Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles

Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @10:55AM (#40145117)

I think they're referring to Bakersfield and Merced

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by nytesky on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:09PM (#40146085)

Yes I thought I was replying to a thread about Bakersfield and Merced.

LA to SFO would be worthwhile but probably much harder.

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by eitally on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:36PM (#40147375)

The ultimate plan is LA->SJ, which is a reasonable compromise and avoids a lot of the reasons why connecting to SF directly via HSR is impractical (it would essentially require a complete reworking of Caltrain to accommodate HSR trains, because there's no alternative anyone would accept to build another parallel rail line up the peninsula).

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by Fatnino on Thursday April 25, 2024 @05:05AM (#40155152)

There used to be a rail line up the coast.

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by stephen_g on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:36PM (#40175947)

Not sure what you mean - California HSR trains will go into San Francisco as part of Phase 1 (which is really the second phase, the Initial Operating Segment (IOS) I guess is like Phase 0). They're doing electrification and upgrades of Caltrain there to accommodate it.

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