fly from anywhere in the LA area to Oakland for $56, and get there ina fraction of the time. Seriously - who NEEDS this?
In the construction accounting world we are very familiar with the concept of “percentage complete” - why don’t you ever disclose what percent of the HSR is complete?
Failure to do so is intentional obfuscation.
@@davidepperson2376 "construction complete percentage" is hard to calculate on a project this size... do you calculate using time it takes to construct every element? or by mileage of track? for example, if you have a 100 mile stretch of rail right-of-way, and along the route there are 12 new grade separated bridges needed. each one of those bridges might take 6 months to complete. let's say CHSR has the capability of doing all the bridges at the same time, but combined that is 72 months worth of work, where lying the the 100 miles of track takes only 1full year, you could say that CHSR is more than 80% complete in that in 100 mile stretch, even if there is not a single mile of track laid on the ground. my point is, all these massive infrastructure projects that are part of CHSR are really the heavy lifting portion. laying 500 miles of pristine track on a perfectly prepared track bed is the easy part.
It's great to see just how much is being done! People complain that HSR is expensive, but watching this makes it very clear why it costs so much. There is a ton of infrastructure going in! Bridges, viaducts, utilities, outreach! There is a ton to get done and being the first HSR project in California it is going to take a lot of time and effort.
Excellent! I hope that high-density development will be allowed around the stations.
Unlike private free enterprise Brightline CAHSR has no plans to profit from real estate development. How dumb is that?
@@davidjackson7281Brightline doesn’t have the time or money to build was CAHSR is doing. And the one big route from Las Vegas to LA is getting tons of fed gov support, also unlike CAHSR. Tho I would agree real estate investment would be smart
@@bobsteve4812 To date CAHSR has received about $7 Billion in fed grants vs. $3 Billion for BLW. Frankly BLW is putting CAHSR to shame. Have you had a chance to view any CAHSRA board meetings?
@@davidjackson7281 BLW is a shorter route without the tunneling and grade separation needed to cover 2/3 of Cali’s height. It would always be a more expensive project due to those factors alone, yet gets far fewer federal grants relative to its size, many of which only came recently. It’s not like under a Republican presidency and congress did good for it. Btw I’m fully supportive of BLW, but construction has only begun so we’ll if they get anywhere near that 2028 timeline.
@@bobsteve4812 Btw l am supported of both projects. BLW may somewhat miss the 2028 timeline but CAHSR has never ever made a timeline goal since 2008 when btw the governor was Republican. BLW will begin revenue operations (long) before CAHSR. The valley segment is 171 miles vs. BLW's longer 218 mile route. l have no doubt BLW will be much more successful. Would anyone rather visit Bakersfield vs. Vegas? As CAHSR still dilly-dallies BLW has already ordered 10 Siemens trainsets.
Awesome work! 🎉
Really hoping Siemens wins the bid over Alstom
CAHSR should have already chosen Siemens long before private enterprise BLW has now just done rather than dilly-dally like they always do. There's no sense of urgency with this public project socialism DEl endeavor. Shameful.
@davidjackson7281 DEI endeavor? Can you explain that? Too much right wing echo chambers in your internet consumption
@@eapleitez To each their own in a free speech society unlike a left wing totalitarian socialist regime, my friend.
Unlike naive liberals who do and say what they are brainwashed to believe l am a libertarian critical thinker. How's by you?
@davidjackson7281 I'm asking you how is the a DEI project? You seem to applying labels to something that has nothing to do with that. Also, mass transit is a bad thing?
@@eapleitez Of course public transit is very important especially when it isn't built as a social welfare program. l doubt you have watch the board meetings to understand what this project is ... amateurs slowly getting experience on the job.
Good to see progress on actual solutions and not scams like hyperloops or autonomous cars (aka Musk)
I actually do think autonomous cars have a future, but not one where everyone owns one. They’ll be more like a rideshare service, one you call up on an app, it takes you to where you want to go, drops you off, and heads out to pick up the next customer. They’d be really good for suburbs and places transit may not reach or be very effective.
@@ChrisJones-gx7fc So… a taxi.
