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Recently, California High Speed Rail Authority officials announced plans that, in effect, may delay all construction most HSR infrastructure. In an updated grant application, the CAHSRA announced that it will prioritize building two new ..... Sometimes it takes a long time to see through the forest. Here Palo Alto Councilman Klein really has finally taken the right approach. Apparently the Palo Alto rail sub-committee will vote on this Thursday and it may proceed to full ...
Infrequent diarist Daneel carefully analyses the causes for the rocky start-up of Taiwan's new HighSpeedRail system to refute conservative arguments against HSR as we come to the End of the tunnel for THSR. (claude) ..... diary, A cautionary tale of corn and corruption in California, which at first got a lot of tips, some recs, virtually no comments. So I started to hope Diary Rescue would pick it up(tomorrow -- I think it missed today's cutoff). ...
FYI: Our freight rail system in the US is apparently the best in the world. This article asserts that high-speed passenger rail would ruin the US system. While I don't entirely agree with the premise, it brings up many valid points to consider. Reply to this comment ..... I'm all for spending for transit, (bus, train, HSR), but we need to get a better 'bang for the buck' if transit is ever going to capture more than a percent or two of total trips in this country. ...
The entire engineering effort for the California high-speed rail system is prescribed by a long list of technical requirements, which taken together form the system specification. The requirements are prepared ..... A bit off subject, at today's Board meeting (9/01/2010), vanArk claimed they had had very fruitful talks with the UPRR. It will be really interesting to see just what that means. How many times have we heard the Authority claim this. 01 September, 2010 20:20 ...
Like it or not the local economy of Southern California needs the Ports (Truck and Rail traffic) Just doing rail and only rail to handle the demand is wholly inefficent in one regional area and time consuming as it requires more intermodal facilities/stations along the way. .... If you want to make it easier to take rail between L.A. and Long Beach, how about grade separating more sections of the blue line? or increasing capacity on that line and making it heavy rail? ...
The study presented at the Orange County HSR event is available as Thinking Ahead: High Speed Rail in California. [Reply]. StevieB Reply: August 28th, 2010 at 12:13 pm. Parking is a very important part of the study. .... This is a large part of the reason that freight is limited to local service on the Corridor today; when freight cars were smaller, and speeds somewhat lower, this was a major freight road as well as handling a huge passenger load, including through trains ...
The fact is that people will drive on the highway, take the HSR, and take commuter flights. The question is what will the size of the market be for each? Planners break those options down and examine factors such as what type of traveler are you, ..... One poll released today has eMeg up by 8% over Jerry Brown. Admittedly, the people at Rasmussen are GO(B)P hacks but if you want to see high speed rail built in CA, it is essential to vote for Jerry Brown this November. ...
The San Jose Mercury News, previously a rail booster, asks ?who is going to pay for this turkey anyway?? Continuing questions about the viability and sensibility of the California high-speed rail plan that was approved by voters in 2008 .... As a Florida resident I would submit that HSR in Florida is the greatest boondoggle since the ill fated cross Florida barge canal (defunded by President Nixon). Florida and its cities are too spread out for effective rail service and ...
The idea of stopping high-speed rail (HSR) in San Jose and having HSR passengers transfer to Caltrain continues to be proposed by some along the Peninsula. Unfortunately, these people are not thinking through the implications for ...... Caltrain today runs three stopping patterns: local, ?limited stop? and baby bullet. HSR on the Peninsula will have some equivalent of baby bullet (but not perhaps the same stations! Mountain View?), San Jose-SF non-stop and LA-SF non-stop. ...
It's a Raleigh story, but it's one Durhamites need to be paying attention to: the opposition swelling up in urban City of Oaks neighborhoods over the state and federal government's high-speed rail proposal linking Raleigh and Richmond. ... That's before any construction even starts. If we want to see HSR in NC, there's going to have to be some give and take. We won't get everything we want and get HSR. Posted by: Todd P | August 31, 2010 at 09:13 PM. Erik Landfried ...