How $3.4B in federal aid will help in effort to connect Caltrain and high-speed rail to SF 

Dunno If I would go that far - and at the end of the day these projects are mainly about not having to spend even more to increase road and air capacity through some of the worst bottlenecks around the state, which is what would need to be done If there was no CAHSR.

It too was over budget at the time of it build. Look it up. Nothing massive happens without its controversies. Even the US highway system which people constantly over look. BTW, which is far, far more than 1800 miles.

What are you talking about?! Don't you know there are NO miles in Japan?!

It doesn’t really matter whether it is the future or not. The fact is we have a vision of monorails looking really futuristic and the Disney parks take advantage of that despite the downs.

Two different agencies, buddy! CAHSR already got funding , so they’ll likely have to finish the central CA segments, before they can get more. Transbay authority is in charge of this SF Portal project

@@jbentajado90 which just goes to Show how stupid the staging of CAHSR is. They could have instead begun by bringing the SF-SJ-Gilroy section up to 110mph or faster with overtaking tracks and fully grade separated from Traffic under wires, and then done the same in LA for Burbank-LA-Annaheim. These 2 Projects would have served Metro area populations of 25 million people, instead of the 3-4million that will be served by the current staging, and would have won support for more funding to scale Up HSR for the expensive difficult connection through the Mountain passes. Instead trying to please people they have a worse Project that serves fewer people taking longer and very difficult to ever finish.

They’ll Connect CAHSR to Gilroy First

Yup, but looks like they will complete this one so the gilroy part will be constructed!❤

which just goes to Show how stupid the staging of CAHSR is. They could have instead begun by bringing the SF-SJ-Gilroy section up to 110mph or faster with overtaking tracks and fully grade separated from Traffic under wires, and then done the same in LA for Burbank-LA-Annaheim. These 2 Projects would have served Metro area populations of 25 million people, instead of the 3-4million that will be served by the current staging, and would have won support for more funding to scale Up HSR for the expensive difficult connection through the Mountain passes. Instead trying to please people they have a worse Project that serves fewer people taking longer and very difficult to ever finish

I vaguely remember that Union Pacific refused to give permission for the HSR to run on or near its track, meaning that the HSR to Gilroy would need to spend decades in litigation and billions of dollars to buy off Union Pacific. The rich people in the Peninsula also promised to send lawyers to delay things as much as possible. So the government decided to not start on the Northern California section of track since it would be tied up too long in lawsuits, and they wanted to spend the stimulus money as soon as possible to stimulate the economy. In any case, the current priority seems to be Bakersfield to San Jose, but through Modesto, completely bypassing Gilroy.

@@my2iu thats not true, at least I havent seen anything of the sort; the line from San Jose to Gilroy is only single track but CAHSR are still planning to electrify and double track it, then run beyond Gilroy to a new alignment turning east to head inland. CAHSR will be able to bring the line through SJ to SF up to 110mph without removing the level crossings, whilst the section from SJ to Gilroy could potentially be faster with the LXs removed

@@kyletopfer7818 Yes, the official plan is to go through Gilroy. But looking up the old news reports, Union Pacific objected to sharing its right of way with high speed rail back in 2008. I think maybe the CEO was Republican or something or was looking for a big payout, so he objected to sharing the right of way with HSR back then. And that took a few years to figure out. In any case, the final official planned route through Gilroy and the Pacheco pass ends up using way more tunneling and way more cost than expected. So the previous governor extended the HSR to Merced and funded an extension of the Ace train from San Jose to Merced, which makes the Gilroy-Pacheco Pass section a much lower priority now.

For some reason their seems to be an assumption with projects that construction should not start until all funds are secure. But it’s a terrible way to build as costs go up while waiting. I know with tunneling you can’t just stop halfway, but you can get funds to build an empty tunnel and wait to put the rails in later.

Brightline west has the advantage of having their ROW already acquired in the center of the highway and they are not actually going to either downtowns if I am not mistaken. All this makes building the project multitudes easier. CAHSR is just a much more challenging project.

@@ryanfoster5902 That's true. However, Brightline will build a line through Cahon Pass and that would be an excellent option for CAHSR to join in. Some day, they still can build the route through Santa Clarita. Brightline wants to terminate at Cucamonga; CAHSR could build the rest to LAUPT.

