100% agreed. People have their qualms with the project and other people have tried to obstruct it, but the most embarrassing part is that we didn't start this project decades ago! The 40,000 flights every year between SFO and LAX is a 590-million-tons-of-CO2 blight on our state that is absolutely avoidable once this train is up and running.
most americans really don't know that riding highspeed rail is a so much more pleasant and less stressful experience than going through the airport and taking a flight. they have only experienced the outdated and barely maintained Amtrak passenger rail system and are propagandized. Like even if you don't care or believe in climate change, you should support it just because airports and airlines are hell while being able to take a fast train that gets you there in the same amount of time is so much more pleasant for you the consumer-citizen.
@@RazorSkinned86 I will just add that wherever we do have high speed rail or just high quality intercity rail, Americans really love those services and they are generally very popular. The Acela and the Northeast Regional are killing it on the Northeast Corridor. Amtrak has an 80-ish% market share there and rail tickets (market priced) are actually more expensive than flights because people prefer the train! The same things is happening in California and the other states that have invested in rail. In California in particular, we now have the most popular intercity rail lines in the country after only the NEC, which is a unique line in the US. Clearly, if you make reasonable investments in rail and reverse just some of the degradation that has happened after the Feds switched subsidies to cars from trains, people in this country like rail and take rail! It's just a matter of bringing rail transportation to some minimum level of quality and it becomes popular! This isn't rocket science! Even modest investments in rail infrastructure result in big ridership jumps.
Not just California, but the US needs this. We need to become a world leader in HSR. This will do wonders for California commerce too. And lift people out of poverty. Not to mention the jobs it creates.
I’m from New York State, not New York City, and yes, our country needs HSR, and California is on the forefront of that dream. We are all Americans, and to get this done in some state to prove the worthy ness of such a big project, that solves a major transportation issue is the right step forward, so other states can join in. Please California, get it done, to prove the skeptics wrong. Good luck and thanks you for supporting this issue.
I have supported #California #HighSpeedRail since it was first announced. This will be an enormous economic boom for California. Although, I never understood the idea of building it from the middle out...it really makes no sense, other than to try an kill it...imagine being able to be in downtown San Francisco and get to Silicon Valley in an hour or less! Or downtown LA to The Valley in about the same time. The ridership on these two lines, would have helped pay for connecting the two lines, through the Central Valley. We travel on the French TGV a couple of times a year, between Paris and Montpellier. It is fast, cost effective and comfortable and easier than flying. I am looking forward to being able to ride California’s #HSR one day. As a 5th generation Californian, I am a big fan! Thank you Senator Weiner for your support!
Hi there, The Central Valley was chosen for the beginning of construction for two main reasons: First, for the Authority to receive $2.5 billion in funds made available through ARRA, the Authority was required to begin construction in the Central Valley to provide recession relief and address the region's high unemployment rate and poor air quality. And second, our purpose-built right-of-way and structures in the Valley will be the only place in the entire country where we could test and certify our trainsets at the speeds mandated by the voters in 2008. As all over the world, speeds in urban areas have always been planned to be under out top speed of 220 miles per hour. So building a multipurpose test track exactly along our route in the Valley was efficient.
Oh my gosh I just had a realization. This bullet train might make California the next Japan. It will allow California to grow beyond Silicon Valley with a Silicon Valley Statewide Tech boom for all to enjoy. A student can attend a Cal State in the bay area and be able to go home or rent an apartment in a more affordable downtown like Fresno which in return will bring business to other parts of the state. This bullet train might be the most major solution to our housing issues/homelessness. Might make California the 3rd largest gdp in the world with Silicon Valley in Fresno and LA now. 🚀🚀🚀🚀 California Dream Big
I want this to happen so i can ride it when i get older and travel to san franciso. These opponents dont want california to thrive or prosperve. Keep up the good work. I really wanna travel on my first bullet train made in california :)
There are hundreds of short haul passenger jet flights connecting Sf and LA, dumping tons of CO2 in the air when they taxi and take off. The airline industry is bursting at the seems, unable to handle the demands. Every flight is full to capacity. The CA bullet train won't replace all those flights, but it will provide a competitive alternative. And it's about time.
i took Amtrak from Mtz to Sac for the first time last weekend and I was sad. Amtrak website and system needs a serious upgrade. Hope the see the high speed train in service soon. The US is so far behind compared to other counties. Chinese tourists sees our trains and think they went back to 1970s.
