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- High-speed rail in California will completely transform passenger rail in the United States. As the California High-Speed Rail program has reached a major milestone, HNTB experts are sharing their insights on this exciting project and the future of travel.
The largest transportation infrastructure program currently underway in the United States, the California High-Speed Rail system will accelerate connectivity between the state’s mega-regions and serve as a testament to the power of high-speed systems.
The first phase of the high-speed project will run from San Francisco to Los Angeles, by way of the Central Valley. Once operational, the passengers will be able to travel between San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours, a stark contrast to the typical 10 hours by way of car.
With 119 miles of the California High-Speed Rail currently under active construction, the project is comprised of three Construction Packages. HNTB partnered with CAHSR as prime consultant and project construction manager on Construction Package 4 (CP 4). This segment is critical to the line’s overall success. It covers more than 22 miles and provides crucial rail guideway infrastructure that prepares the California High-Speed Rail Authority for the program’s next steps: track and systems installation.
Learn more about this high-speed rail project and HNTB's expertise bit.ly/3VrtSXW.
People love to complain about road work but love it when a new lane opens or a street is repaved. This is just another example of people complaining during construction but will end up loving it.
Same here, but widening roads doesn’t improve traffic. It makes it worse so that’s why we need other modes of transportation like HSR and actual good bike lanes and a complete network of them.
Well, it better get fucking built because how much has it cost California tax payers now and how overdue is it?
@Bbmangood San Francisco Chronicle reported the legislature considers scrapping the whole project due to reasonable expense estimates.
Gibber jabber..
@@gooser__43 if you're referring to the March 16th article, it also included this: "State leaders agreed to prioritize finishing construction in the Central Valley first, and the rail project’s supporters hope that the launch of interim service there will galvanize public support to finance the rest of the project."
And this: “It is critical that any funding approach be fully funded, and stable and predictable from year to year. This has not been done, and it is ever more important,” Thompson said. “We cannot emphasize too strongly that inaction by the Legislature and governor to identify an adequate and stable source of funding for the project is increasing its costs and hindering management’s control of the project.”
This project has never had the funding needed to be built in one go, nor has it had a stable source of funding beyond state cap & trade funds, which expire in 2030 but CHSRA leaders are pushing to get that extended to 2050. If it did have a stable funding source, one more than roughly $1 billion a year compared to the over $18 billion that Caltrans spent on freeways last year alone, then it would very likely be further along.
What an excellent video. This is the type of video that need to get out to the public. It's also nice to see many of the structures completed, specifically at 0:30, 3:35, and 4:17. I had no idea they had finished the guideway in that section. I find it also amazing how big those canals are. From the air, they don't look like much (obviously), but closer to ground definitely gives you the scale of it, if 2:10 is any indication.
Nice observations my friend.
@@timeforbeans Thank you sir. I can't wait until I can get my own drone footage of this project (that's if this government doesn't ban my drone).
I love taking Amtrak. I've gone all over the country many different lines and many different directions. I'm looking forward to the chance of taking the high speed train, but I know I will always enjoy a laid-back Amtrak ride.
The one thing that turned me off Amtrak was watching the semis pass us on the free way. It’s great when I’m in no hurry or not traveling to and fro job sites, but when I am, its just doesn’t seem like it pays off
@@Wolfgulfur Exactly why I'm glad I live in the Northeast. When Amtrak Acelas are running correctly, it's fun to see the trains wizzing past all the cars on I-95.
Fantastic! We need more videos like this to better inform the public about the benefits of the CAHSR project. Very exciting. Well done.
There is no benefit.
Want to argue n compare with Japan.
This is terrible idea.
I am glad the US is improving it's public transport system.
New high-speed rail and expanding the bus networks are a necessity in this day and age.
People expect projects to go over budget a small amount but when cost blowouts exceed a quarter of the original estimate for any project alarm bells should go off.
😎🇦🇺👍
Like many projects like this - the initial reluctance and criticism of costs are very quickly forgotten as soon as the tax paying public can take advantage of the services it provides.