Are you for real, you want to abandon Ukraine and Europe to Putin?

@@kyletopfer7818 Well what do you want ? Peace or high speed trains ??

@@lassepeterson2740 ...Peace? Costs for HSR went up due in no small part to the Ukraine war, of course.

You wouldn't love it so much if you had to pay a train ticket that reflects the actual cost of high speed rail. Air travel would be cheaper.

Pay it by Californian people’s tax in California.

You wouldn't like driving if you had to pay tolls for the full maintenance cost of mile of road you drive on or paid the full, unsubsidized cost of gasoline plus the cost to mitigate climate change.

@@fb39ca4 Actually, we are paying above the cost of gasoline. The government adds taxes onto the gasoline, knowing that people will blame gas companies and not government for increased price. California adds $1.43 to each gallon of gas, and currently legislation points to a future of $2.00 tax per gallon. As for gas subsidies, they are not subsidies; they are tax deductions and tax credits. As for road maintenance, gas tax is supposed to pay for road maintenance. So we already are paying for roads. Unfortunately, a large percentage of gas tax is diverted to projects unrelated to road, like mass transit or rail. This undermines the user-pay/user-benefit principle of a gas tax. If you drive, you should pay for your road, and not someone else's BART ticket.

@@lambertlum1087that governments often shuffle around their finances is definitely an issue at times, but as someone who like usable roads you should be happy about that considering that the total tax revenue of all the gas taxes is about 53 Billion USD while the total road expenditure is at about 206 Billion USD. Meaning that the gas taxes alone wold never cover that. And the since as you said the Gas industry is predominantly aided in tax incentives it is hard to actually pin point how much revenue the governments are actually withholding from collecting but estimates range quite a bit between 10 - 50 billion. Not particularly the singns of a self sufficient mode of transport.

In countries like the US, there are tons of regulations, environmental impact clearance, lawsuits and land acquisitions to go through. Its just slower here.

@@vitasoy1437And opposition from idiots who think this is a waste of time.

You should give both

“Fighting homelessness” 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

Add that with the TSA lines & once you get on a plane you have to wait over an Hour For it to depart & CAHSR will Connect La - S.F under 3 hours

I guess we're gonna conveniently ignore climate change, the millions who live in the central valley, the time it takes to get to the airport and go though TSA, the billions of dollars used to build and maintain aircraft infrastructure, and reality.

They could also deal with security lines, flight delays, and idiots acting like children on every flight. Fly if you want, but let everyone else have a choice.

Do you know that Boeing planes has a lot of incidents lately?

I do not like nancy

This woman is evil

Why are you like this? Who hurt you?

I think because multiple people have gotten stabbed on the metro in LA

@@enaibee1661 people just like to hype up public safety concerns because they are ideologically opposed to any kind of shared space or public resource. They are intolerant but they want to act like that is necessary for their own safety instead of just acknowledging that they are probably just bigots.

@@williamcondon7729Exactly like as if Caltrain is BART

@@JermaniBurroughs that doesn’t make any sense

I live in north bay area. Every person i knew that lived in the city hated themselves and the city, and didnt stay longer than 9 months. These politicans just want a construction job just so they can skimm money off the top. They deserve to "get a giant birthday cake" ;))))

fiction

@@forrestcharles9050 liar

Caltrain Electrified their mainline between S.F - San Jose with help from California

La & SF aren't nowhere.

@@kim.jong.skillz That ain't gonna happen

@@kim.jong.skillz The reference to train to nowhere comes from the high speed rail link of Merced to Bakersfield. The high speed train starts at nowhere and goes to nowhere, with not enough ridership to operate profitably. They plan to open the rail link in 2026.

this is literally funding a downtown SF connection…

@@justsamoo3480 Downtown SF is dead

Thank you for taking accountability

Hope you enjoyed paying those state taxes for nothing!

You should thank Caltrans for not prioritizing CAHSR

I voted yes, and continue to completely support it.

@@mrxman581 lol thank you for your honesty, but also why continue to support something that never was developed?

yes cause apparently homeless people take high speed rail and intercity trains like the Northeast, get a grip