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Re:High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance i... by inferiorhuman on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:07PM (#32528016)
That's already happening. Caltrain's finished electrifying their route and is currently conducting clearance testing of the electric rolling stock. Electric revenue service is expected is by Autumn 2024. The other big upgrade Caltrain got out of HSR is that a number (all?) of the at-grade crossings were removed. That's a huge win.
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Re:High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance i... by pstuart on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:09PM (#32534819)
Ok, that's a start. But my point is that US rail treats passenger traffic as a second class citizen and it doesn't have to be that way.

Mandating Positive Train Control and adding in track to allow better multiplexing of traffic could be done for a fraction of the HSR budget.

I think this should be done at a national level (nationalize the rail lines and invest in infrastructure to better utilize a very constrained resource). Yeah, crazy talk.

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Re:High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance i... by trthomps on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:12PM (#32528051)
The next major investment is the capital corridor route needs to be purchased by the state and then electrified between San Jose and Sacramento via Oakland. That would give CAHSR a route to run on between SF and SAC once there's a second transbay tube with standard gauge tracks.
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