Yes it’s expensive but the state is building the future by opening up the middle of the state for development. Countless people and companies will benefit from the infrastructure.
Doug Martin::: Wrong. If any transportation system have the effect of “opening up the middle of the state for development,” the I-5 would already have accomplished it 40 years ago. As to your claim that “Countless people and companies will benefit from the infrastructure (HSR),” those beneficiaries are primarily the trade unions, union workers, and contractors who successfully lobbied corrupt politicians who received their election campaign money. The original budget of HSR was $35 billion; it has been upwardly revised several times to today’s $90 billion - not enough to complete the project given the current cash burn. 50% of the budget has depleted, but not a single rail station is completed; not a single rail laid down; not a single locomotive purchased. Auxiliary yet to be built: power stations; maintenance stations, roadways, and equipment; security facilities; flood and drainage control; illumination and telecommunications structures. Your claim that “… the state (California) is building the future…” is a blatant lie at best, a delusion at worst. Not a single mass transit system in California or in the entire USA operated in the black since beginning their operation. The HSR will be another heavy yoke on the neck on all California taxpayers.
It is worth it - my opinion too. The question is whether the Americans' taxes will be jetted into dump, because there are a lot of uneducated and jealous people who are so stupid as not to care about other ones and not to make this project real. This railroad is now and will have been for years a strong boost for California economy.
Except that any completed CA HSR will be nowhere near Los Angeles by 2028. Even the optimists staffing the CA HSR Authority (who told us when they pushed through the bond funds that the whole LA to SFO trackage would be complete in 2020) are now telling us that they won't be to Gilroy before 2030....and Los Angeles by 2035.
Hope it doesn’t fall off in the end. Would be really cool to move around California faster. Could visit my friends in other cities like in an hour or so.
Make the goal to get a revenue service up and running between Merced and Bakersfield by the start of the 2028 Olympics, so people from all over the country and the world can see and experience the first true high speed train in the US, and California can demonstrate to both that true high speed rail will work here. Having such a service during the Olympics will provide it some great publicity, and help drive completing the full SF-LA route.
It appears that CHSR is actually progressing. I've been extremely discouraged from time to time over the years by all the negative reporting about this project, but still have hope that it will continue through completion. We taxpayers here in the U.S. deserve to have an alternative mode of long distance travel other than the auto or airline. Every progressive country in the world has or is developing high speed rail in some form. Some less affluent countries are ahead of us as well in terms of high speed rail development. HSR isn't a matter of "can we do it", it's a matter of prioritizing it.
It's an expensive project, but not having this alternative transportation will become more expensive in the future. We need to invest in more public forms of transportation instead of for the individual cars that make up most of the traffic in our roads.
I have wanted to ride a high speed train for so long. I hope this actually gets finished. I have family in Bakersfield I could visit. But TBH I just want to ride the train
Since you have an Extinction Rebellion profile pic, can you please tell Extinction Rebellion in the UK to stop opposing our equivalent high speed rail project (HS2). It's hypocritical on their part
Yes. It’s expensive. But just wait until it’s finished! It’s definitely going to open the door to possibly getting high speed rail all across the nation!
R Quest::: this CHSR will serve only flat Central California, an agricultural region with low population density. Governor Newsome had no choice but to cut the N and S segment of the CHSR as 50% of the $90 billion has been burnt through without substantial construction. The average speed will be higher in the flat plain of Central California, but nevertheless this ‘high speed rail’ will never achieve 200 mph, more likely 130 mph at best. The CHSR is a $99 billion boondoggle whose primary beneficiaries are the trade labor unions, construction companies, and financiers. No mass transit has ever operated at a profit in the 20th and 21st century, and the CHSR is no exception. Today’s extraordinary high tax burden imposed on the Californians will only be heavier in the future as additional taxes will be levied to subsidize this boondoggle. Californians must exodus this fiasco, corrupt State before it’s too late.
@@TheRailwayDrone what progress? you should check how many miles of high speed rails China constructed in 7 years and how little money it spent on it comparing to this... IT WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS BY "PROGRESS"!
