Really need to get industry professionals on the board.. Some members waste time asking questions as if this is their first time hearing about the project. Otherwise, it's good to hear the progress on the M-M & Bakersfield LGA sections! I hope we get ROW and Utility charts for both areas when they start acquisition and pre-construction so we can follow along and celebrate with the Authority.

@chromebomb

2 ай бұрын

totally, we have a group of people who never taken transit who are building a train

@jeffreypierson2064

2 ай бұрын

You are confusing directing with building. It is the job of the staff to build the project and then operate it. The job of the board is to represent the people of the State of California. You want a wide variety of people on the board to represent most of the constituencies that are needed to complete and operate the project. Industry professionals would not garner that support to complete the job and might have conflicts of interest.

Tired of people in the comments always overlooking the central valley. Fresno, in particular, is the biggest inland city in California.

This project will come out till I’m like in my 40’s

Love all the union bosses in the audience.

@darthmaul216

2 ай бұрын

Unions are great

Are they serious?? running freight trains on the same tracks under the catenaries??!!

Slightly reduce service? They are cutting it in half!

Whats a over the sholder meeting?

Create jobs! Yeah.

kzread.info/dash/bejne/noOo2tZ9gLu4iNY.htmlsi=GY29No-xbkcY5TCu This is already running while track work is still being worked on

This is from Spain, as you know, the no. 1 country in Europe high-speed-train wise. The problem I see (I am a former resident in CA.) is the political philosophy that moves the whole project: problems with land availabiliy (solved in Spain via a law of compulsory expropriation for public works that benefit the community) and funding (solved via European funds, common political policies that promote fast contruction of these vital infraestructures). You seem to be going nowhere with limited funding, land availability, and, worst of all, you have downgraded the project in the vicinity of S. Francisco. I am very sad to see this.

Taking long than expected to build high speed rail

@jeffreypierson2064

2 ай бұрын

If the federal government gave CAHSR 100 billion dollars in 2008, it would be done already. You can't build what you can't pay for.

When all is said and done, and we're left with a 171-mile train stuck in the Central Valley and no popular or political will to go over the mountain passes to SF or LA (let alone Sac or SD), who will answer for a train on mostly-flat farmland that cost $200 million PER MILE to construct? I hope and pray that I live to see the day the system is complete the way it was sold to me as a non-voting 10-year-old in 2008, but my hopes are not high. Major props to people laboring so hard for this to happen. Sad if their work ends up wasted because of waste or (maybe) corruption or (definitely) obstructionism and foot-dragging...

@aboeckmann

2 ай бұрын

I understand the skepticism. Just make sure to express your voice with your vote!

@Robert-gw1di

2 ай бұрын

Other than a string of disconnected overpasses scattered along the route, what is there to show so far? I can see a more or less completed Phase 1 by maybe 2034, and the rest shelved indefinitely.

@raygunn13

2 ай бұрын

Considering how underserved the central valley is when it comes to infrastructure/economic development; it's interesting to hear what people "think" about the millions of people living in the area by how 'disappointed' people act about giving them fast and reliable train service. These comments also ignore the now-approved SF gateway project, the Caltrain electrification project that just completed, and 4 grade separations currently being completed in Los Angeles using CAHSR funding. Like it or not, CAHSR has already moved and employed millions of Californians.

@trevoryerkes2763

2 ай бұрын

@@raygunn13 I'm not disappointed about giving this amazing thing to our fastest-growing cities; I'm expressing shock at how expensive the "cheapest" portion of CAHSR is. Not that it matters that I agree, but I DO agree with the reasoning and decision-making that put the construction in the Central Valley first. It'll be hugely disappointing if that's where this story ends, is all I'm saying.

@davidjackson7281

2 ай бұрын

@@Robert-gw1di No way phase one (LA-SF) will be completed by 2034. Perhaps the 171 mile valley segment at most.