119 miles of California High Speed Rail Drone Footage!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- This is an overview of the southern portion of the under-construction high speed rail line in California. Construction began in 2016 and it is expected to be complete in 2022.
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When it's done I wouldn't mind having a single shot drone view of the entire length.
Knowing the awesomeness of this channel, I suspect there is a 99% likelihood for this. It’s going to take a while though!
come back in 10 years
@@carstarsarstenstesenn I just set a reminder for 12/16/2031. I'll meet you here that day.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn 10 years is optimistic.
When it's done there will already be economy rocket rides to our Mars colonies.
Absolutely genius. Thank you.
An extra: it would be cool to have a minimap of the whole thing with the current position.
Synthwave? Check.
CAHSR construction footage? Check.
Severe budget overruns? Check.
Yup, it's *CAHSR construction update* -time
Hotel? Trivago
Asshole reply? Check.
I did a really nice holiday round tour of California and the adjacent states several years ago visiting the national parks. When this thing gets finished I think I'll come again from Europe, this time with my family, and a trip on the HSR will definitely part of it then! :-) Thanks for these awesome videos!
We hope that the right let this thing get done faster!! And not later!
@@californiamade5608 do you know what the current outlook is on completion? I want to finally visit California but I'm holding out till at least part of it is finished enough so that I can finally ride an HSR.
@@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife this segment is slated to be in operation by 2027. But California likes to take its time so I’m guessing late 2028 or early 2029.
Hi John, are you going to do an update of the progress this year? I sure hope so, your videos are awesome! It would be wonderful to see the progress on these 119 miles since last year.
The UK is getting its own high speed rail line known as HS2 that will go from London Euston to Birmingham Curzon Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport, Leeds and Scotland.
Thank you for this video. Good choice of background music. I played it at 2x so I could watch the entire thing. The sheer size of California is hard to grasp. To link communities together with high speed rail? It was really audacious to even think this could be done. See it happening is so amazing. We have the technology to make it happen. We have to maintain a positive outlook. It will happen. Rome wasn't built in a day . . . I grew up in Merced. San Fransisco was four hours by car, Los Angeles was eight hours by car. Bakersfield was a place to get gas and eat before heading up the Grapevine hill (SR 99) with less then half the drive to Los Angeles still ahead of us, more hours in the car - oh joy.
That was really impressive. I never expected to see a video with the whole route from Bakersfield to Fresno!
Wasco, about 15 miles north of Bakersfield, to Madera, about 30 miles north of Fresno. Before they open it, they will extend it north to Merced to temporarily link up with the future ACE commuter trains to San Jose, and south to Bakersfield. This is the minimally operable segment to commence operations.
I’ll see you in 2030 and we can ride the train from Bakersfield to Merced.
The effort put into this video is crazy. Great shots I'll be back in 10 years to see your video when its finally done
It will never be done.
@@cotwodogger5812 i shouldve been done years ago
Along the path of HSR there are some additional cleared areas. Unsure of their purpose...perhaps a location for electrical infrastructure. Or perhaps a staging area for evacuating passengers if the train is stopped.
Thanks for the video 👍. I watched the whole thing (at 2x speed). It is interesting to see how much right-of-way has been cleared. A lot of complex infrastructure needs to be done in Fresno, though.
Beautiful video like and subscribed from Czech Republic 🙂👍👍👍
Thanks a lot!
I'm really enjoying this video, the potential here, as with Paterson 1970 before I 5 population about 2500, today near 30K...now if we can just figure in maintainable water levels...
Damn, there’s a lot of willfully ignorant comments under this thread but also some gems. Loved the video as always!
Thanks!
Drone footage like this really makes me feel like i'm in a simulation
If Simulated Worlds are possible, ( There would be many running, Thus this would be the fake , not base reality... ( Custom Universe ) Abc Catalyst
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It's a lie of I told you i watched the whole thing but i definitely watched a bit great job man, the state of California should be begging at your feet to keep this as future archive material
How can we raise money for you to create these videos 2-4 times a year? How long did this take you? At least until we have some daily or live satellite images... I think this is the year where we finally have daily google earth pro updated imagery, pretty quick it'll be live data... crazy. But would love to see more of this, especially with a map to the right... fun to play this at 5x
You can see workers in action on the Wasco Viaduct at 6:09
I knew it was big, but seeing it in one long shot really drives home that Phase 1A, while pared down, is still an MASSIVE project. Good for California.