@@rayq6734 Dude, I know all about China but unfortunately, we live in a country that's ruled by lawsuits so if you want to compare China to the U.S., you should be encouraging your congresspeople to change the NEPA laws so ridiculously stupid lawsuits can't be mounted against progress.
@@TheRailwayDrone I know how stupid NEPA laws can be. But I also know it's still pathetic even comparing to Europe which has stricter environmental laws than US. But don't try to divert the topic, shall we? You mentioned "there is plenty of progress." , so if you are not comparing with projects in China or EU or Japan or... you name it. Which project or standard are you comparing to, that makes you believe "there is plenty of progress." ?
LOLOLOLOLOL You are living in Fantasyland. Hate to break this to you, but the CA HSR Authority current plan is only building between Gilroy and Palmdale-Lancaster. And Caltrain & Metrolink has shown *NO* interest in completing the section San Francisco to Gilroy & Palmdale-Lancaster to Los Angeles or Anaheim for the HSR authority. Both agencies operate conventional trains on conventional tracks. Now the Gilroy to Palmdale-Lancaster route is about 350 miles as the railroad is routed. And at 220 mph (the fastest the Federal Railroad Administration will allow ANY train to operate at) that route would take nn hour and forty minutes PLUS en-route station stops, acceleration, and deceleration. So really the HSR portion will take more than two hours... And that doesn't count the Caltrain & Metrolink sections. Caltrain's conventional express train from Gilroy to San Francisco takes two hours and six minutes (2:06). Metrolink's Lancaster to Los Angeles Union station service is two hours and five minutes (2:05) Assuming that one only has to wait 5 minutes for a platform-to-platform transfer at Gilroy & Lancaster, that means the total time would be somewhere in excess of six hours and twenty one minutes (6:21) (more if you want to change trains in Los Angeles for Anaheim, another 0:43 of train travel)
This is the first I heard or saw about Gov. Newsom visiting the HSR construction sites. This footage does not appear to be on your site, either. What happened? It should have been bigger news.
Regardless of how expensive, it has to be done with how congested it is. Cant stop progress. Also not only California benefits this but Nevada as well which theres an empty lot for a speed rail station off Las Vegas blvd on the south side. Little by little it will get done.
What progress? 12 years and you fools can’t build a single line China built a whole network and several city subway systems in that time pathetic pathetic
@@qjtvaddict They don't have the expertise that's why. If Congress hadn't been bribeb many years ago by car and airline companies then the US would look a lot different
I predict that this will be huge for California and Employers. This is going to enable for employers to draw more employees outside the Bay area and LA area because this will make commuting a lot more affordable and convenient.
Regardless of the issues this project has had over the years, I believe it’s a worthwhile investment into our economy and will help ease congestion from some of our major freeways. Imagine not having things like the Golden Gate Bridge or the Interstate Highway System because some people called them expensive “boondoggles” at one point. Nothing worth having in life comes without effort.
Well, don't count your chicken too early. Here in Washington DC our 24 mile extension of Metro Silver line, after $6.8 Billion and more than ten years, is not finished yet 😒
What an utter boondoggle. Even if they manage to complete phase one from Merced to Bakersfield... they will have managed to complete a fast railroad to nowhere. The *entire* population of the corridor including Merced, Fresno, and Bakersfield is less than 2 million people......in a state of 40 million. For a railroad that will NEVER pay for itself, since it can not possibly generate the traffic necessary from that small a population to justify its construction. And of course, they will have more than blown through more than the $40 Billion dollars the public was told that a complete San Francisco to Los Angeles high speed railroad would cost just to build this short line, leaving the most expensive part of the rout unbuilt in a massive bait-and-switch con game. Which they fantasize can be completed for $88 Billion, more than twice what they sold the voters the system would cost. Hell, they have even lowered the bar from a San Francisco to Los Angeles HSR line. Now they are only planning to build from Gilroy to Palmdale-Lancaster.....where they hope that the Bay Area & Los Angeles transit agencies will magically build the remainder of their system for ten cents on the dollar. If this were private industry, they would have long since been forced into receivership by their shareholders.... But because these are pigs feeding at the public trough, they are oblivious to the costs.