I really wouldn't want us to take China as an example. Their rail system is a mess. They built a bunch of HSR as a vanity project and it shows. Only two viable lines on the entire nationwide network is disaster! The system is financially unsustainable with insane debt that it has absolutely no way of paying back. Some lines are under 1% utilization because they were only built into the middle of nowhere to make corruption easier. Their main construction guy was executed for corruption. Meanwhile, all the Chinese trains that aren't HSR are awful. Yes, much much worse than Amtrak! Amtrak coach is Business Class by comparison! Amtrak does suffer from historic underinvestment/non-investment in equipment which they are only now starting to rectify for the first time in their history with money from the Infrastructure Bill. But even the old Amtrak equipment is clean, well maintained, and has extremely comfortable seats! Chinese regional rail is pitiful by comparison. There are so many high quality HSR and overall rail systems that are infinitely better than the Chinese vanity HSR project. Please just use one of those examples! There are plenty! We don't need to shoot for the gutter here. If we're going to actually compete with anyone here, let's compete with the best of the best.
Only CAHSR is actually a pretty sensible idea. Despite all the anti-CAHSR propaganda it is actually more popular now than when the voters approved it in 2008!
I'm not against the idea of having a substainable state wide high speed rail. But I am against the HSR who mismanaged the fundings, wasting tax payers dollars to make their entrepreneur friends rich via giving out contracts to "startup" business that have zero experience building high speed rails. NASA has an annual budget of $20 billion and is currently in the process of sending their Gatway module to orbit the moon along with many other amazing projects. The HSR recieved $122 billion and an annual $4.25 billion and has only been able to build 5 over passes in 13 years. And yet the still beg for more money, how about sacking all your inept staff memebers and replacing them with people who can actually do their job!
That would all make sense if any of your information were not wrong. When has HSR receive $122 billion? What are you even talking about? The propaganda against this project is so desperate that the "budget estimates" grow every other week! NO! CAHSR has received less than $10 billion and they haven't even spent all of it yet. The _total_ budget for the entire SF-LA section is about $90 billion (depending on the strength of the dollar), but most of that money hasn't even been appropriated yet, let alone spent! Annually, CAHSR only gets about a billion dollars. Most of that has been from the CARB program, and that number is rising with gas prices. But CAHSR has absolutely not getting anything close to $4.25 billion every year! That's just ludicrous. In other words, if you are not lying, tell us where did you get these fake number from? What precisely is your source? These numbers do not appear in any official source! Did you make this up yourself or did you get them from some right wing propaganda blog?
@@TohaBgood2 Prop 1a plans to allocate 4.2 billion to the project to finish the central valley segment. Amtrack already has a section that stretches to Bakersfield from Merced, why would anyone that CAHSR's route over Amtrac which is cheaper as well? The total cost of the project of phase 1 ranges from 76 billion to 113 billion this is pull straight from CAHSR themselves in their 2022 busines plan(yes 122 was an overestimation). In 2008, $30 billion seems like a reasonable price but it was doom from the start due to the lack of federal funding and private sector investments. Its not about politics but rather if the project can be sustainable under its own weight. With an increasing estimated project cost the CAHSR project will not be completed anytime soon, if ever. So who is going to pay for it? Should our children and grandchildren pay for it via tapping into the state's general funds and taking out loans? How will this affect future generations with Californians and its impact on living cost and taxes? Are you so indifferent to the working class that you could care less about them and more about keeping up the the Jones? Should we prioritized "Everyone else has it so we need it too!" instead of investing that into infrastructure projects that has the most benefit for Californians? People who travel from SF to LA can afford to do so, so why do we need to subsidized their travel expense by spending hundreds of billions to build an system that will be outdated by the end of the 21st century? Last time I check politicians are not engineers or inventors so why do you think their ideas could be viable? Why do you think conventional rail systems(by the way is a 200 year old technology that has already reach its apex in development) is the most cost efficient way to build low emissions public state wide transit? Do you think Americans are so inept that we CAN"T build high speed rails or we chose not to because it doesn't make sense economically? Instead of investing billions into this useless project, maybe we should use that money to invest into public education to create a capable STEM workforce that can actually create a system that is cheaper, faster and timeproof? How about supporting companies with innovative ideas such as Virgin to perfect vacuum train pods that can theoretically travel up to 760mph making it just as fast as airliners. With only 0.5 billion dollars Virgin has made more progress than CAHSR in 13 years. Public projects must be held accountable because we are paying for it, its our right to voice our opinions.