Watched it again. Very high speed alignment. 350kph. Huge agriculture. Great editing. Music very good too.
Is anything happening between LA and Bakesfield? One would think, that this stretch would be the most important and give Bakersfield kind of Suburb status to LA.
Environment reviews were just cleared last month. A huge step forward
CAHSR's current plan is to get the Merced-Bakersfield route finished and ready for train testing and interim HSR service ASAP, then extend to San Jose and SF and initiate SF-Bakersfield service before continuing south to LA and Anaheim. I'm not sure how much pre-construction work will be done on Tehachapi Pass and beyond while construction happens over Pacheco Pass to San Jose and SF, but having it environmentally cleared does allow for some early construction activity to happen, pending funding. The priority once the Valley is done is get to SF then turn to LA (or at least as far as I'm aware based on the latest I've seen from CAHSR). It all comes down to how much funding can CAHSR get, and where to prioritize that funding to maximize its return.
@@ChrisJones-gx7fc Interesting how in "the land of unlimited opportunities" the oppertunities for getting HSR built in something less than a generation seem to be very limited... :-) Seems that Generation Tesla is too busy investing in wank-projects rather than something that would better everyone's lives...
1:40:12 looks like someone did some sick donuts in that empty lot lol
Yes lol
Starting point is Bakersfield?
I live in California and I always wondered what this was for. I guess I know now. Hopefully it doesn't receive further delays.
Nice job putting it all together. It's fun to see the project, as I live in Hanford, CA.
Thanks!
It’s sad how Hanford got the train and not Visalia. Visalia is the biggest city between Fresno and Bakersfield it would’ve only made sense.
I've seen updates on the HSR posted recently by the rail authorities, is this channel dead, or will there be more content? 🤔
Would love to see a side-by-side map to show the current location.
Nice moive! )) )
Thanks!
Amazing drone work. These videos are so informative and interesting!
Thanks a lot!
this is a great vid! thanks! we have watched the whole thing over a couple days and stopped many times and compared to gowgle earth views. also... did u notice at 50.00 to 50.05 the air turbulence from your drone causes some kind a debris to blow up and flip over near a pole of some type on the left side of center screen? ( ha ha)
I; for one, real enjoy seeing all the redevelopment in the Fresno area. If that could be a separate video; personally, I'd love it. But, the entire 119-mile video is fantastic! It'll be interesting to see how they tie-in the Madera extension to the Sacramento and Bay Area portions of the HSR?
the HSR will do wonders for the "nowhere" cities the doubters love to call them. Every excited for areas like Fresno
2x speed also works surprisingly well, music- and footage-wise. Speedrun!
Dude, the music is fucking amazing, I'm rewatching just for that.
How many drone batteries did you go through to get this incredible amount of footage?
A few lol. I have 6 batteries per drone, so 12 total. I was constantly charging them and believe it or not, that was all shot in two days.
@@TheFourFoot Absolute legend.
Hey what's your equipment of choice, by the way? It's 4K60 so it's not a Mavic 2 then. Mavic Air 3? DJI Inspire?
IMO, the most difficult portions of CAHSR remain to be built. To the south, the problem of getting into LA basin at average speeds of 200kph. A lot of truly complex engineering. Very complex geology adds to the costs of additional litigation and consequent financial shenanigans. So, too, with San Francisco (but the Bay Area is far closer to Sack-of-tomatoes, so the politics is even more hideous.)
All portions of the CAHSR have turned out to be the "most" difficult for different reasons that in the end only result in delays and increased costs. Unfortunately, in the USA, its the norm. We are a very litigious society and everyone wants to have their minute in the limelight. Though the section from Bakersfield to Palmdale has had it's final EIMR finally approved so construction shouldn't be too far behind.