@@calicodavis1511 I mean, basically yeah, but then what’s Uber and Lyft?
@@ChrisJones-gx7fc No they will be circling around making more traffic and more wear and tear on our roads.
And if you live in a "bad" neighborhood you will not get service.
@@1981menso well if, and it is if, autonomous cars are here to stay, I see them being like a rideshare service, not necessarily personal ownership, used to fill transit gaps in cities and suburban areas, much like taxis and rideshare are now.
Tell us about the tunnels required to enter the Bay Area and the L.A. Basin.
The cathedral in cologne Germany took 600 years, so this isn't too bad.
and that's why germany is building for eternity. and as you can see, the cathedral is still standing.
This will need a remodel in 30 years.
Yes but I use after-shave, not cologne.
Many landowners will become very rich by CaHSR.
Same type of thing with the Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona! I think they are almost done!
Very happy to see regular updates on this massive project! Really puts into perspective the scale and amount of detail needed to complete!
Keep it up CHSR!
This is an amazing update. I have loved seeing the increase in production quality of these videos since this project started. I absolutely appreciate the explanations so that non-transit inclined people can understand what's being discussed.
I really hope that the HSR stations are built and planned around mixed-use high-density neighborhoods.
Lots of housing near stations, please..
DENSE HOUSING!
@@1981menso doesn't have to be. The problem we have today is companies owning homes or a single person owning 15000 homes and only renting a portion out. Google the 15000 homes guy.
@@Cookies4Wookiees Density equals more housing which means lower prices and more choices.
Oooh. Slums and high-speed rail! Kewl.
@@jazzlover10000 not sure where you got that from but. Enjoy your life
Great progress!
I believe in CHSR
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I think the very likely winner for the trainset will be a variant of the Siemens _Velaro_ trainset. For two reasons: 1) they haven't been plagued by reliability issues of recent Alstom train sets (ask Amtrak about the _Avelia LIberty_ train sets or SNCF about the TGV M train sets) and 2) the train set could be built at Siemens Mobility's assembly line in southern Sacramento County.
Brightline West recently chose Siemens, and according to a December 2023 Railway Age article about Nevada DOT seeking a "Buy America" exemption from the FRA for Brightline West for HSR components not currently made in the US, which included the proposals from Siemens and Alstom, Siemens would build a new HSR manufacturing plant in Nevada. Given they've now been chosen and as such will most certainly move forward with that plan (I suspect them saying Nevada was a way to coax NVDOT/BLW into choosing them as it means Nevada jobs, as Alstom would have built the trains at its existing NY plant), should CAHSR choose Siemens also it's likely its trains would also be made at that same plant, or at least that would make sense.
@@ChrisJones-gx7fc It's also a possibility that siemens is already the preferred choice, and this contest is just to appear impartial. I see it all the time in government hiring. they already know who they want to hire, but open the job to the public so they can say they aren't biased, and perhaps find a better candidate in the process.
Unfortunately this is going from nowhere to nowhere, ridership will be a a big problem. Will never pay for itself and connect it to big city will be prohibitive unless we go underground
@@potblack6043 interesting you say that, because CHSRA’s 2024 Service Planning Methodology supporting document, under Fleet Specifications, it says “trainsets with performance characteristics equivalent to the Alstom AGV trainset model were used for the pure run-time calculations.”
@@kamenzakov-mh8pl Merced and Bakersfield are not nowhere (Fresno and Bakersfield are the fifth and ninth most populous cities in the state, and Merced is both a gateway to Yosemite NP and home to the newest UC school), and there’ll be transit at both ends that connects HSR to the Bay Area/Sacramento and SoCal. CAHSR will share the Caltrain corridor between SF and San Jose, so it only needs to get across Pacheco Pass to Gilroy, then construct 1-2 new electrified tracks (three total in the corridor) from Gilroy to San Jose that it’ll also share with Caltrain.
As for reaching LA, there will be a considerable amount of tunneling through the San Gabriel Mountains and San Fernando Valley, with an underground station at Burbank Airport, before HSR tracks return to ground level to enter the existing Metrolink corridor and follow alongside it into LAUS, and from there it’ll share tracks with Metrolink and Amtrak to Anaheim.