Countless tax dollars down the drain, how about building a new water reservoirs to capture rain water? Last reservoir was built in 1979 in California, we need water more than a train nobody will use.
The New York City subway took 70 years to build to 95% of current system (1870-1940). Total build time of CAHSR will be much less. (Comparable number of track miles.)
You would think they would have started with actually connecting two places that people will travel between. Instead, they did this so it will keep the project on the hook so it will have to be completed and it could be justified finishing. Not to mention lots of people are making money off of this now.
This project makes me really happy. The US should be full of such construction sites. It is unbelievable in what condition the rail network of the largest economy in the world is, which often corresponds to the network of an emerging country. Hardly any high-speed lines. Some train stations in large cities are similar to those in the villages of Europe. It is even more difficult to understand why many US citizens oppose the railroad. I love the US, but the rail network is way behind. From Cologne (1.1 million inhabitants) to Düsseldorf (600,000 inhabitants) more than 10 tracks run to the right and left of the Rhine to accommodate the enormous number of different trains.
LOL, the US has the most efficient and advanced freight railroad system in the world. Americans want to fly and drive. We also have the most complete interstate highway system in the world. Please stop conflating our lack of passenger rail, which no American wants to travel by, with some ridiculous notion our rail system is behind everyone else.
@@jirky015 How do you know that no American would want to travel on high speed trains when they hardly exist ? On the Boston-Washington, San Diego-San Francisco, or around Chicago routes, high speed trains are a great complement. Congratulations on the interstates that are perpetually congested in the regions mentioned above.
@@ubiorumopidum3649 Congratulations, you're talking about areas that already have established passenger rail service. I have no issue with HSR if it makes sense. Your conflation that because the US doesn't have any extensive HSR it's on the same level to an "emerging country". That is so beyond exaggerated, hyperbolic and extremely false it's laughable.
As a European Railway Engineer I can happily say. The ridiculous cost overruns of this project are primarily a result of lack of investigative skills as to how you should or should NOT build these super high speed railways. Many countries now have such systems including Morocco & shortly Egypt ! Building these types of railway on miles of elevated structure is plain stupid, especially if they have to pass through earthquake zones ! Not only do elevated structures cost huge amounts to construct, they take years longer, and once built require constant & expensive continuous maintenance. If built on the ground roads/rivers/other railways, need only a bridge over or under the new line. Along with a cheap but continuous security fence to keep suicidal idiots out ! Another problem is how is the huge electrical power required to move 16,000hp electric trains at 200mph + going to be provided for ? I have not heard of any plans to build another Nuclear power station in the region, for this railway !!!!
Mhhh The segment that was approved and budgeted is for the cities of Madera to Bakersfield....in other words, we tax payers spent dozens of billions of dollars so that two poor towns full of immigrants can travel at high speed?..... 😔🤔
I wanna know why I have to go through LA to get to the Central Valley? You're taking me all the way to the north end of the Inland Empire then making a hard left to LA. Why not go up the Cajon Pass and hang a left along the 138 and skirt the LA Trap all together? Come on Sacramento *THINK!*
How many companies' contractors are involved in this project ? I was in the Philippines, and they have a project called North and South railway project and so many contractors company involved in the project and funding by Jica Japanese..
The Central Valley was supposed to be the "cheap" part of the project. Look at all the bridges, viaduct etc. they are building. Because they chose the wrong route. Should have followed I5.
I'm not sure which will be completed first: California high speed rail (at least to LA) or the I-5 Interstate bridge between Portland and Vancouver. Both seem hopeless.
Saw an article the other day saying that it's a good thing California's high speed rail will never be as efficient as China. Ok. Then how about being as efficient as Japan? Or Korea? They've got high speed rail too and it didn't take them decades to build it.
