It's still 10 years from road bed completioni the valley. They have to add the rails crossings etc. when this is done, it will be obsolete. As far as I can tell they still don't own all the land for the valley segment yet.
they should just fund it more so it actually can get done efficiently and open sooner. the shinkansen tokyo to osaka line was similarly expensive and it was complained abt during construction, but you don't hear that anymore, you hear "wow, japan has the best transit in the world"
these city councils would rather waste billions of dollars and have nothing to show for it than spend what they need to get it done and have good infrastructure.
@@-divinetragedy Japan is very different. The problem is there is no funding available. CA is flat broke. They are letting all the criminals out of jail to save money. I really can't think of a way rail would be convenient for normal people. I would have to drive 45 min to a station, then leave my car to get broken into.
@@Mulelicious I don't think California's struggles building hsr come from being broke, and it's prison overcrowding population stems from the U.S's long sentences for nonviolent crimes that have resulted in the U.S having the largest incarcerated population in the world. I mean, California has an incarceration rate of 494 per 10000 people vs Japan's 45 per 10000. Recall that if Cali was it's own country, it would be the third largest economy in the world. If you can't think of a way rail can be convenient for normal people, you're having some trouble thinking, as not only is rail used by millions of people across the world daily for their daily commute, but it's also not rly that difficult to imagine bussing or biking to a rail station and then getting to work ahead of traffic. If you don't have a rail station near you, it just speaks to why we need to expand the awful public transit system in california. California's main problems with building rail are zoning restrictions, nimbys who campaign against public infrastructure in their neighborhoods, the low density of it's cities, and the strange public expectation for such infrastructure to make a profit (even though the interstate system doesn't make anything and costs way more, and is less efficient). It's hard to explain public transit to someone who doesn't want it to work and doesn't care to use it.
i love this program. in the past, notably during Seattle's failed attempt at a monorail network, we've relied on choosing one from a pool of contractors, which ends up giving them leverage during financing negotiations (a big part of why Seattle's was never finished) that are nullified by contracting these small businesses with the extra amazing benefit of injecting life into cali's SBs instead of multinational megacorps.
Nov 15, 2023 posted on may 22, 2024-not a good example of high-speed operation.
It's still 10 years from road bed completioni the valley. They have to add the rails crossings etc. when this is done, it will be obsolete. As far as I can tell they still don't own all the land for the valley segment yet.
they should just fund it more so it actually can get done efficiently and open sooner. the shinkansen tokyo to osaka line was similarly expensive and it was complained abt during construction, but you don't hear that anymore, you hear "wow, japan has the best transit in the world"
these city councils would rather waste billions of dollars and have nothing to show for it than spend what they need to get it done and have good infrastructure.
@@-divinetragedy Japan is very different. The problem is there is no funding available. CA is flat broke. They are letting all the criminals out of jail to save money. I really can't think of a way rail would be convenient for normal people. I would have to drive 45 min to a station, then leave my car to get broken into.
@@Mulelicious I don't think California's struggles building hsr come from being broke, and it's prison overcrowding population stems from the U.S's long sentences for nonviolent crimes that have resulted in the U.S having the largest incarcerated population in the world. I mean, California has an incarceration rate of 494 per 10000 people vs Japan's 45 per 10000. Recall that if Cali was it's own country, it would be the third largest economy in the world. If you can't think of a way rail can be convenient for normal people, you're having some trouble thinking, as not only is rail used by millions of people across the world daily for their daily commute, but it's also not rly that difficult to imagine bussing or biking to a rail station and then getting to work ahead of traffic. If you don't have a rail station near you, it just speaks to why we need to expand the awful public transit system in california. California's main problems with building rail are zoning restrictions, nimbys who campaign against public infrastructure in their neighborhoods, the low density of it's cities, and the strange public expectation for such infrastructure to make a profit (even though the interstate system doesn't make anything and costs way more, and is less efficient). It's hard to explain public transit to someone who doesn't want it to work and doesn't care to use it.
@@-divinetragedy California can't print money.
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i love this program. in the past, notably during Seattle's failed attempt at a monorail network, we've relied on choosing one from a pool of contractors, which ends up giving them leverage during financing negotiations (a big part of why Seattle's was never finished) that are nullified by contracting these small businesses with the extra amazing benefit of injecting life into cali's SBs instead of multinational megacorps.