@@michaellee7933 Nope. A bunch of nonsense and propaganda again! CAHSR got less than $10 billion dollars for what they are building so far. That includes about half of the $9.95 billion that was approved in 2008 as well as some federal grants and CARB money. But that does not come even close to $122 billion or whatever you stated! The 4.2 billion that you are talking about is the second half of the original $9.95 that was only now released to CAHSR. So you did lie on this point. Just be man enough to admit it. There is a range of estimates from $76-ish to about $113 billion. But that is an uncertainty range depending on a bunch of factors, including inflation for when various sections are built. The actual budgetary estimate is unequivocally around $90 billion. This is in line with estimates from the last few years. Basically, the project cost has not changed beyond inflations since CAHSR has defeated a raft of insane delay and cost overrun inducing lawsuits. Now that the lawsuits were defeated, they are pretty much sticking to their budgets. Oh, and the original cost of the project was $44 billion as approved by voters in 2008. There was an earlier project prepared by CAHSR that could have costed $33 billion. But the voters wanted a much more performant and faster system that ended up costing over $40 billion in 2008 money. This is widely known! Even the most ardent opponents of CAHSR agree that the project as approved by voters in 2008 would cost over $40 billion. This number is by far the most commonly cited number. Hyperpoop isn't a thing. Any engineer will tell you that that simply isn't possible to build. You can't keep a tube hundreds of miles long under vacuum or near vacuum. That's just not a thing! Musk himself has admitted that he only concocted his hyperpoop craze because he wanted California to cancel CAHSR and give him the money! Virgin has laid off most of its staff and decided that passenger operations aren't possible in a vacuum tube. The rest of the startups have gone out of business. Hyperpoop is dead. Look it up.
@@TohaBgood2 the HSR project is not free, someone has to pay for it regardless of the price. the project his not fully funded and therefore is questionable whether it can be completed. A project that cost more to operate and maintain than the revengue brought in is unsustainable and will require taxpayers to subsidized it. You still need to answer the question on whether its truely benefical and to whom. To politicans becasue they can booast about accomplishing somthing. To the contractors becasue they made a huge amount of easy money. But not the taxpayers and the laidman. As for hyperloop, you're wrong about it not being possible. For now Virgin decided to not include passenger transportation but rather cargo due to safety regulations. Such new technology have to be proven over time to reduce liability before implementing it for passenger transit. you are wrong about vaccum train transport as it is VERY POSSIBLE. It will replace bullet trains eventually as its a more efficent way of transit and is privately run meaning the market demand will cover its operational cost and not the taxpayers.
@@michaellee7933 SF-LA is the largest transportation corridor in the country. The 5th most popular rail line already runs on the route, but doesn't even reach LA! There are zero chances that a single HSR line is not overwhelmed with demand on this route. Any transportation engineer will tell you that. Unlike most other transportation, HSR tends to actually be profitable and never as subsidized as highways or airlines. In Italy their HSR network killed off their national airline! So CAHSR has a fantastic route and a profitable business model. And no, hyperpoop is physically impossible to engineer into anything that is not a steaming pile of poop. Any even remotely competent engineer will tell you this! It is physically impossible to have a tube multiple hundreds of miles long with an even remotely partial vacuum. This would require millions of seals working perfectly. That is just not happening before we learn how to make forcefields! And by that time, teleportation is long going to be the dominant mode of transit! 😁😁😁
We all voted for this project in 2008. Now the project is actually more popular than when it was originally approved. We want it and we're building it. End of story!
