Some lawmakers have expressed concerns that making that segment single-track may not actually make the train high-speed.
Because train math? It was only high speed if you summed the speed of both trains ;-)
Less about speed and more capacity, single track means you can’t run trains in both directions at once past each other.
You could… but only once. Though you might have me by explicitly stating “past each other.”
I was always bad at the train math problems T_T
As long as there’s only a few trains and enough sidings or stations with double tracks ……
…… it’s still a fucking stupid idea and shows you how desperate they are to complete anything with the little remaining money
you can thank the hyperloop for delaying it for about a decade.
You gotta love the irony of this colossal boondoggle…
Single track is a scam to fuck over train lines. It should never be done.
Don’t worry, I’m fairly certain it won’t be 😌
Pretty bold to just deviate from the State approved plan and bypass Merced. Guess they didn’t pay off the right people.
From various streamers focusing on that project, they’re desperate to find a way to complete something with the money they have.
There’s been a lot of time and money sunk into this project, but being stingy now forces them to entertain poor choices. This is a transformative project and We need to just fund this properly. This is time for the rest of us to step in with adequate federal financing to complete it rather than saying it is the state’s problem
As far as I understand it, their worst problems were in the planning, permitting, land acquisition stages and they’re doing better with construction but have no possible way to catch up on time or money.
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Has been in the planning phase forever
no thanks to musks hyperloop scam to delay it, long enough for elaine chao to block it during trumps fist term. it shouldve started back then,.
Remember: the last time California had great public transportation infrastructure it was all completed by the private sector… #facts
And it was destroyed by the private sector.
In my opinion it was destroyed by government.
Please hear me out:
Think about it: all public transportation was privatized. Yet road infrastructure was implemented, funded, planned by the government (local,state and federal). The cars themselves were private but it was the government that decided to build the road and highway system.
The government then subsidize the fuel industry to benefit the car industry so that their road investment would be put in good use. The future for Americans at this time was the automobile since the government was investing so much money into it.
At the same time the private sector public transportation were hemorrhaging riders and the companies had no investment opportunities. The government looked at their service and thought it was old fashioned and decided they were better of going bankrupt.
If it wasn’t for citizens rising up to rescue the remnants of these public transportation companies by making them public sector they would all be extinct. The governments continued to not invest into these entities until the 70s and even then it was sporadic and lackluster. The same government also had to be stopped by citizens in building highways in neighborhoods. So many neighborhoods were destroyed for these highways and only a few were prevented from getting built, all because people rose up!
Finally we go to present day. Government continues to provide lackluster service and we see poor investment in our public transportation. Governments continue to mainly focus on roads and car centric development.
I challenge people to look at Europe and their relative success in nationalizing rail tracks but privatizing rail service. It’s not perfect but it’s possible!
So this is my view on why government is to blame for where we are in our car centric hellscape, USA
Yes… but….
From your own source:
All of those items listed have the government involved I just highlighted the blaring ones
Everybody knows that private-public partnerships start because the private sector wants to pocket public funds. Public transit is probably the clearest example of how private interests will intentionally ruin public projects and then blame the government for it. Elon Musk is famous for it, with his Boring Company basically stealing money set aside for public transit to make a shitty fire hazard tunnel in Las Vegas. Any time a public transit project gets announced in California, Elon Musk derails all conversation by insisting one of his whack-ass tunnels could do the job.
I understand the sentiment but I think you have it misconstrued… The reason private-public partnerships start is because politicians (government) want to pocket the extra cash. Nobody is forcing these politicians to agree to these deals. These politicians are just a reflection of the idiots that Americans are:
That is a problem with capitalism, not governance. Capitalism is the system that sets incentives for corruption here. The private sector is inherently going to try and do everything it can to maximize profits, including subverting governments that try to regulate them.
For society to work properly, limitations and regulations need to be forced onto corporations and the only effective way to do that is through governance.
