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I'm well aware of (and have personally suffered) all of that: BART's Oakland Wye delaying trains, suicide-by-train, the value of grade separations, and of Clem's Caltrain-HSR blog …

Fully on agree on trying to get costs down to Spanish-levels and other developed world costs, and building everywhere while saving money. But the reasons for the dysfunction are pr…

Caltrain electrification project is independent/notdependent on CAHSR and also not dependent on grade separation projects, which seem to be tackled individually/ad-hoc in partnersh…

I wish we had rail, including HSR, everywhere but the real world comes with financial constraints. While a Central Coast trunk alignment would be nice, any reasonable analysis indi…

I agree with your post thread. A lot of people uninitiated in railways think of HSR as an airplanes on rails. HSR =/= Airline. Trains have a number of advantages, one of which is a…

>One of the lines is from downtown to an airport You don’t provide enough specifics about your local situation, but it’s been long noted that airport rail lines underperform. The a…

CAHSR’s mainline is intended to be SF-LA via the Central Valley, and connect the major cities along the way. Some of those valley have around a 1m+ people or will grow to that over…

I've noticed this too in China and the B&R rail projects, and while it would be nice to have double stack containers, consider Chinese engineers are making a reasonable set of trad…

There are overhead electric rail lines supporting double stack freight in the NEC USA, China, India, and possibly elsewhere. There are YouTube videos and images on web. AAR Plate H…

Indeed, Chicago and the Mississippi River is the dividing line in the North American rail network. UP and BNSF dominate western US, CSX and NS the eastern US, CN and CP dominate Ca…

>> Ships This is true by approximate order of cost, but it does not show how large the differences are. Trucking can be up to 10X, an order of magnitude, more expensive than train …

> Few places need the theoretical density that buses provide and even less need the level that rail provides. Almost every major urban city and metropolitan area needs buses and ra…

Many U.S. credit unions are members of CO-OP Financial Services [0], a cooperative of cooperatives, which provides shared ATM and branch services. Effectively making it one of the …

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>I don't really think that was in the cards. The car was already prevalent before the interstate system was built, and the military was much more about a road solution than rail. T…

Great points about public vs private owned networks, private competition at “higher layers in the stack” of a publicly owned network, and building a durable political coalition aro…

>By cost per ton mile, in which US freight rail is cheaper than almost any other country in the world, including China. That likely won’t last assuming it is still true. China’s ra…

>The US picked a different optimization. The combination of transportation modes from Rail, Truck, and Barge are amazingly important to the health of the country. Passenger rail ha…

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