You know once this is built people will be able to buy more affordable housing in the valley instead of living in the city. You don't have to live an hour away by cat you can live an hour away by train. Instead of 45-60miles away. You'll be able to live maybe 120miles away. Ignorance is bliss among the boomers.
@@bobbobsin3202 California is a prosperous state. We have the largest and fastest growing major economy in the US. It's natural that we'll have high prices. But if we can spread out the housing costs from the uber-expensive coastal areas to less expensive non-coastal regions this will actually make the entire state more affordable for more people. Needless to say, what we actually need is to build more housing. As is the rich are pushing out anyone less wealthy and less educated out of the state. The rich tend to take up more space because they definitely won't be living with roommates or family members. So we are actually getting an overall reduction in total capacity while the people moving into the state are generally wealthier and more educated than those who get pushed out.
100% agreed. People have their qualms with the project and other people have tried to obstruct it, but the most embarrassing part is that we didn't start this project decades ago! The 40,000 flights every year between SFO and LAX is a 590-million-tons-of-CO2 blight on our state that is absolutely avoidable once this train is up and running.
most americans really don't know that riding highspeed rail is a so much more pleasant and less stressful experience than going through the airport and taking a flight. they have only experienced the outdated and barely maintained Amtrak passenger rail system and are propagandized. Like even if you don't care or believe in climate change, you should support it just because airports and airlines are hell while being able to take a fast train that gets you there in the same amount of time is so much more pleasant for you the consumer-citizen.
@@RazorSkinned86 I will just add that wherever we do have high speed rail or just high quality intercity rail, Americans really love those services and they are generally very popular. The Acela and the Northeast Regional are killing it on the Northeast Corridor. Amtrak has an 80-ish% market share there and rail tickets (market priced) are actually more expensive than flights because people prefer the train!
The same things is happening in California and the other states that have invested in rail. In California in particular, we now have the most popular intercity rail lines in the country after only the NEC, which is a unique line in the US. Clearly, if you make reasonable investments in rail and reverse just some of the degradation that has happened after the Feds switched subsidies to cars from trains, people in this country like rail and take rail! It's just a matter of bringing rail transportation to some minimum level of quality and it becomes popular!
This isn't rocket science! Even modest investments in rail infrastructure result in big ridership jumps.
I want California High Speed Rail.
Not just California, but the US needs this. We need to become a world leader in HSR. This will do wonders for California commerce too. And lift people out of poverty. Not to mention the jobs it creates.
I’m from New York State, not New York City, and yes, our country needs HSR, and California is on the forefront of that dream. We are all Americans, and to get this done in some state to prove the worthy ness of such a big project, that solves a major transportation issue is the right step forward, so other states can join in. Please California, get it done, to prove the skeptics wrong. Good luck and thanks you for supporting this issue.
Love it! Agreed on every front Scott!
thank you, scott, for speaking the minds of everyone! let's get this thing built!!
I have supported #California #HighSpeedRail since it was first announced. This will be an enormous economic boom for California. Although, I never understood the idea of building it from the middle out...it really makes no sense, other than to try an kill it...imagine being able to be in downtown San Francisco and get to Silicon Valley in an hour or less! Or downtown LA to The Valley in about the same time. The ridership on these two lines, would have helped pay for connecting the two lines, through the Central Valley.
We travel on the French TGV a couple of times a year, between Paris and Montpellier. It is fast, cost effective and comfortable and easier than flying.
I am looking forward to being able to ride California’s #HSR one day. As a 5th generation Californian, I am a big fan! Thank you Senator Weiner for your support!