@@theexmann The problem ironically is money. How many billions were spent before the first shovelful of dirt in the "real world"? How many tens of thousands of people- from lawyers to property owners to local city governments- made out like a bandit? How many politicians pocketed how many millions in Sackoftomatoes? It's the California version of NYC infrastructure related corruption except there are even more two bit weasels.
@@WizenedVariations1 That's conspiracy nonsense. You obviously have no idea what goes into building the largest infrastructure project in the USA in decades.
The problem is the lack of funds for public infrastructure in the USA. We have some of the worst infrastructure of any modern country in the world by comparison. We were the envy of the world in the 60s when we spent much more on infrastructure. Now we are a laughing stock.
@@theexmann It would've cost China 5x less to do the same project. There is a lot of corruption and cost overruns.
Is the map at the beginning created by CAHSR or is that made by you?
I made it haha
@@TheFourFoot nicely done!
This was taken from construction review online.
Voters in 2008 approved a nearly US$ 10bn bond, with most of the money dedicated to “establish high-speed train service linking Southern California counties, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.”, but rail officials now want to take most of what’s left, about US$ 4.1bn, to finish the 119-mile segment of track from Madera to Bakersfield.
That segment will run and test trains until a larger, 171-mile track is completed for passenger service from Bakersfield to Merced. Trains aren’t expected to be in service for passenger use until 2029.
That $4.2 billion is what's left in Prop 1A, which was all earmarked for high speed rail, and is being held up in the State Legislature, namely by a couple of SoCal-area Democrats, Anthony Rendon and Laura Friedman. They seem adamant on preventing those funds from being released to CAHSR, saying those funds would be better spent on transit projects in their districts and pushing an idea to use battery-powered trains on the initial segment, which would make it not high speed (the world has proved HSR has to use electrification). There already are funds for CA transit projects including in their LA-area districts, so taking that $4.2 billion would just take it away from HSR and go against the will of the voters from 2008. Those voters approved $9 billion for high speed rail, and CAHSR is working to deliver that promise.
The longer those funds are held up, the longer the project will take and subsequently more it will cost. It is crucial those funds get released ASAP so the Central Valley segment can stay on its current schedule and be ready for revenue service by the end of this decade. Once HSR trains start running and carrying passengers, there should be a greater push to extend to SF and LA/Anaheim ASAP.
Completion in 2022..? But seems like most of the line is still dirt road at this time..? Physical construction work is probably the easiest part compared to getting the funds, permits, land, legal issues etc... but still to complete the construction phase in 2022 seems unlikely to me...
CAHSR expects to award the Track & Systems contract later this year, so that construction could begin as early as next year, for the current 119 miles which should be extended to the full 171 miles once those extensions are ready for track and systems. They remain committed to interim revenue service between Merced and Bakersfield beginning by 2030.
anyone else wake up to this?
are you still going to try to put a video together with your ride from the train? otherwise excellent work on this video, your time and effort in doing it is greatly appreciated
I will come back 40 years
Earthworks and land movement, I believe, that the work is 70/80% and the works of art, bridges and growths with roads and other works at 15/20%
Are you planning on doing a 2022 update video?
All these new grade separations will improve traffic safety, even regardless of the trains. It looks great!
Raised ROW goes on for miles... where are they getting all that fill ???
Probably from an empty desert. California has a huge amount of empty land so they probably just truck it in from the closest empty desert/mountain area.
When is the first stretch of the route anticipated to begin passenger service? 2029? 😢
Officially 2027 but I wouldn't be surprised if it were 29/30
the latest estimate, and goal CAHSR is committed to, is by 2030. So it could be sooner than that, but it depends namely on funding and acquiring the remaining right of way quickly so utility relocation and heavy construction can begin ASAP. CAHSR expects to award the contract for track & systems later this year, and begin train procurement in 2023.
