Newsom kills California High Speed Rail

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That's a step in the right direction. However I can't see there being a high demand to travel between Bakersfield and Merced. The whole project should be cancelled.

Also the end of the article says this:
By afternoon, however, Newsom's office said that he is fully committed to building a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, despite his comments during his State of the State speech.

How many car trips have you canceled because the speed limit wasn't 70mph from point A to B?



Yeah, I thought so.

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That's a step in the right direction. However I can't see there being a high demand to travel between Bakersfield and Merced. The whole project should be cancelled.

Also the end of the article says this:
By afternoon, however, Newsom's office said that he is fully committed to building a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, despite his comments during his State of the State speech.

How many car trips have you canceled because the speed limit wasn't 70mph from point A to B?



Yeah, I thought so.

Is this a drunk post, because I have no idea what you're trying to say here

It was a very eloquent way of saying that even if only Merced to Bakersfield is high speed, it still greatly improves travel times for trains and does so on the cheapest areas to improve the tracks.
It’s also how I imagine the Republican brain works.

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That's a step in the right direction. However I can't see there being a high demand to travel between Bakersfield and Merced. The whole project should be cancelled.

Also the end of the article says this:
By afternoon, however, Newsom's office said that he is fully committed to building a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, despite his comments during his State of the State speech.

How many car trips have you canceled because the speed limit wasn't 70mph from point A to B?



Yeah, I thought so.

Is this a drunk post, because I have no idea what you're trying to say here

It was a very eloquent way of saying that even if only Merced to Bakersfield is high speed, it still greatly improves travel times for trains and does so on the cheapest areas to improve the tracks.
It’s also how I imagine the Republican brain works.

lol, I was actually for the original high speed rail plan because I do like trains. However this project is way behind schedule and has sucked up enough money. I also don't see a demand for a route between Bakersh**t and Merced

Personally I'd like to see a massive inflow of cash (a few tens of billions of dollars) into Amtrak.  They have a whole mess of shovel ready projects that would massively improve service, capacity, and speed in a lot of areas... namely the Northeast Corridor and in the Midwest out of Chicago.

Amtrak has purchased 28 new trainsets from Alstom (the Avelia) to replace the aging Acela Express trains from 2000. 

Features:

40% more trains allows service every 30 minutes at peak periods.
30% more passengers on each train without sacrificing personal space, plus trains are modular so more capacity can be added easily.
20% less energy needed to operate trains
160mph top operating speed initially up to 186mph with minimal improvements (this represents true high speed at 300km/h) and a top speed of 220mph (350km/h) for the train.

The hope is to knock at least an hour off the Washington-Boston trip from the get go thanks to tilting technology that allows for faster operation on existing infrastructure.

At the same time, Amtrak is working on upgrading track in various parts of the country to allow operating speeds up to 110mph on traditional routes.

With a significacnt influx of investment by the federal government, Amtrak could turn the NEC into a true high speed corridor and greatly improve other popular corridors (like the west coast and routes fanning out from Chicago) and bring travel times that are significantly faster than driving at an affordable price.

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In addition, the long distance routes will have their locomotives replaced with new Siemens Charger diesel-electric locomotives that significantly reduce emissions and use less fuel while providing top speeds of 125mph.  Because they have positive train control (PTC) they can operate at speeds of 90mph on most standard freight track and 110mph on upgraded track, up from a max of 79mph on most track currently.