Hi there,
The Central Valley was chosen for the beginning of construction for two main reasons:
First, for the Authority to receive $2.5 billion in funds made available through ARRA, the Authority was required to begin construction in the Central Valley to provide recession relief and address the region's high unemployment rate and poor air quality.
And second, our purpose-built right-of-way and structures in the Valley will be the only place in the entire country where we could test and certify our trainsets at the speeds mandated by the voters in 2008. As all over the world, speeds in urban areas have always been planned to be under out top speed of 220 miles per hour. So building a multipurpose test track exactly along our route in the Valley was efficient.
Build California High Speed Rail and build California High Speed Rail now from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and Sacramento to San Diego.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK IN MAKING THIS HAPPEN.
Oh my gosh I just had a realization. This bullet train might make California the next Japan. It will allow California to grow beyond Silicon Valley with a Silicon Valley Statewide Tech boom for all to enjoy. A student can attend a Cal State in the bay area and be able to go home or rent an apartment in a more affordable downtown like Fresno which in return will bring business to other parts of the state. This bullet train might be the most major solution to our housing issues/homelessness. Might make California the 3rd largest gdp in the world with Silicon Valley in Fresno and LA now. 🚀🚀🚀🚀
California Dream Big
I want this to happen so i can ride it when i get older and travel to san franciso. These opponents dont want california to thrive or prosperve. Keep up the good work. I really wanna travel on my first bullet train made in california :)
He’s so right!
Can't wait for it to happen!
Also electric God Daddy Elon. Screw that guy! Trying to throw a wrench at CAHSR with his stupid Hyperloop project.
I’m sorry, did tou say hyperpoop? I heard hyperpoop! I’m going with that!
Yesss king 👏
There are hundreds of short haul passenger jet flights connecting Sf and LA, dumping tons of CO2 in the air when they taxi and take off. The airline industry is bursting at the seems, unable to handle the demands. Every flight is full to capacity. The CA bullet train won't replace all those flights, but it will provide a competitive alternative. And it's about time.
i took Amtrak from Mtz to Sac for the first time last weekend and I was sad. Amtrak website and system needs a serious upgrade. Hope the see the high speed train in service soon. The US is so far behind compared to other counties. Chinese tourists sees our trains and think they went back to 1970s.
I really wouldn't want us to take China as an example. Their rail system is a mess. They built a bunch of HSR as a vanity project and it shows. Only two viable lines on the entire nationwide network is disaster! The system is financially unsustainable with insane debt that it has absolutely no way of paying back. Some lines are under 1% utilization because they were only built into the middle of nowhere to make corruption easier. Their main construction guy was executed for corruption.
Meanwhile, all the Chinese trains that aren't HSR are awful. Yes, much much worse than Amtrak! Amtrak coach is Business Class by comparison! Amtrak does suffer from historic underinvestment/non-investment in equipment which they are only now starting to rectify for the first time in their history with money from the Infrastructure Bill. But even the old Amtrak equipment is clean, well maintained, and has extremely comfortable seats! Chinese regional rail is pitiful by comparison.
There are so many high quality HSR and overall rail systems that are infinitely better than the Chinese vanity HSR project. Please just use one of those examples! There are plenty! We don't need to shoot for the gutter here. If we're going to actually compete with anyone here, let's compete with the best of the best.
I love California High Speed Rail.
The only thing crazier than CAHSR is that Scott Wiener is 52! Gimmie some of your youth fountian Mr. Wiener!
WHAT
Wait what
Only CAHSR is actually a pretty sensible idea. Despite all the anti-CAHSR propaganda it is actually more popular now than when the voters approved it in 2008!
Yes and yeah California High Speed Rail.
Get California High Speed Rail and get California High Speed Rail now from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and Sacramento to San Diego.
Nice of you, Sir, to voice support for CAHSR. THough just in case you don't know - CAHSR needs funding support way more than it needs verbal support.
Scott Wiener you get my lifetime vote as a result of this!
Congratulations.