I'd love to see revenue train service begin in July 2028 to coincide with the start of the LA Olympics, just as Japan did with the first Shinkansen at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, so domestic and international tourists in LA for the Games could experience America's first true high speed rail line to visit Northern CA. Bakersfield-Merced service isn't ideal (full LA-SF would have been), but I'd argue it's still an opportunity worth pursuing and is partly why California needs to double down on its high speed rail project and push to get trains running ASAP.
@@ChrisJones-gx7fc well and now they got all the funding needed to complete the Merced-Bakerfield section
Can you do a video a about the red line in Baltimore
A 2-hour video posted 1 hour ago somehow has >200 views.
Yeah RUclips counts it as a view if you click on it lol.
Is this north bound or south bound?
Northbound
How many at grade crossings will there be? Seems like more than I anticipated..
it is empty will tak 100 years done in usa
how come there's no voiceover in the video. Also how manny stations that will be in the central valley?
You can watch his construction package section videos for narration
There will be 5 stations in the valley (in phase 1 of the statewide program). Merced, Madera, Fresno, Hanford, and Bakersfield…and yes, I have voiceovers for the 3 individual construction packages (each their own video). I only threw this video up because I wanted 1 single video that showed the whole segment currently under construction.
@@TheFourFoot thank you
Around 55:46 you almost lost your drone in a tornado!
A truly monumental video. Quite the achievement.
Just look at all those people working...
Hey, John, hope all is ok with you - any update(s) on CHSR? Just curious, thanks! :)
It’s been a year with no contact now. I don’t know what’s going on but I’m hoping he’s okay.
Amazing! Thank you!
A huge scar on the landscape of California. It is a project that will NEVER be completed. California is broke, America is broke and there is no money to complete the project.
Why do 57km sheer high speed Rail tunnel only cost 15 billion dollars in Switzerland and less than 1000km above ground 800billion dollars in California??? In my calculation 300 billion should already be very generous...
Longer and many tunnels. And where did you get 800 billion from
Just watched a video about the Brightline project in Florida. Only 125 mph, but nonetheless. Great to see there is progress on high speed passenger rail in the US
Check out testing videos of the avelia liberty - very excited for that
Wondering about how HSR will affect new housing subdivisions along its path.
It will definitely be interesting to see. Outside of the immediate station areas, I doubt there will be too much new housing built near the tracks…
@@TheFourFoot Perhaps new highrise condos will be built near the stations for commuters living in the Central Valley but commuting by HSR to the Bay Area or LA Basin.
@@mushieslushie The pandemic has shifted California's population somewhat from the Bay Area to the Sacramento area and Central Valley. Most of those people can work remotely from home. Many people commute by car from Sacramento and the Central Valley to the Bay Area for work.
@@mushieslushie Higher wages in the Bay Area and lower housing costs in Sacramento and the Central Valley. If you are under age 40 a commute like that is more tolerable. HSR will allow commuters to sleep, relax, or work on their tablets or laptops.
Also, even if there isn’t a new skyscraper district on the west side of say downtown Fresno, which is incredibly unlikely to happen, there is a lot of underutilized land there that were former industrial properties served by SP. many of those properties had to be demolished for HSR and hence there is plenty of land available for medium density development that will likely be developed just as Fresno grows.
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Where does this video start and where did it end? Great video though.
Excellent video
Out of curiosity, have you considered making a video about the DC Silver Line Phase 2?
Thanks! Yeah I’ve definitely thought about it lol. I need to just make it.
Fascinating. Thank you!
SOUND TRACK IS DOPE!
EPIC! great jorb
which will opening first between CAHSR and Thailand Northeast HSR, so exciting.
