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Re:Why Europe’s Trains Are So Much Better Than America's by jpatokal on Thursday September 10, 2015 @06:38PM (#10200998)
They are building the HSR into SF proper, and they're doing the obvious thing: using the existing Caltrain alignment from Millbrae into the city, terminating at the Transbay Transit Center (already under construction and build with this in mind).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/California_to...

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Re:Why Europe’s Trains Are So Much Better Than America's by ghaff on Thursday September 10, 2015 @06:46PM (#10201020)
Which is also the sensible thing--leaving aside other pro/con HSR arguments in general. It also doesn't seem to be what the article is arguing for.

That said, you start having lots of connections and the value of transit systems goes down. I was just looking last night and I'm told that the time to get from SFO to the Santa Clara Convention Center/Great America/Stadium is still about 2 hours which, while theoretically doable, isn't something I'm going to do.

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