CA High Speed Rail

[K1052]

Originally posted by: BeauJangles

Originally posted by: K1052
California has the highest ridership Amtrak line outside of the NE corridor.

Yea, I think it's worth the investment for a fully grade separated HSR system. It is absolutely perfect for the distances involved.

At 180 mph with one or two stops, you could go from San Francisco to LA in ~2.5 hours. When you factor in security lines, taxing, takeoffs, and landings, it would be at least as fast as riding a plane.

Altsom's new AGV is designed to run at 220+mph and use less energy doing it than the TGV trainsets.

 

[alphatarget1]

Airports should only be used for medium/long haul planes and not be clogged up with fvcking Southwest 737s and regional jets.

I'm not sure how biased their study was... But adjusting for population growth it might not be a bad idea to do HSR. I don't think you can ever go wrong with investment in public infrastructure.

Southwest killed the Texas high speed rail decades ago, I hate those fvckers.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft

Originally posted by: Ns1
Odd I was just looking at rail from LA -SF and in it's current landscape it is not feasible. At all.

If you want to call Oakland the SF Bay area then it is possible. There is no Amtrak station in SF anymore.

The new Transbay Transit Center in SF is being built to accommodate heavy rail/HSR.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

We need this here in California. It's time to start taking cars off the freeways and use public transportation. I hate carpooling to work and seeing all these people in SUVs driving around by themselves to get from one place to another. Even from Sacramento to LA, I see people just by themselves going on I-5.

 

[alphatarget1]

by the way: let's say the state wants to build an extra lane on I-5 to accomodate increasing traffic. That is most certainly NOT cheap to build and maintain. Pavements are expensive... I know because I study it

 

[alphatarget1]

Expanding freeways in a city like LA requires a lot of right of way acquisition, and stuff like that is most certainly NOT cheap.

 

[dirtboy]

The idea isn't to save money on trips from LA to SF, it's so people can live further away from LA & SF and commute to work by high speed rail. Those commuters would save money and get to work faster.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Or is it that bad to get on the road and drive down I-5?

Yes.

Seriously, have you even driven on that road? It's filled with morons. The trucks are annoying as fuck - since like half the way is 2 lanes they just pull right out in front of you to overtake some other truck that they are going .05 MPH faster than.

And yes there is the fact that it goes through LA and traffic is horrible there.

Oh, and have you ever been on the two lane portion of I5 when there is a wreck? You will no shit sit there a whole fucking day it seems. I was driving northbound once, heading to San Jose when I saw there was a wreck on the southbound lanes. I shit you not I drove 15 miles before the traffic was no longer stopped and backed up.

 

[idiotekniQues]

building high speed trains between major metro areas is a frickin great idea.