It’s hilarious how little progress they’ve made over the past 14 years of planning and “construction”
It's really sad to me.... but we're a bit over-democratized... if we were more of an egalitarian socialized democracy, the project would speed along and only take 10 years to build from San Diego/Riverside/LA to San Francisco/Sacramento/Portland/Seattle... with the Vegas extension... if we were a non-democratic socialist nation like China then it'd be done in 5 years and you could extend that to Denver/Chicago/New York and Phoenix/Tucson/Dallas/Houston/New Orleans/Tampa/Orlando/Miami... seriously. Remember, in 1869 Central Pacific laid 10 miles of track in a single day... in 1869. These days creating railbed, laying track, building bridges, etc. can be done very quickly using a lot of automated equipment... we just give people 10-20 chances to challenge and appeal things, and those delay projects. Still, as long as the debt was secured when rates were close to 0%, this thing has the chance to be massively profitable... think about the monthly payment on $100B in debt, then think of that cost on a 'cost per rider' basis... as time increases, we have an even lower cost of debt (it's locked in before inflation, remember, hence why a 3% mortgage rate over time is like 0.5% averaged)... so this has a chance to be very profitable even as cost per KwH for solar over time for this project should be around 1/2 of 1 cent per KwH ... yes, you read that right... right now commercial cost is 2.1 cents, here in Arizona I pay 3 cents for residential off-peak.... 1/8th of what it is on-peak... insane.... store it up when it's cheap, use it whenever...
I posted that from my other account... sorry... just would love a good conversation sometime, we're a bit too divided these days lol...... have a good day.
Really? Considering that they broke ground 7 years ago
Realistically, have the biggest beneficiaries to this project to date been highway users and the private freight companies? It seems like a large number of overpasses and underpasses have been built for personal vehicle/freight. In comparison to other high speed rail projects built in more rural areas have there been the same expense paid to these as compared to California Highspeed rail or is this paying to appease American love of personal vehicles?
Does anyone know why so many stops have been put in the middle of nowhere? Is this a strategic move to appease these counties or are they planning transit oriented development around them? To there layman (me) it seems like they are adding stop unnecessarily adding time and expense.
those “nowhere” stops are only nowhere compared to LA and the Bay. But they have hundreds of thousands of people, fresno has over a million.
These are major population centers.
Even Palmdale/antelope valley has a population comparable to the Kansas City Metro.
Existing infrastructure is used by local people; if they want to use that right of way they have to build those grade separations from existing roads.
To add on to `look at this guy here', I believe they will have some express trains that don't stop at every station, but to not service the central valley would only further increase the inequality between the coastal areas and the central valley. I think part of the reason they chose the route they did and not along I-5 is to connect the poorer interior with the richer coastal areas, hopefully stimulating central valley's economy.
Building tracks crossing streets seem counterproductive to HSR and kind of dangerous. Land rights are quite complex in the US. Large-scale farms and other businesses would add to that issue. I don't think anyone expects CAHSR to be profitable and the fact that CA GDP grew almost 7% is projected to increase much more. Compared to Germany's 3% GDP growth. CA simply just may have the cash to spend. If you look at other HSR attempts in US states they are all privately owned rail companies. Tells you the priority in those states.
Servicing only SF and LA will just encourage more people to move into those areas further exhausting housing capacity and raising competition for resources. Another reason to bypass the 5 HWY is that it is mostly desolate compared to Central Valley CA. Also, my experience with CA cities' education system is it's horrible compared to the suburbs. So places like Fresno and Merced residents would be quite competitive in the major CA job market. A welcome to the growing of out-of-state residents in LA and SF.
A flaw to Europe's HSR layout is it tends to congregate in one city. Like Paris or Frankfurt. Literally creating a bottleneck with its high speeds and further complicating the logistics of living in major cities. I do think the shape of countries plays a part. It seems to be the most efficient servicing elongated countries or regions like Japan even though their HSR is centralized around Toyko but that seems inevitable. People keep saying the culture is what makes HSR in Japan great but I do think the layout is significant too.
It is a shame that billions of tax dollars are going to fix the bullet train to nowhere.
It only has one track? How is this gonna be high speed?
It has no tracks yet, but will be double tracked the whole way
The entire 119 miles will be done in 2022?
Only these construction packages. so without rail, signaling, overhead wires, etc. basically just the barebone alignment
Should check your facts. 1:06:45 it is SR-198 Hanford Expressway, not SR-148. I lived in Hanford for 3 years! I know!
that alignment is what corruption looks like
Explain how
It’s called progress cry baby
A multi-billion dollar gash