A high-speed rail line in California is chugging along towards 2030 debut

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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.

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨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!

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- Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s the easy stretch to complete. It’ll be another 15 to actually connect SF and LA.
  
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- electriccars@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Do the easiest part first to prove it can be done successfully. It’s the pilot basically.
  
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- variaatio@sopuli.xyz ⁨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.
  
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  - gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨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.
    
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- Klystron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The central valley eating good for once
  
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ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ll believe it when I’m on it.

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- catch22@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Right? This has been rehashed so many times over the years. I’ve lost count.
  
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Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
But wait, Elon has a better idea …

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- reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “okay but what if single-occupancy trains where every possible destination has its own train yard that you can pay to leave your single occupancy train in? They would leave on your schedule and go where you’re going.”
  
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  - vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sounds brilliant. I bet we can find some fee-waived trainyards in popular areas too.
    
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