California High Speed Rail Visual Tour

High Quality version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2-tS3-glz4

Created by NC3D for the California High Speed Rail Authority, this video is a combination of various animated renderings of the proposed high speed rail route throughout the state of California.

www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov

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Science & Technology

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• California
• High
• Speed
• Rail
• Authority
• Full
• Route
• Visual
• NC3D

[neilutubename]

I voted for this thing, but now im not so sure about my decision.. It appears to go right past my house.. Does anyone know if the train is expected to use the existing rail lines along monterey highway in South San Jose. I imagine that thing is going to be loud as hell and will cut my property value in half.

[oddperson12]

The new train will be far quieter than the existing trains along your house because it is electric and there will be no grade crossings so no reason for it to ever blow its whistle. You may see more trains per day on the rail line, but they will be much less noticeable than what you have now.

[taofledermaus]

It MUST have a dedicated line and not share a rail with freight.

It must NOT have any RR crossings.

It has to be cheaper than flying, but offer similar time-to-destination.

I have a problem with paying twice for something like this. You pay in taxes to build it and maintain it whether or not you use it, and you pay again if you want to use it. I think if it was economically viable, private enterprise would have jumped on it long ago.

[oddperson12]

The CA High Speed Rail Authority is building the line on exactly the principals you stated - dedicated line, no grade crossings, and cheaper than flying yet faster door-to-door times.

[unknownsoldier30]

This is a really overdue idea, buy my only question about the current plan is, why does the route swing out so far to include palmdale airport? it doesnt seem like it would be the most efficient.

[oddperson12]

There has been a lot of debate over that, and some opponents see it as the High Speed Rail Authority buckling to local government lobbying (the impact to Palmdale would be huge). The official and logical reason is that it allows for 3 airports in the LA region to be tied together via high speed rail, alleviating pressure on LAX and allowing a redistribution of passengers for domestic flights away from LAX.

[jpbalkenende]

Never mind the cost of upgrading the socialist Eisenhower interstates and airports ;). HSR is great, fast, convenient, efficient and safe. Big start up costs sure, but they will pay off considering the external effects.

[Sonnyville919]

people need to understand, as they were saying, that population in california will continue to grow, california is a hot spot. it's about time we invested on better public transportation systems. this will unite north and southern california. although along with this project, i hope they would also improve the existing infrastructure and public transportation within the LA area. improve the metro blue line etc.

[DarthWray1138]

What about a high speed train going from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and back? I have been hearing about that train to. What happen to that plan?

[MrEiriku]

@zetterling1 are you homer simpson?

[nashville1510]

California looks pretty awesome

[HurriCanes0698]

What is the song in the background

[sideslide23]

there is a great chance that California will loose the project because right now there teapartying the Govenor Brown like they did with Rick Scott to kill the florida High speed rail. pariently there no room or place to lay any more tracks and the cost is now over $50 billions and climbinb so there is a great chance that Brown will Kill the project before we get through 13 months.

[lokeradekadente81]

So what happened to this plan?

[s2k997]

@vikusa2008 Uhhh, the UK does have High Speed Rail. The Intercity 225 roll around at 140 MPH, when the signalling finishes upgrading in the next three years. The Intercity 125 is the definative High Speed Train, the fastest diesel powered train in the world. The Eurostars running since 1994, on High Speed Rail, at speeds of 186 MPH. Many of Britain's systems are borderline HSR, but the already paid for signalling shift to radio beacons instead of lights will allow the same trains to go faster.

[temporalpitmage]

It'll be as good as Amtrak!!!!

Oh, wait...

[gibb1991]

@taofledermaus Actually, it will be a private company operating the system. After Amtrak was established, several laws were passed making competition against the federal company very difficult, scaring away any private/public-private enterprises like the ones in Europe. Thankfully, more companies, like DesertXpress (2014), are making strides to form fuly private operations once again in the U.S. HSR is a big money maker as proven all over, no taxes will be used for operations or maintanence.