https://calwatchdog.com/2014/07/10/ca-economic-ranking-renews-debate/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:52:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://calwatchdog.com/2014/07/10/ca-economic-ranking-renews-debate/#comment-87666 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:07:57 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65651#comment-87666 That transfer station – call it “San Francisco Bay Rail Hub” – would have trains every four minutes or oftener on the six-minute run to Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco.

]]> https://calwatchdog.com/2014/07/10/ca-economic-ranking-renews-debate/#comment-87665 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:03:24 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65651#comment-87665 The “Safe, Reliable” High Speed Rail of 2008 Prop 1A would be NEITHER SAFE NOR RELIABLE. It needs secure, grade-separated, fenced track, not the track of Caltrain commute trains. Initial HSR to the Bay Area must end at San Jose, with seamless transfers there to Caltrain, Capitol Corridor, VTA, and BART.—
Later it should follow the UP/Amtrak East Bay Mulford route to Oakland and on to Sacramento, with a transfer station at the BART overhead in Oakland. Much better, safer, more reliable, and less costly.

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