A high-speed rail line in California is chugging along towards 2030 debut::The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority will soon begin accepting proposals from electric train manufacturers ahead of a proposed 2030 debut.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Once selected and constructed, the high-speed trains would top out at 242 mph while traversing a 171-mile starter segment connecting Central Valley’s Bakersfield and Merced

    Oh wow! In only 6.5 years, I’ll be able to get from 2/3 of the way to San Francisco to 3/4 of the way to Los Angeles very efficiently!

    I swear we’re going to be litigated into irrelevance with all this NIMBY idiocy.

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      That’s the easy stretch to complete. It’ll be another 15 to actually connect SF and LA.

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        But without main population centres is it going to be done successfully? Imo they should have started with one of the ends, so that at least there is a big trip destination.

        Too late for that now and I really hope it works out and we get a good example for north american high speed rail projects to point to despite everything.

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      Oh wow! In only 6.5 years

      Then again look it this way… Once the lining has been built it will serve California for centuries, just as the original built rail corridors have. The rail tech might change, but the cleared out suitably shallow contoured corridor remains. For centuries.

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        I hope you’re right, but having grown up in California, and being very familiar with NIMBY shit there as well as in the northeast… I don’t think you are.

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    I really hope they connect to SF or LA soon after. That train is going to be empty without one of those two cities.

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      What? It doesn’t go to LA or SF? What is the freaking point? All this will do is encourage more ticky tacky townhomes in the middle of nowhere along Highway 5.

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      “okay but what if single-occupancy trains where every possible destination has its own train yard that you can pay to leave your single occupancy train in? They would leave on your schedule and go where you’re going.”