Gavin re-committed to HSR!https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1095445893011013632 …
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Why all the pandering to Central Valley when it's actually the metro coastal regions lifting California up and forward?
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if you read the business plan, it's actually basically a plan to unlock the land of Central Valley for residential development/housing. Workers commuting from Merced to jobs in San Jose.
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I think he thinks of this as building the "spine" of that connection first, and then getting buy-in later for building future segments, but the issues that are there now - expensive terrain, litigious roadblocks, ballooning costs - will still be there later.
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the Central Valley portion is the "easiest" in terms of terrain, I'd think. Taking rail through the Pacheco Pass is always going to be super-difficult.
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Going on gut here, but if feels like a direct, single-stop connection between SF, SJ, and DTLA that travels along the right-of-way already established by I-5 would be a viable alternative to air travel and that anything else would be be too time consuming to compete for most ppl.
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Also, the idea of using long range trains to make residential developments in the central valley viable is awful because it still requires commutes of soul destroying length, and is just a sop to NIMBYs hell-bent on making sure SF, MV etc. are never rezoned to Barcelona spec.
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Easier/ cheaper to build there...then with a working “prototype” connect it to the Bay Area & LA.
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Sacramento?
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Opportunistic haircut trying to have it both ways. Needs to be built 30 years ago.
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