Thank you construction workers we appreciate you! Stay safe!
I love these updates. Thank you
This is all so exciting!
We really appreciate the updates!
This is fantastic, More people need to hear about this. Fantastic
Amazing!
Great to see things moving forward
Yes.😮
Well edited and informative update as always, Cant wait for Cali HSR!!!!!
Great update. I can't wait for the trainset award. Keep up the good work.!!!
Awesome! I can't wait until this is running.
My guess it will never be finished - at least not when the costs for tunneling into Bay Area and LA are disclosed. Even in nearly-flat central valley, with almost no population or right of way issues, it's already vastly over budget. Tunneling thru high seismic areas will see costs balloon to massive levels - of course, they'll try and say 'who coulda known?' - except every contractor and insider knows it right now - they simply choose not to tell taxpyers the truth because this is a lifetime project for those who get the needle into the vein of taxpayers...
Is just another a scam by the California politicians.
Thanks for the update. I hope I will be able to ride this HSR in my lifetime.
I am glad that we are finally starting to see real progress and tracktion :) on high speed rail projects across the nation. At some point in the future you could have the option to HSR across the country instead of flying!
Will be first in line to ride when it opens. Keep on pushing!
are there any plans for bus connections to towns that are not served by the rail itself?
Yes, including Los Angeles for the time being. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there will be a train connection from LA to the CAHSR initial terminus in Bakersfield. Which sucks. However, there will be a train connection from SF to Merced as I understand it.
@@mrxman581 East Bay to Merced, yeah, with bus/BART to reach SF, same as it is now. As for Bakersfield-LA, that’s all the more reason to push funding and building CAHSR’s Bakersfield-Palmdale segment, in addition to Merced-San Jose, so both open at the same time. Hopefully that could happen by the mid to late 2030s, though it depends on when construction starts which probably won’t be earlier than 2031, after Merced-Bakersfield begins service.
Several, both at the ends, and in the central valley proper (look up the "Cross Valley Corridor," which is a plan for phased implementation of bus and then rail service running perpendicular across the valley meeting HSR at Hanford, linking places like Lemoore, Hanford, Visalia, and Porterville )
Keep up the great work! Thanks for the updates
super cool! thank you construction workers!
How many yards of concrete did you pour last month? (Crickets)
Nice to see this coming together! Way to make the station mockups look like the radiator in Grandma's first apartment!
Go, CHSR!
..and choose Siemens!
Cheers from 🇩🇪 ;)
Bad idea. 😅
And what do you want, Alstom? They are having problems with their TGV M sets in France - that's their home base and do I have to mention the Avelia Liberty sets on the Northeast Corridor?
@@kristoffermangila There are no problems with the TGV M. They will be slightly delayed (6 months) but thats pretty much to be expected with any projects nowadays.
@@buckdanny9062 Of course they have massive problems right now. The train commutes the entire time between the factory and the test track in Velim. At the EBA they already say internally that the way the TGV M is, it wouldn't even get approval in Germany.
Awesome! The Church Ave update was a nice surprise. I'm looking forward to more drone and quarterly updates!
So excited!!!!
Why are we funding highway widening projects with CHSR money?
Example?
6:38 @@ES-hr6vg
I think I found where the cost overruns are coming from
@@ES-hr6vgWatch at 6:38. SR-46 widening project done by Caltrans, funded by CAHSR.
because carbrain
An end to end flyover would be really helpful. I had no idea how much was done until I watched a video by the 4 foot, but his video is a few years out of date.
💯 I've gotten really frustrated by the communications of CAHSR. Their coverage plays into the hands of folks and news outlets who spread misinformation that this troubled project is even worse off than it actually is. CAHSR over-indexes on paper achievements, which while I'm sure took a lot of white-collar work, are really hard for anyone outside of the bureaucracy to understand. It trumpets job creation and consumption metrics, which play into "boondoggle" suspicions. Then, when finally on the ground, its coverage both omits the huge bulk of progress (the earthwork comprising the right of way at large) and zooms in on incomplete skeletons of structures in the middle of nowhere. And it does so with so much jargon (falsework, formwork, substructure, superstructure, MSE barrier walls, precast girders, guys I'm not a civil engineer?!) that the impression again is that there's something to hide.
