Posted on 04/10/2016 8:47:18 AM PDT by jessduntno
The report noted that "the Bakersfield to Palmdale section includes a variety of constraints that pose significant technical and environmental challenges, including seismic faults, steep grades through the Tehachapi Mountains and flood plains." The route could require as many as 59 grade separations for highways.
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The Bullet Train was a Ballot Measure that the CA Voters Approved. Jerry Brown is just doing his Duty as King.
I think we should push a Ballot Initiative requiring everyone has a Solar Powered Flying Car paid for by the State of CA.
It would have run right down the middle using elevated Prefab Track so there would have been no Right of Way issues.
Would have been very cheap to build and maintain.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda...
“The Bullet Train was a Ballot Measure that the CA Voters Approved. Jerry Brown is just doing his Duty as King.”
It was a measure passed by Democrats, not voters. Most of whom were illegal aliens brought in by Union buses. But, true enough, it was passed by “voters.” So, while technically a project CA “voted” for, it became such a priority that we had to sweeten it by Feds and new methods of tax raiding.
In 1996 the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA), was established to begin formal planning in preparation for a ballot measure in 1998 or 2000.
The ballot measure was originally scheduled to be put before voters in the 2004 general election; however, the state legislature voted twice to move it back, first to 2006, and finally to 2008 when 52.7% of voters approved the issuing of $9 billion in bonds for high speed rail in Proposition 1A, a measure to construct the initial segment of the network.
The measure authorized $9.95 billion in bond sales for the construction of the core segment between San Francisco and Los Angeles/Anaheim, and an additional $950 million for improvements on local railroad systems, which will serve as feeder systems to the planned high-speed rail system.
On January 28, 2010, the White House announced that California would receive $2.35 billion of its ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) request, of which $2.25 billion was allocated specifically for California High Speed Rail, while the rest was designated for conventional rail improvements.
Over the course of 2010 and 2011, the federal government awarded the Authority a further $4 billion in high-speed rail funding, mainly from states that had rejected it such as Florida.
Consider the potential millions to be made developing new bedroom communities in the Southern San Joaquin Valley and you may have your answer.
Bet some or most of the routing could be have been done using existing median xway strips similar to how Chicago uses its subway lines. But nobody makes any money off of that when they do it that way.
Thanks for the Simpsons pic. Says it all. Absolutely monorail!
California’s population pattern does not favour such an “investment”.
Boston to D.C. would make sense, possibly, if r/w could be secured.
There are other potential corridors. Tampa-Orlando-Miami might work. Chicago - New York if you could take it down to 4 hours (from the current 18.5 hours) would compete with air. San Diego to LA in under an hour would draw passengers (folks are already willing to take the existing rail service over driving). LA - Vegas might work.
What would probably sell better than bullet trains are auto train services.
It’s going to bifurcate (separate) the communities wherever it’s built. That’s what railroad tracks do.
Friggin idiots.
What about the Texas Triangle? Your name indicates you know Texas.
The terrain is probably favorable. (I’m one of those easterners that thinks Texas is flat)
“It’s going to bifurcate (separate) the communities wherever it’s built. That’s what railroad tracks do. Friggin idiots.”
These are not your ordinary idiots. These are CA Democrap idiots. I think they want to avoid any possible “shaming” by being able to say someone is from the “wrong side of the tracks.”
No matter where they put it, it’s going to bifurcate something. There is always going to be a “wrong side of the tracks.”
SB 535 Disadvantaged Communities (Map)
http://oehha.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=dae2fb1e42674c12a04a2b302a080598
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