The politicians and their friends have to get paid. What a racket. It’s way over budget and behind schedule. The costs have ballooned from $40 billion when quoted to voters, to now $100 billion and growing. What’s worse is the high speed rail will undoubtedly operate at a loss like most rail projects do and so will be a net drain for taxpayers. Other than all that, it’s just peachy!
I’d rather ride Amtrak, Coaster, and/or Metrolink’s SC-44 charger diesel-electric and f125 diesel-electric train than waste money on a HSR train which this project is a bust. Just another money grabbing politician such as Newsom and the radical left. It’s a high speed fail!!!
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Dang this is actually moving along.. imagine being able to work any where in California
I hope this spurs the growth of HSR all across the country.
I hope the ones in the mid west is a join venture in order to standardize the rail system.
Yes it’s expensive but the state is building the future by opening up the middle of the state for development. Countless people and companies will benefit from the infrastructure.
Indeed. I hope that all nations will choose this path aswell.
Exactly. This should be obvious to all but people had to politicize it because Democrats are the ones in charge of the project.
This fiasco will be completed in a hundred years if ever.
@@criticalwokeracisttheory4645 when it gets finished you’ll be the first to buy a ticket 😂😂😂
Doug Martin::: Wrong. If any transportation system have the effect of “opening up the middle of the state for development,” the I-5 would already have accomplished it 40 years ago. As to your claim that “Countless people and companies will benefit from the infrastructure (HSR),” those beneficiaries are primarily the trade unions, union workers, and contractors who successfully lobbied corrupt politicians who received their election campaign money. The original budget of HSR was $35 billion; it has been upwardly revised several times to today’s $90 billion - not enough to complete the project given the current cash burn. 50% of the budget has depleted, but not a single rail station is completed; not a single rail laid down; not a single locomotive purchased. Auxiliary yet to be built: power stations; maintenance stations, roadways, and equipment; security facilities; flood and drainage control; illumination and telecommunications structures. Your claim that “… the state (California) is building the future…” is a blatant lie at best, a delusion at worst. Not a single mass transit system in California or in the entire USA operated in the black since beginning their operation. The HSR will be another heavy yoke on the neck on all California taxpayers.
I know there have been massive problems with the project but it is 100% worth it. Happy to see some progress.
It is worth it - my opinion too. The question is whether the Americans' taxes will be jetted into dump, because there are a lot of uneducated and jealous people who are so stupid as not to care about other ones and not to make this project real. This railroad is now and will have been for years a strong boost for California economy.
Attrition, berated,
Would be great to see the initial segment of the hsr up and running in time for the LA 2028 Olympics.
what are olympics?
That would be great
Except that any completed CA HSR will be nowhere near Los Angeles by 2028. Even the optimists staffing the CA HSR Authority (who told us when they pushed through the bond funds that the whole LA to SFO trackage would be complete in 2020) are now telling us that they won't be to Gilroy before 2030....and Los Angeles by 2035.
This is the most existing infrastructure project in the US by far that will bring California to the new level
Hope it doesn’t fall off in the end. Would be really cool to move around California faster. Could visit my friends in other cities like in an hour or so.
For real! I moved out of San Francisco to Bakersfield. And this train would really help.
Make the goal to get a revenue service up and running between Merced and Bakersfield by the start of the 2028 Olympics, so people from all over the country and the world can see and experience the first true high speed train in the US, and California can demonstrate to both that true high speed rail will work here. Having such a service during the Olympics will provide it some great publicity, and help drive completing the full SF-LA route.
Isn’t bright line Florida considered HSR? If true, californias wouldn’t be the first in the US.
Merced to LA would definitely hype things up if its done by 2028.
What would Merced to Bakersfield do for the Olympics? It’s a train to nowhere.
@@jordanbuckau4242 Brightline is a highER speed rail iirc
@@isdattomatojuice9897 isn’t 125 mph considered HSR?
Can we just spend $50 billion a year and get it done by like 2025
Unfortunately, no, as EIS's still need to be completed for large portions of the route, which will include the longest rail tunnels in North America.
Are YOU going to pony up "$50 billion a year" Trevor?