NUMBNUTS
Clean up the drugs and streets first.
I'm not against the idea of having a substainable state wide high speed rail. But I am against the HSR who mismanaged the fundings, wasting tax payers dollars to make their entrepreneur friends rich via giving out contracts to "startup" business that have zero experience building high speed rails. NASA has an annual budget of $20 billion and is currently in the process of sending their Gatway module to orbit the moon along with many other amazing projects. The HSR recieved $122 billion and an annual $4.25 billion and has only been able to build 5 over passes in 13 years. And yet the still beg for more money, how about sacking all your inept staff memebers and replacing them with people who can actually do their job!
That would all make sense if any of your information were not wrong. When has HSR receive $122 billion? What are you even talking about? The propaganda against this project is so desperate that the "budget estimates" grow every other week!
NO! CAHSR has received less than $10 billion and they haven't even spent all of it yet. The _total_ budget for the entire SF-LA section is about $90 billion (depending on the strength of the dollar), but most of that money hasn't even been appropriated yet, let alone spent!
Annually, CAHSR only gets about a billion dollars. Most of that has been from the CARB program, and that number is rising with gas prices. But CAHSR has absolutely not getting anything close to $4.25 billion every year! That's just ludicrous.
In other words, if you are not lying, tell us where did you get these fake number from? What precisely is your source? These numbers do not appear in any official source! Did you make this up yourself or did you get them from some right wing propaganda blog?
@@TohaBgood2 Prop 1a plans to allocate 4.2 billion to the project to finish the central valley segment. Amtrack already has a section that stretches to Bakersfield from Merced, why would anyone that CAHSR's route over Amtrac which is cheaper as well? The total cost of the project of phase 1 ranges from 76 billion to 113 billion this is pull straight from CAHSR themselves in their 2022 busines plan(yes 122 was an overestimation). In 2008, $30 billion seems like a reasonable price but it was doom from the start due to the lack of federal funding and private sector investments.
Its not about politics but rather if the project can be sustainable under its own weight. With an increasing estimated project cost the CAHSR project will not be completed anytime soon, if ever. So who is going to pay for it? Should our children and grandchildren pay for it via tapping into the state's general funds and taking out loans? How will this affect future generations with Californians and its impact on living cost and taxes? Are you so indifferent to the working class that you could care less about them and more about keeping up the the Jones? Should we prioritized "Everyone else has it so we need it too!" instead of investing that into infrastructure projects that has the most benefit for Californians?
People who travel from SF to LA can afford to do so, so why do we need to subsidized their travel expense by spending hundreds of billions to build an system that will be outdated by the end of the 21st century? Last time I check politicians are not engineers or inventors so why do you think their ideas could be viable? Why do you think conventional rail systems(by the way is a 200 year old technology that has already reach its apex in development) is the most cost efficient way to build low emissions public state wide transit?
Do you think Americans are so inept that we CAN"T build high speed rails or we chose not to because it doesn't make sense economically? Instead of investing billions into this useless project, maybe we should use that money to invest into public education to create a capable STEM workforce that can actually create a system that is cheaper, faster and timeproof? How about supporting companies with innovative ideas such as Virgin to perfect vacuum train pods that can theoretically travel up to 760mph making it just as fast as airliners. With only 0.5 billion dollars Virgin has made more progress than CAHSR in 13 years. Public projects must be held accountable because we are paying for it, its our right to voice our opinions.
@@michaellee7933 Nope. A bunch of nonsense and propaganda again! CAHSR got less than $10 billion dollars for what they are building so far. That includes about half of the $9.95 billion that was approved in 2008 as well as some federal grants and CARB money. But that does not come even close to $122 billion or whatever you stated!
The 4.2 billion that you are talking about is the second half of the original $9.95 that was only now released to CAHSR. So you did lie on this point. Just be man enough to admit it.
