California High Speed Rail Visual Tour - High Quality

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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• High
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• CAHSR

[promontorium]

I supported the HSR when it was a HSR. Now it's a slow train to nowhere gobbling up billions and accomplishing absolutely nothing. They have completely abandoned all their original plans. It won't be fast, it won't be cheap, it won't be a plane by time or cost. The people in charge have certainly gotten theirs, travelling the world staying in luxury hotels getting wined and dined by international players. Paying themselves hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer money.

[scaremenga]

@berto3141 Meh... my opinion on the HSR project varies on a daily basis.

[berto3141]

@scaremenga Your naivete is most impressive. The very idea that this superexpensive project would "pay itself off in a relatively short time" is HILARIOUS, since it would operate in the red year after year. The current price tag is pegged at $43 billion but most serious estimates put the cost at around $100 billion. And people won't want to take it because they'll need cars at either end!

[berto3141]

@scaremenga Ha, ha, ha: $40 billion? This thing would cost at least $100 billion to build and would operate at a loss, which would violate Prop. 1A.

[scaremenga]

@promontorium Two years later.. less than one thousand views. No. NOBODY cares.

[promontorium]

@scaremenga I think I've been bamboozled. I admit, I fell for the HSR. I still want an HSR, and I think it would be the greatest thing in Calfornia, but I now realize the people in charge don't actually care.

[scaremenga]

@gibb1991 Thanks for that information. In that case, I support it. Job opportunities provided by this venture in addition to paying itself off in a relatively short time frame make it a good thing.

[gibb1991]

@scaremenga Actually, no. $10 billion has been secured in private bonds (not taxes), a $2.3 billion grant came from the government (not as much as it sounds, about $7.60 per taxpayer). That's it. The rest will come from private investors and the profits from the private operator(s), which will pay off the rest of the rail line and produce a positive return for the bonds. In 10-15 years, the line will cease to have any involvement with the government and be owned by private companies.

[sideslide23]

@kshroyer74 The New Station for the HSR in San Fransisco is underconstruction right now after they finish Demolishing the old one and it will searve the HSR allong with Buses and Caltrain.

[kshroyer74]

@sideslide23 Don't expect it to, this project has been talked about for 20 years...