Various hobbyists and students (The Four Foot, Drone Zone Flyovers, AmpereBEEP, all seemingly dormant by now) have run circles around CAHSR with their citizen walkthroughs via drone or satellite. And paradoxically, these uncompensated workers are the ones who have shown us that the project is actually coming along decently these days.
Hey, are you guys going to have platform screen doors or gates at the stations, especially the ones with a through track?
Let's do this! Passenger Train Enthusiasts, Let's Go!! :))
Keep it up!!
It's great to see that ambitious infrastructure projects are still possible. To all the stans: how's Hyperloop going?
What a massive project. Love to see this coming together.
Mexico just finished 2700 miles on 5 years, And it’s have the base to reconstruct 18.000 miles in 12 years. Hopefully someday California become efficient building infrastructure.
SO EXCITING 🎉
I think high-speed rail is a great solution to California transportation needs. In fact, I think regular-speed rail could be a pretty good solution. Wish we had that between SoCal and NorCal. Much of the current "train" trip from L.A. to Sacramento is spent on a darn BUS! LosAngeles to Bakersfield via bus with Pure Anarchy Loading at Union Station. No reservations, no crowd control, late arrivals board first, handicapped passengers just have to wait. Whoever fights hardest gets on first and takes whatever seat they want. I hope the same people who run Anthrax, excuse me Amtrak, won't be in charge of any part of the HSR system.
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Thanks for the update, great to see progress being made!
Is the background music an homage to the decades long history of the project? 😅
🔥🔥 keep up the good work!
Is there any place where the differences and engineering decisions for each of these locations is described? Just seems like each of these have unique characteristics and I don't understand why they are not more consistent.
Each CP (1, 2-3, and 4) was built by a different contractor, who each designed and then built that segment. Going forward, CHSRA is going to have segments designed first before having contractors bid for them, which should reduce the cost and make construction happen faster.
There is still a lot of work to be done. Are they sure they're going to be able to test in 2028?
3.5 years is still quite a bit of time. After the earthworks and bridges/viaducts are finished, installing the rails and catentary shouldn't take too long, so testing of the track could begin relatively early. Stations and maintenance buildings will probably take a bit longer and won't be finished by 2028. At least, that's what I imagine.
Trainset testing in 2028 will also be done at the national transportation center in Pueblo, Colorado, so it won’t be on the California tracks.
@@Trojans5050 CAHSR trains are to be tested at up to 242 mph. That's likely faster than Pueblo can handle, making the California HSR tracks the only place trains will be able to safely go that fast.
@@ChrisJones-gx7fcah great point. I just googled it and the max speed at Pueblo is listed at 156mph. They likely can do some testing there but you are right, full speed will need to be done on the mainline.
@@Trojans5050Dynamic testing has to be done on the actual track for long distances. They should be able to do it on the first 119 mile section. They shouldn't have to wait until all the 171 miles are finished to do the dynamic testing.
finally another one
also what about the section from shafter to bakersfield, on google maps you can see that the construction stops somewhere just north of shafter but the segment all the way to bakersfield is supposed to be open by 2030. is it just gonna start soon and be construction package 5?
They got the federal grant funding for finishing the final bits to Bakersfield and Merced awarded this past December, which was the green light to start final design and land aquisition. It's fine that the end bits will be following behind the rest of it by a couple of years, since they need about that amount of time for train testing, which that they can complete on the part that's already under construction now.
The $40B price tag advertised on the ballot seems a little bait & switch at this point.
I'm not a California resident but love transparency!
Yes and yeah of course California High-Speed Rail in California.😮
Keep going you can do it.
The snails pace of this build is mind boggling. This project will take another 50 years and $5 trillion to complete.