No? What a shock....
@@ilikehardplay are you willing to pony up 150 billion to widen I-5, no? What a shock
It appears that CHSR is actually progressing. I've been extremely discouraged from time to time over the years by all the negative reporting about this project, but still have hope that it will continue through completion. We taxpayers here in the U.S. deserve to have an alternative mode of long distance travel other than the auto or airline. Every progressive country in the world has or is developing high speed rail in some form. Some less affluent countries are ahead of us as well in terms of high speed rail development. HSR isn't a matter of "can we do it", it's a matter of prioritizing it.
to my brother from anther mother big up man this time its the train is going tru not another black neighbor hood
i cannot wait as my kid and i am fans of high speed trains. have tried some high speed in Japan and Europe. its time for the US to have one.
Build California High Speed Rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and Sacramento to San Diego now.
It's an expensive project, but not having this alternative transportation will become more expensive in the future. We need to invest in more public forms of transportation instead of for the individual cars that make up most of the traffic in our roads.
I have wanted to ride a high speed train for so long. I hope this actually gets finished. I have family in Bakersfield I could visit. But TBH I just want to ride the train
I traval to China often and see the benefits of the high-speed rail there. I hope the high-speed rail work can be finished in California soon.
Let's hope
I love California High Speed Rail.
Let's build high speed rail Jesus literally all of Europe, china, and many other places have hsr
Agreed ! If the whole world can be wired for HSR, traveling will be so much more affordable and the environment will be so much better off!
Since you have an Extinction Rebellion profile pic, can you please tell Extinction Rebellion in the UK to stop opposing our equivalent high speed rail project (HS2). It's hypocritical on their part
Yes. It’s expensive. But just wait until it’s finished! It’s definitely going to open the door to possibly getting high speed rail all across the nation!
We should contact our legislators and demand they fund the project
with what money lol. Yall are seriously delusional in California huh?
@@daeclipse03 California has always set the standards for the rest of the nation. Get used to it.
We should immediately fund the entire project; public infrastructure will make back any "debt" the moment it opena
There is something magical at traveling at 200mph at ground level.
R Quest::: this CHSR will serve only flat Central California, an agricultural region with low population density. Governor Newsome had no choice but to cut the N and S segment of the CHSR as 50% of the $90 billion has been burnt through without substantial construction. The average speed will be higher in the flat plain of Central California, but nevertheless this ‘high speed rail’ will never achieve 200 mph, more likely 130 mph at best. The CHSR is a $99 billion boondoggle whose primary beneficiaries are the trade labor unions, construction companies, and financiers. No mass transit has ever operated at a profit in the 20th and 21st century, and the CHSR is no exception. Today’s extraordinary high tax burden imposed on the Californians will only be heavier in the future as additional taxes will be levied to subsidize this boondoggle. Californians must exodus this fiasco, corrupt State before it’s too late.
@@ubermenschen3636 Sounds like a complete disaster.
Bravo! Let's bring rail back. More trains. PLEASE!
Keep the progress going.
10 or 12 years later still no progress? hahahaha
@@yurinalysis8034 Construction started 7 years ago and there is plenty of progress.
@@TheRailwayDrone what progress? you should check how many miles of high speed rails China constructed in 7 years and how little money it spent on it comparing to this... IT WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS BY "PROGRESS"!
@@rayq6734 Dude, I know all about China but unfortunately, we live in a country that's ruled by lawsuits so if you want to compare China to the U.S., you should be encouraging your congresspeople to change the NEPA laws so ridiculously stupid lawsuits can't be mounted against progress.
@@TheRailwayDrone I know how stupid NEPA laws can be. But I also know it's still pathetic even comparing to Europe which has stricter environmental laws than US.
But don't try to divert the topic, shall we? You mentioned "there is plenty of progress." , so if you are not comparing with projects in China or EU or Japan or... you name it. Which project or standard are you comparing to, that makes you believe "there is plenty of progress." ?
This is truly inspiring! San Francisco to Anaheim (Disneyland) in 3 hours!!!!
