Comments on: Amtrak, CA high-speed rail cancel joint train agreement https://calwatchdog.com/2014/06/22/amtrak-ca-high-speed-rail-cancel-joint-train-agreement/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:52:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Queeg https://calwatchdog.com/2014/06/22/amtrak-ca-high-speed-rail-cancel-joint-train-agreement/#comment-86199 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 03:42:57 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65025#comment-86199 Trains are vital….autos and planes only a struggling part of the mobility future.

Wake up or one day you got outside and every street is clogged shut!

]]> By: Wolfman https://calwatchdog.com/2014/06/22/amtrak-ca-high-speed-rail-cancel-joint-train-agreement/#comment-86175 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 19:51:54 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65025#comment-86175 another waste of California taxpayers money

]]> By: Robert S. Allen https://calwatchdog.com/2014/06/22/amtrak-ca-high-speed-rail-cancel-joint-train-agreement/#comment-86137 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:27:44 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65025#comment-86137 Another difference: Amtrak’s 100-year-old rail lines are largely secure, i.e., grade-separated and well fenced. California’s High Speed Rail plans to run on Caltrain’s commuter train tracks about 50 miles between San Francisco and San Jose, tracks with dozens of grade crossings and suburban stations.

California’s HSR bond issue, 2008 Prop 1A, was for “Safe, Reliable” high speed passenger trains. The “Blended Rail” officials propose is NEITHER SAFE NOR RELIABLE.

Initial HSR to the Bay Area should end at San Jose, with seamless transfers there to Caltrain, Capitol Corridor, VTA, and SV BART. Later it should up-grade the UP/Amtrak East Bay Amtrak route to Oakland and on to Sacramento, with a transfer station at the BART overhead in Oakland. From that station San Francisco’s Embarcadero station is six minutes away, with trains every four minutes. Much better, safer, more reliable, and far less costly.

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