Economics will force California to scrap HSR 🚈
Where do you put the tracks?
Ever heard of the Tehachapi loop?
You realize California is bigger than Japan, big enough that high speed rail actually loses money due to efficiency and energy costs?
It’s literally a bigger scam than elons hyperloop.
@@conanruisi When you say "california is bigger than japan" you mean distance between cities right? because Japan is about as long as the distance from the tip of florida to the tip of maine on the US eastern seaboard...
@@conanruisiThe tracks go on the guideway which in many cases, as you can see in the video, are complete.
@@RailFireProductions yeah 22.5 miles of it, high speed rail is only efficient when it goes hundreds of miles, and has hundreds of stops in between.
That’s the only reason why it works in Japan, there is no other country with a successful high speed rail system, because there is no other country as dense as Japan.
Not to mention, Japan had to make a ton of extremely expensive tunnels and shit to make it work, CA has to re appropriate private property and has to bore far more extreme tunnels than the Japanese ever did.
Better investment than the F35 or the space force
great work
I am so proud of these men who you have on this video, it makes me proud of the diversity of America. So many people of different ethnic backgrounds are involved. So impressive. I love it.
I hope im still alive when it opens. Im 20
Enjoy it after retirement 100% :)
Hopefully you’ll have made it out of California before it opens
The IOS will open in 5-7 years. You'll be fine.
I always want California High-Speed Rail in California and I always love California High-Speed Rail in California.😮
I’m excited to ride HSR 👍🏾
It’s nice to see some fellow colleagues working rail…it took so long to get HNTB to get into this market.
Yes and yeah of course California High-Speed Rail in California.😮
Why do we keep seeing videos of a mega project that has no current construction in progress?its been dormant for some time. I would love to see it get going again
what do you mean? there are currently about 120 miles of active construction happening right now.
How long?
Will it be electric or diesel powered ?
Almost certainly electric
Electric
Neither because it'll never be finished
Will enough people ride it when it's ready? I'll probably try it out to see what it's like, but I'd rather rent a car since it might be faster and gives me more flexibility at my destination.
CAHSR will have a top speed of 220mph. If your driving is faster than that, you're a danger to other drivers and should not be on the road.
My dude this project will be faster than flying from San Francisco to LA. There's no way you're driving it faster.
Yes 100%😮
What is it the farmers are growing in many of these shots ?
Mostly almonds. Central CA produces 80% of the almonds grown in the entire world.
@@joelbernard6347 Actually, a single county in the Central Valley produces over 70% of all almonds sold around the world. And there's an adjacent country that produces over 90% of all the cashews sold around the world.
This is pound for pound, the most productive agricultural land in the world, by far.
In addition to almonds, pistachios and walnuts are common to see in the valley as well. I look forward to riding these trains through the area when the trees are in full bloom.
You'll also see a lot of fields growing corn that's used as feed for the cattle ranches in the area.
150+ Crops are grown in Tulare County - Quarter of those are at least significant in output, but bulk of revenue is generated thru Trees, and least thru Veggies. On top of that, Dairy has roughly 350,000 head. Native to a small town in TC where Oranges & Olives are kings, relocated to L.A. then Desert Southwest, where fog is rare instead of dare. To that end, it will be *very* interesting to see what HSR is like in fog.
CAHSR has some of the most over-engineered bridges I've seen in a while even for high-speed rail. They could have gone for steel structures instead of concrete structures in a lot of the places and that would have saved time and money.
I wonder their design life.
most superstructure in CA is built with reinforced concrete. The states seismic requirements tend to force designers towards concrete rather than steel.
AT LEAST THEY CALLED that Movie guy
Who's going to ride it ?
mostly commuters who live in the central valley and work in SF or LA.
Anyone who dares tag the trains again, indentified, billed and arrested, its public property from taxes from people !