LOLOLOLOLOL
You are living in Fantasyland. Hate to break this to you, but the CA HSR Authority current plan is only building between Gilroy and Palmdale-Lancaster. And Caltrain & Metrolink has shown *NO* interest in completing the section San Francisco to Gilroy & Palmdale-Lancaster to Los Angeles or Anaheim for the HSR authority. Both agencies operate conventional trains on conventional tracks.
Now the Gilroy to Palmdale-Lancaster route is about 350 miles as the railroad is routed. And at 220 mph (the fastest the Federal Railroad Administration will allow ANY train to operate at) that route would take nn hour and forty minutes PLUS en-route station stops, acceleration, and deceleration. So really the HSR portion will take more than two hours... And that doesn't count the Caltrain & Metrolink sections. Caltrain's conventional express train from Gilroy to San Francisco takes two hours and six minutes (2:06). Metrolink's Lancaster to Los Angeles Union station service is two hours and five minutes (2:05) Assuming that one only has to wait 5 minutes for a platform-to-platform transfer at Gilroy & Lancaster, that means the total time would be somewhere in excess of six hours and twenty one minutes (6:21) (more if you want to change trains in Los Angeles for Anaheim, another 0:43 of train travel)
Build California High Speed Rail now.
Really happy to see actual progress. I really hope to see what trains will operate on this segment
We need a railway to Las Vegas
That’s one of the proposed expansions
I want this to be built so bad
This is the first I heard or saw about Gov. Newsom visiting the HSR construction sites. This footage does not appear to be on your site, either. What happened? It should have been bigger news.
Wonderful news and proud of you. Can't wait to ride on the high speed railway.
Can’t wait to take Amtrak out to California to ride high speed rail! Great work California!!
Where from ? If you don’t mind me asking.
@@californiamade5608 Kansas
If this project is really successful, you could even end up taking a high-speed rail to California.
Same
And this is why California economy is up! And other state are down!
Regardless of how expensive, it has to be done with how congested it is. Cant stop progress. Also not only California benefits this but Nevada as well which theres an empty lot for a speed rail station off Las Vegas blvd on the south side. Little by little it will get done.
What progress? 12 years and you fools can’t build a single line China built a whole network and several city subway systems in that time pathetic pathetic
@@qjtvaddict They don't have the expertise that's why. If Congress hadn't been bribeb many years ago by car and airline companies then the US would look a lot different
Karen Massie has a great speaking voice.
I predict that this will be huge for California and Employers. This is going to enable for employers to draw more employees outside the Bay area and LA area because this will make commuting a lot more affordable and convenient.
If they cut out the graft and corruption costs it would probably cost a lot less and be easier
Regardless of the issues this project has had over the years, I believe it’s a worthwhile investment into our economy and will help ease congestion from some of our major freeways. Imagine not having things like the Golden Gate Bridge or the Interstate Highway System because some people called them expensive “boondoggles” at one point. Nothing worth having in life comes without effort.
Victims of a society obsessed with short term results
Why no mention of the future Amtrak Coast Daylight service into Salesforce Transit System "Train Box"? Good video. Keep it up! #iwillride
Build California High Speed Rail.
@Ringsofearth It’s a high speed fail!!!
It's super nice they're building all that. Is just awesome, it's country really needed it. Keep building boys, great vibes from here!
Fantastic !
Just build it faster please
When Chinese tourist arrives and lands in LA or SF, they thought they took the wrong flight and landed in Bombay/NuDeli.
I am SO excited that this long delayed project is happening!!
HSR is expensive upfront, but cars and car infrastructure is expensive always.
Build California High Speed Rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and Sacramento to San Diego.
Well, don't count your chicken too early. Here in Washington DC our 24 mile extension of Metro Silver line, after $6.8 Billion and more than ten years, is not finished yet 😒
Loved this recap!
Makes Pelosi rich
My tax dollars paid for the production of this useless video propaganda
12-13 years later and we got some bridges amazing job
It’s a lot more then that bud
What an utter boondoggle. Even if they manage to complete phase one from Merced to Bakersfield... they will have managed to complete a fast railroad to nowhere.