All the money is just spent on fighting lawsuits and land aquisition
It will take about 10-20 years and $100 Billion
@@Maxzatlinwhich is still insane how other countries can do it for 70% less and 10 times faster
@@ll4680 yeah a lot of boomer and greanpeace environmentalists oppose construction as a principle even if it is good for the environment so CEQA reflects that
This is a great update with good drone video and clear concise information about the various CAHSR construction projects. This project gets more impressive, the more I know about it. Well done.
It’s great seeing it continue to take shape and get ever closer to tracks and eventual trains. It feels more tangible with every update.
Where can I get the 2024 High Speed Rail Progress Report soundtrack?
1 step closer to the Forever Money Pit as planned. 😢
Nice to see the USA building high speed rail. Do you have a video showing the number of people that California High-Speed Rail can move away from domestic flights and/or long freeway drives?
What sort of integration is there going to be with your railway stations and local public transport? Are any of your stations rail hubs? Are you able to put in passive provision to support the reopening of a disused rail line or conversion of a freight line into a metro line that could have an interchange with any of your stations?
In the Central Valley, there is a project dubbed "Cross Valley Corridor" to establish regional rail in the area near the Kings-Tulare HSR station. The north end of the Central Valley segment in Merced is planned to be well integrated with the existing and expanded regional rail service for onward travel to Sacramento and the Bay Area. When the project gets to San Francisco and Los Angeles, those areas will be well integrated with existing networks, sharing corridors and stations with existing regional rail services.
Almost none of the above.
The San Francisco Bay Area has and Los Angeles area each have over 10 million people.
This high speed rail project will connect Merced to Bakersfield. Merced is a small town and Bakersfield is a medium sized town in the mostly rural and agricultural central Valley which is flat.
To connect Los Angeles and San Francisco they have to cross mountains. Here it's already been 16 years and they struggling to cross rural roads and highways. When it comes to mountains and underground urban construction - they will be in for a real challenge.
Merced and Bakersfield are both extremely car-centric cities with limited public transportation.
To be effective, they need options for people to actually be able to use it frequently for things like commuting. Not a once in 3 year trip to Hollywood.
The Northern Central Valley is full of working class people who commute to the SF Bay Area because they can't afford to live there. Bakersfield is full of people who commute to Los Angeles because they can't afford to live there. Then we shame the lower class for having cars because they can't afford million dollar houses. Meanwhile the millionaires in those expensive houses don't want public transport because they don't feel safe on it.
this aint never gonna be finished
It literally will be mostly finished in 2030s and first phase maybe even in 2028 or 2029
@@MarxistNurseNot if the funding dries up. If I am not mistaken this project still needs $90-$100billion to be completed! Hell there some sort of investigation going on in Congress right now with one of the senators point blank asking how they planned to find the needed funds.
Cool
It is a train all right: A Gravy train for Fresno contractors!
BUILD BABY BUILD LETS GOOO
California: wants high speed rail. Also California: wants everyone else to pay for it.
I hope the stations actually turn out like the renders, but if its anything like transit in America you just know it'll be a station in the middle of a gigantic parking lot.
Is the project still on time, and within original budget?
Interviewed a guy a few years ago that said he was working on the HSR. He said that they (his bosses/Supervisor) would routinely tell the workers NOT to do any work some days, and they would still clock in and out and collect the days pay. Obviously some sort of union tactics to prolong jobs and get more money. Guess it worked with this thing being billions over budget. Wonder if there are actually people overseeing the work? And progress? How do you let people collect an entire day's pay, without noticing no work has been done?
Interesting, Japan took 5 years starting in 1959 to build it's 320 mile Shinkansen line. When did this project start again?
It hasn't started. Is just another scam by the California's Democrats.
Where did all the money go that we voted on to repair the Oroville Dam? Nobody knows. That money disappeared and then several years later the damn failed.
I live in Fresno and the hsr is only a mile from here, lots of viaducts but I have never seen any workers and over the years it seems that nothing has changed.
Will the fare comparable with that of the Southwest Airlines?
good luck with those lofty station designs, like every project i've seen the client opts for something drastically plain looking to save on costs.
shit has to be better than the shinkansen for the amount of time its taking to build
If it ever gets built, how much are tickets going to cost? Using Eurostar as a comparison, I would guess that a ride from LA to SF will cost about $200-300 one way.
