The state's High-Speed Rail Authority will soon begin accepting proposals from electric train manufacturers ahead of a proposed 2030 debut.

A high-speed rail line in California is chugging along towards 2030 debut::The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority will soon begin accepting proposals from electric train manufacturers ahead of a proposed 2030 debut.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    552·
    1 year ago

    Once selected and constructed, the high-speed trains would top out at 242 mph while traversing a 171-mile starter segment connecting Central Valley’s Bakersfield and Merced

    Oh wow! In only 6.5 years, I’ll be able to get from 2/3 of the way to San Francisco to 3/4 of the way to Los Angeles very efficiently!

    I swear we’re going to be litigated into irrelevance with all this NIMBY idiocy.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      That’s the easy stretch to complete. It’ll be another 15 to actually connect SF and LA.

      • TanakaAsuka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        But without main population centres is it going to be done successfully? Imo they should have started with one of the ends, so that at least there is a big trip destination.

        Too late for that now and I really hope it works out and we get a good example for north american high speed rail projects to point to despite everything.

        • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          They would be waiting forever if they wanted to break ground in downtown la or sf first.

          You can’t will car lobbies and nimbys to action, you have to coerce the general public and the state, and this incomplete rail will be the coercion.

          Honestly it’s a brilliant strategy for a shitty situation. After this phase, if they somehow don’t get permission to complete the line, they would never have gotten rail built between the cities anyway.

          • TanakaAsuka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I just hope it works so that people can shut up with the high speed rail only works in other places garbage. Just tell them to go visit california and see how good it is… Only works if they finish it so I hope they do.

    • variaatio@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Oh wow! In only 6.5 years

      Then again look it this way… Once the lining has been built it will serve California for centuries, just as the original built rail corridors have. The rail tech might change, but the cleared out suitably shallow contoured corridor remains. For centuries.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I hope you’re right, but having grown up in California, and being very familiar with NIMBY shit there as well as in the northeast… I don’t think you are.