The *entire* population of the corridor including Merced, Fresno, and Bakersfield is less than 2 million people......in a state of 40 million. For a railroad that will NEVER pay for itself, since it can not possibly generate the traffic necessary from that small a population to justify its construction.
And of course, they will have more than blown through more than the $40 Billion dollars the public was told that a complete San Francisco to Los Angeles high speed railroad would cost just to build this short line, leaving the most expensive part of the rout unbuilt in a massive bait-and-switch con game. Which they fantasize can be completed for $88 Billion, more than twice what they sold the voters the system would cost. Hell, they have even lowered the bar from a San Francisco to Los Angeles HSR line. Now they are only planning to build from Gilroy to Palmdale-Lancaster.....where they hope that the Bay Area & Los Angeles transit agencies will magically build the remainder of their system for ten cents on the dollar. If this were private industry, they would have long since been forced into receivership by their shareholders.... But because these are pigs feeding at the public trough, they are oblivious to the costs.
Countless tax dollars down the drain, how about building a new water reservoirs to capture rain water? Last reservoir was built in 1979 in California, we need water more than a train nobody will use.
wow finally👍
Exactly how many short few years are we talking about here 🤔
I give it a 30year for completion.
this announcer is so professional and great.... love her !
Railfans love it
The New York City subway took 70 years to build to 95% of current system (1870-1940). Total build time of CAHSR will be much less. (Comparable number of track miles.)
So glad this project is moving forward. I never understood the people who opposed this project
"Public transportation is communism... at least that's what the government officials whose parties are funded by fossil fuel companies tell me."
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HSR from Sacramento directly to San Francisco would’ve been better.
You would think they would have started with actually connecting two places that people will travel between. Instead, they did this so it will keep the project on the hook so it will have to be completed and it could be justified finishing. Not to mention lots of people are making money off of this now.
This project makes me really happy. The US should be full of such construction sites.
It is unbelievable in what condition the rail network of the largest economy in the world is, which often corresponds to the network of an emerging country.
Hardly any high-speed lines. Some train stations in large cities are similar to those in the villages of Europe.
It is even more difficult to understand why many US citizens oppose the railroad. I love the US, but the rail network is way behind.
From Cologne (1.1 million inhabitants) to Düsseldorf (600,000 inhabitants) more than 10 tracks run to the right and left of the Rhine to accommodate the enormous number of different trains.
LOL, the US has the most efficient and advanced freight railroad system in the world. Americans want to fly and drive. We also have the most complete interstate highway system in the world. Please stop conflating our lack of passenger rail, which no American wants to travel by, with some ridiculous notion our rail system is behind everyone else.
@@jirky015 How do you know that no American would want to travel on high speed trains when they hardly exist ?
On the Boston-Washington, San Diego-San Francisco, or around Chicago routes, high speed trains are a great complement.
Congratulations on the interstates that are perpetually congested in the regions mentioned above.
@@ubiorumopidum3649 Congratulations, you're talking about areas that already have established passenger rail service. I have no issue with HSR if it makes sense. Your conflation that because the US doesn't have any extensive HSR it's on the same level to an "emerging country". That is so beyond exaggerated, hyperbolic and extremely false it's laughable.
Concrete never looked so beautiful!
As a European Railway Engineer I can happily say. The ridiculous cost overruns of this project are primarily a result of lack of investigative skills as to how you should or should NOT build these super high speed railways. Many countries now have such systems including Morocco & shortly Egypt ! Building these types of railway on miles of elevated structure is plain stupid, especially if they have to pass through earthquake zones ! Not only do elevated structures cost huge amounts to construct, they take years longer, and once built require constant & expensive continuous maintenance. If built on the ground roads/rivers/other railways, need only a bridge over or under the new line. Along with a cheap but continuous security fence to keep suicidal idiots out !
Another problem is how is the huge electrical power required to move 16,000hp electric trains at 200mph + going to be provided for ? I have not heard of any plans to build another Nuclear power station in the region, for this railway !!!!