100 years later 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
it will be great IF its ever finished, look at the rest of the worlds rail building speed compared to here? they have a good team of management, lots of workers and complete projects fast, here its like having snails building it, already past due date, I live in Fresno, has taken years to build a viaduct with no track, no station and I have never seen a single worker. yes I would like to see it here but its soooo dam slow for construction.
We have high speed rail. It runs 160 MPH and it transports millions of people. It is the NEC. "While there is no single standard that applies worldwide, lines built to handle speeds above 250 km/h (155 mph) or upgraded lines in excess of 200 km/h (125 mph) are widely considered to be high-speed." The NEC meets both standards. CAHS will be another HS rail. Brightline West will be another one.
1. It runs 150 2. The average speed is 70 mph. While top-speed wise it is high speed rail, this is a pathetic average. Morocco's singular high speed line averages more than double and is built all-round to a true modern standard.
Technically, the NEC does not meet HSR standards today, but it will in the future as Amtrak has received a significant amount of new funding to help straighten out portions of the line so it can better take advantage of the new Acela trains which have had manufacturing issues and failed initial testing metrics.
CAHSR is on a whole different level. It's being designed from the ground up as the first true HSR line in the USA. It will be the preeminent HSR line in all of the Western hemisphere running at 220 mph. The NEC and BLW will be there, too, but far behind CAHSR in many ways.
@@VerdigrisTreesThe NEC currently doesn't meet HSR standards. And the average speed is terrible.
However, the newly approved BLW HSR line is being built as a true HSR line from the start, but it's being valued engineered to death resulting in an average speed of 101 mph. That's even worse for a train supposedly capable of 200 mph. The 219 mile trip between Rancho Cucamonga and Vegas shouldn't take 2 hours and 10 minutes. It should be more like 1 1/2 hours. Very disappointing.
@@mrxman581 On the one hand, you're right and I agree completely. On the other hand, it's still going to be a W for rail, as it still easily beats driving that distance even before factoring in the 15 traffic jam. Furthermore, taking the much longer view, that's an indirect point for CAHSR and, by extension, for the generally superior model of railways as a public service as opposed to a for-profit business: when you can look at BLW and see that its privately funded for-profit business model is directly responsible for it being technically inferior to CAHSR, that makes it more likely that future HSR projects operate closer to the CAHSR model, and makes it easier to get CAHSR style projects done in the future.
I will say that one thing I wish CAHSR would take notes on from BLW, or the Hong Kong MTR if you prefer, is the use of its station areas as revenue-generating real estate. It is state-funded, and it will recover fares, but dense, mixed-use transit-oriented developments on station-adjacent land owned by the CHSRA would be massive for both the areas it serves and its own fiscal sustainability.
Man, Americans really need to STOP accepting mediocrity. The Northeast Corridor is not a high speed railway. It is a railway that carries a high speed train that cannot stretch its legs because of how old the railway is. Then we wonder why we can't build these things.
The thing is with CAHSR being pushed out decades by the mid 2040s double wide 8 meter wide loading gauge or more 1000 kph maglevs should become feasible. Which is just a few years after the CAHSR SF to LA will likely be finished. That is the new train age with the loading gauge of about 8 meters wanted from the beginning of the railroad age in 1840s Britain. The China's CF600 maglev EMS prototype train testing at over 600 kph with goals of 800 kph is very likely the first practical high speed maglev. It levitates at at standstill and requires no landing gear. It is about 4 meters which is wider than a standard gauge passenger train, but not taking full advantage of starting a much wider loading gauge of 8 meters. Eight meters wide allows perpendicular loading of automobiles and three levels.
Maglevs can accept loading distributed across the track bed and are not limited by the rail wheel interface of current trains that are at their practical limits. Maglevs can take grades of 4% up and down grade fine. CAHSR limits speed to just 200 kph if down grades exceed 1.6%.
One rail is enough until you get this section done I mean it is high speed rail we don’t need twin rails until you have it done from point A to D then you start the other side digging more tunnels
A lot of this is speculation
Until we have everything done and completed we will not know about long term affects
No that's not true at all. It would be one thing if this were the first HSR in the world, but HSR has already been implemented successfully in countries all over the world. We KNOW exactly how transformative this project will be. There's nothing special about the US or California in particular that changes the fundamental economics of getting people from point A to point B.