There is a range of estimates from $76-ish to about $113 billion. But that is an uncertainty range depending on a bunch of factors, including inflation for when various sections are built. The actual budgetary estimate is unequivocally around $90 billion. This is in line with estimates from the last few years. Basically, the project cost has not changed beyond inflations since CAHSR has defeated a raft of insane delay and cost overrun inducing lawsuits. Now that the lawsuits were defeated, they are pretty much sticking to their budgets.
Oh, and the original cost of the project was $44 billion as approved by voters in 2008. There was an earlier project prepared by CAHSR that could have costed $33 billion. But the voters wanted a much more performant and faster system that ended up costing over $40 billion in 2008 money. This is widely known! Even the most ardent opponents of CAHSR agree that the project as approved by voters in 2008 would cost over $40 billion. This number is by far the most commonly cited number.
Hyperpoop isn't a thing. Any engineer will tell you that that simply isn't possible to build. You can't keep a tube hundreds of miles long under vacuum or near vacuum. That's just not a thing! Musk himself has admitted that he only concocted his hyperpoop craze because he wanted California to cancel CAHSR and give him the money!
Virgin has laid off most of its staff and decided that passenger operations aren't possible in a vacuum tube. The rest of the startups have gone out of business. Hyperpoop is dead. Look it up.
@@TohaBgood2 the HSR project is not free, someone has to pay for it regardless of the price. the project his not fully funded and therefore is questionable whether it can be completed. A project that cost more to operate and maintain than the revengue brought in is unsustainable and will require taxpayers to subsidized it. You still need to answer the question on whether its truely benefical and to whom. To politicans becasue they can booast about accomplishing somthing. To the contractors becasue they made a huge amount of easy money. But not the taxpayers and the laidman.
As for hyperloop, you're wrong about it not being possible. For now Virgin decided to not include passenger transportation but rather cargo due to safety regulations. Such new technology have to be proven over time to reduce liability before implementing it for passenger transit. you are wrong about vaccum train transport as it is VERY POSSIBLE. It will replace bullet trains eventually as its a more efficent way of transit and is privately run meaning the market demand will cover its operational cost and not the taxpayers.
@@michaellee7933 SF-LA is the largest transportation corridor in the country. The 5th most popular rail line already runs on the route, but doesn't even reach LA! There are zero chances that a single HSR line is not overwhelmed with demand on this route. Any transportation engineer will tell you that.
Unlike most other transportation, HSR tends to actually be profitable and never as subsidized as highways or airlines. In Italy their HSR network killed off their national airline! So CAHSR has a fantastic route and a profitable business model.
And no, hyperpoop is physically impossible to engineer into anything that is not a steaming pile of poop. Any even remotely competent engineer will tell you this! It is physically impossible to have a tube multiple hundreds of miles long with an even remotely partial vacuum. This would require millions of seals working perfectly. That is just not happening before we learn how to make forcefields! And by that time, teleportation is long going to be the dominant mode of transit! 😁😁😁
People don't need bullet train.
Meanwhile, thousands and thousands are homeless in California.
But yeah, "better idea" to build another train.
We all voted for this project in 2008. Now the project is actually more popular than when it was originally approved. We want it and we're building it. End of story!
You know once this is built people will be able to buy more affordable housing in the valley instead of living in the city. You don't have to live an hour away by cat you can live an hour away by train. Instead of 45-60miles away. You'll be able to live maybe 120miles away. Ignorance is bliss among the boomers.
"More affordable" in valley is now too expensive in 2022
@@bobbobsin3202 California is a prosperous state. We have the largest and fastest growing major economy in the US. It's natural that we'll have high prices. But if we can spread out the housing costs from the uber-expensive coastal areas to less expensive non-coastal regions this will actually make the entire state more affordable for more people.
Needless to say, what we actually need is to build more housing. As is the rich are pushing out anyone less wealthy and less educated out of the state. The rich tend to take up more space because they definitely won't be living with roommates or family members. So we are actually getting an overall reduction in total capacity while the people moving into the state are generally wealthier and more educated than those who get pushed out.
Bottom line is government at every level don't care about making and keeping people homeless .....especially in California
typical jew ...