Mhhh The segment that was approved and budgeted is for the cities of Madera to Bakersfield....in other words, we tax payers spent dozens of billions of dollars so that two poor towns full of immigrants can travel at high speed?..... 😔🤔
I wanna know why I have to go through LA to get to the Central Valley? You're taking me all the way to the north end of the Inland Empire then making a hard left to LA. Why not go up the Cajon Pass and hang a left along the 138 and skirt the LA Trap all together? Come on Sacramento *THINK!*
How many companies' contractors are involved in this project ? I was in the Philippines, and they have a project called North and South railway project and so many contractors company involved in the project and funding by Jica Japanese..
The Central Valley was supposed to be the "cheap" part of the project. Look at all the bridges, viaduct etc. they are building. Because they chose the wrong route. Should have followed I5.
Farmers of Stanislaus and San Joaquin county will never vote for construction of CA high speed rail. It's defeated every year and probably always will
I'm not sure which will be completed first: California high speed rail (at least to LA) or the I-5 Interstate bridge between Portland and Vancouver. Both seem hopeless.
Greenhouse emission free, faster traveling, and more jobs in the economy. Why not!? Can't wait! 🙏🏽
The LA Times published that the original estimate for the train was $33 billion and now the estimate is $100 billion. Something is wrong here.
just wondering how much those arches cost lmfao.... awesome design....but at the expense of funds not going to other non decorative things lol
Notice they don't dare talk about cost overruns, delays and schedule failures. Tax payers will absorb the cost of this debacle.
Booo high speed rail sucks make it better it only goes 220 mph Japan’s maglev goes atleast 600 mph
Waste of taxpayers money. California highways need maintenance and improvement.🤔
Saw an article the other day saying that it's a good thing California's high speed rail will never be as efficient as China.
Ok.
Then how about being as efficient as Japan? Or Korea? They've got high speed rail too and it didn't take them decades to build it.
Or Spain. Or Germany. Or Italy. Or France. Or the UK. Or...
Indonesia.
The politicians and their friends needed time to buy the land before it is bought by the State for waay over market value. This is a racket
Speed up California. People don't live forever, we want to see the High Speed Train soon!
consequences of living in a first world country...slow development cycles
U guys are freaking greedy is just all about the money no one is going to pay 300 dollars a ticket
Is going to be slow only 220 mph
Who knows
This project should hàve been done 19 years ago and a decade later shame on u guys
High speed rail is a joke china built a maglev train that goes 373 mph
Pfff. More like low speed rail. But at least it is being built.
This project is probably doing more harm than good
What is the music pleaser? It won’t Shazam.
Imagine the people u piss off by u guys building this thing
Why is the development so slow?
The politicians and their friends have to get paid. What a racket. It’s way over budget and behind schedule. The costs have ballooned from $40 billion when quoted to voters, to now $100 billion and growing. What’s worse is the high speed rail will undoubtedly operate at a loss like most rail projects do and so will be a net drain for taxpayers. Other than all that, it’s just peachy!
As many people as possible what if some people don't want it
Opening so many jobs then how come my son doesn’t have a job
I bet the first class cabins would be expensive
U guys should hire the Chinese to build they do it faster
They also need security checkpoints
I already have Caltrain that runs by my house
It needs sound barriers that's what it needs
I want California High Speed Rail.
I’d rather ride Amtrak, Coaster, and/or Metrolink’s SC-44 charger diesel-electric and f125 diesel-electric train than waste money on a HSR train which this project is a bust. Just another money grabbing politician such as Newsom and the radical left. It’s a high speed fail!!!
@@aaronmiller5012 Visit any country with HSR, then come back and tell me how HSR fails.
Any developed country always have high-speed rail systems. This project should have been done 30 years ago!
USA ain’t developed
@@qjtvaddict You did not nitice the sarcasm in my comment?
Couldn't high speed rail get areested
Lol finally found drivers license
66 billion dollar they can give that to me
Um should have been done 19 years ago