One thing you will never see on these cheerleading sites is how much money this would lose every year in the unlikely event of it ever being completed. The original proposition assured voters that losses would not be subsidized. If they are honest about that, tickets will run into the many hundreds if not thousands. Obviously they won't be honest, so they will be subsidizing more billions operating it every year. I honestly think that the democrats know what a money pit this is, and they are just trying to keep this on life support until Trump is elected so they can then close it down and somehow blame him. Their target audience will swallow it whole.
These elevated tracks do take a long time.
seems like a lot of columns and girders that slow things down and raise the cost. there's no way to run the rail on the ground?
Great.... let's get it done!
I always want California High-Speed Rail in California and I always love California High-Speed Rail in California.😮
And it should be paid by California people in California.
@@onetwothreeabc I look forward to your backward state bankrupting itself trying to maintain its federally funded highway system.
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@@onetwothreeabcI'm OK with CA's tax dollars coming back home instead of paying for Brett Favre's daughter's volleyball stadium in Mississippi. With money set aside to help prevent poverty in one of the statistically most impoverished states in the country. :(
@@mrj8648 I totally support you to audit more on how Fed money is spent in general.
But tax dollars ain’t “coming back” just to one state. If you think CA is paying too much tax to Fed, you can push for a national tax reduction.
I can fly from anywhere in the LA area to Oakland for $56, and get there in a fraction of the time. Who really NEEDS this?
More updates please!
What was the original projected cost, and what is the current cost as of this year?
😂 the answer to both is too much
I would advise against Alstom. Just look at the mess that is the Ottawa LRT in Canada. It's only in the past year that the many issues with the trains seem to have finally been sorted out (bad wheels bearings, square wheels, derailments). Even then, we still don't trust these trains.
Did I mention that the LRT trains are unusually slow considering the cruising speed they were suppose to accomplish? And the doors are still extremely fragile.
As the pathetic woke CAHSRA hems and haws BLW has already correctly chosen Siemens.
Keep up the great work! We need more trains and less cars.
Flat terrain all around,4500-7000m radius optimum for 320kmh +
I like how the show construction workers when mentioning jobs created. However, look at all the wages being paid and see who is getting much of it. Not welders or concrete workers.
At 6:26, the dude's ear protection wasn't even touching his ear.
Don't listen to the nattering nabobs of negativity. Push the project forward to completion.
It's so funny watching California bankrupt itself with this project and not even get a single mile of running track out of it🤣
@@westside213 so funny looking at out-of-staters thinking the state that gives more money to the feds than it receives is going bankrupt because of one underfunded, relativity small infrastructure project
Agreed. It is critically important that America supports this project.
Yea don't stop wasting money, I mean it's only been 15 years and we still have essentially zero progress...and the cost has quadrupled....but you go California! You can do it by year 2100 we are rooting for you!
guess which one will be completed first, India HSR or CA HSR?
Of course, India’s. Despite being 503 km (312 miles) all viaduct route and 21 km tunnel (5km undersea), 153 km viaduct with 300 km foundation/pier work already complete. Construction started in 2019 and will complete by 2027-28. Cost is also USD 20B.
Trick question! California will never finish - costs have already spiralled out of control and this section is far-and-away the easiest/cheapest portion. Tunnelling into Bay Area/LA will involve multiples-higher costs.
Both will finish in 2028 .. and both will be success ..
@@unclekanaamcuttingwalahai332 2028? Oh dear. They won't even have begun tunneling - and by that time, their absurd lowball cost estimates will be a fantasy.
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb there is olympic in 2028.. so I think its possible they will work their @ss off before olympic to finish the project..and I dont think US should think about cost ..
Why is the track so wavy, won't that slow the train down?
I live in Southern California how can I get a job on this project
In 2070, when they start building the SD to LA section. You can be the crane spotter for any low flying cars.
@@plainsight7816 😂
Still On Track For 2033!😂🎉
Seems like by the time they finish it It will already be time to refurbish it.