California, 3rd world living at 1st world prices.
Meanwhile we just got our 142 km HSR for just US$7,2 Million on October last year.
Nah. /
Oh boy Bakersfield to Modesto. Ever been to either of those places? How much is CA in debt. Last I heard 43 billion. I know how they're going to finish it, magic
California is the world's 5th largest economy and about to pass Japan for 4th. The state has the money.
Connection those places is more important than people think - Fresno has almost a million people, Sacramento is reachable with 2 million at least, many population centers in between. Obviously there's also the factor that getting from San Fran to La and San Diego is literally only possible and worthwhile with this middle section. People shouldn't be so short-sighted!
Were you jumping for joy two years ago when they had a budget surplus? This project was still being built then.
@@TheRailwayDrone No because we were still being taxed to death. Look I see the big picture. It seems like a great idea THEORETICALLY!!. Problem is this is California. This state is run by a bunch of idiots. They'll keep pumping money into this turkey till the finally get it done, in 20 or 30 years. It won't run at a profit. The fares will be so high that it can't compete with air travel. It will stop at every podunk town & take probably 7-10 hours to go from LA to SF. if it ever goes there. Don't believe me? Just ask most people who live in CA
@@TohaBgood2 Both the California "economy" and the American economy have been hollowed out, because the majority of it is banking, real estate, insurance, medical, and the prisons, jails, police, courts, and district attorneys!
Bluh bluh bluh bluh, how fricken long? The Chinese built 20000 miles while you guys wiped your butts. Its a joke.
They want to spend more and take as long as possible to complete this project. Approved in 2008 and still no trains even purchased, it just shows how good our Government takes care of it's people. I'll probably pass away from old age before it's completed, so sad.
That's like complaining they don't buy bullets before they have a gun. You don't buy trains if you haven't started laying the tracks
The first sections are completing construction right now and they're literally in the middle of the bidding process to purchase the trains. They'll announce the contract winner for the train some time in the next few months.
Taking this long to put up a HSR is pathetic and laughable for a so called "fiRst WorLd" country😂
It was very foolish of politicians to pick the current route for high speed rail. Enormous cost and tremendous disruption. A much better choice would have been to bring high speed rail between LA and Phoenix, LA and Las Vegas, or San Francisco and Sacramento. Instead the first phase goes through prime farmland between low population areas. What a boondoggle. If they had picked any of the other routes, we would already be enjoying high speed rail. Brightline knew much better than Sacramento fools. But all the contractors that live off government spending love the current project.
Ah yes, let's ignore the over 5 million people living in the central valley.
Log off. Your comment is ridiculous and forgets about the millions of people who live in the central valley who's only ways of accessing the coasts are to either fly or drive. So many of you boneheads talk about contractors living off government spending when all they're doing is the same as any other contractor who builds buildings, installs internet services, etc. You're better off just not following anything that has to do with this project since people like you keep regurgitating the same talking points. The project has been under construction for years so I don't know why many of you continue to cry over spilled milk.
@anordinaryguy3952 the San Francisco Chronicle reported the legislature currently considers scrapping the whole project.
@@anordinaryguy3952, yes, exactly what should have happened. A paltry 5 million spread over tens of thousands of square miles with lowest population density in the state - vs 35M located in 2 or 3 large urban areas. Only idiots and would build in the middle of nowhere first
@@gooser__43We can only hope they do scrap this obscene waste of money. The sooner, the better. Costs and time have already ballooned and they haven't even begun the difficult parts which are orders of magnitude more costly.
Good grief!
What a pant-load of propaganda...
Cope harder! This thing is getting built! The first electric trains are already testing on the Bay Area section of the corridor!
Would you like to disprove any of the claims in this video?
@@TohaBgood2 I guarantee he'll be the first one riding.
Cope