San Francisco to San Jose Project Section Overview - FULL VIDEO

The San Francisco to San Jose project section of the California high-speed rail system will connect communities from San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties to the rest of the state. The project section will travel between stations at 4th and King in San Francisco, Millbrae-SFO (near the San Francisco International Airport), and San Jose (Diridon Station).
For more information visit www.hsr.ca.gov

[@thebajancambrian2141]

Most HSR projects in Europe and Asia were over budget and delayed but their impact proved to be an amazing success. Keep going California!!

[@OBSMProductions]

Part of that was the train company owning real estate/residential around stations to help return on funds and having places to go and retail immediately around it.

[@DJTheoSF]

Construction of 1 mile Freeway & Rail cost around $20 Million in France. The same section in California can cost over $200,000 Million for the same 1 mile section. Let that sink in ;)

[@thebajancambrian2141]

@@DJTheoSF your forgetting the part where France has had decades of rail infrastructure built in while the united states has extremely under invested in its transport infrastructure overall so obviously the costs will be higher but that doesnt change the fact that rail is a far better way of getting around large and small distances!

[@劉登宏-t4o]

Most HSR projects in Europe were over budget and delayed but not in Asia. In fact, most China's HSR projects were not over budget and delayed and it counts as 2/3 HSR in the world and more than 90% in Asia.

[@maksymporokhnavets3608]

@@DJTheoSF everything in America is more expensive . Also why do you care you are already paying for this in ur taxes. I think its better spending taxes on economy than dumping all of than into the military.

[@CookyMonzta]

Just a thought: Why do so many people, out there and here at KZbin, actually WANT this project to fail? From where I'm sitting (in New York City), this project looks like the first major project of its kind, quite likely _the_ biggest in the country, and maybe the last big chance we will have to get a HSR system of this scale in operation. Quite frankly, the reason it is expensive right now (and will remain so) is because we waited _way_ too long to get a project like this going, even while Europe and Asia put their feet on the gas pedal and floored it to no end with their projects... ...Fortunately, this project is putting a lot of people to work; and hopefully, when it is done, they may one day consider expanding it to cover the entire West Coast. 👍

[@TheKevintegra19]

It was supposed to be fast, it isn’t. It was supposed to be safe, it isn’t. It was supposed to be done by now, it isn’t.

[@richardrose2606]

@@TheKevintegra19 It was supposed to be funded with private investment. Total private investment to date: $0. Update: I should have said "partially funded". The initial proposal promised there would be some private investment.

[@johnnysan1757]

@@TheKevintegra19 it’s America, what do you expect? Nothing gets done here. Regardless, same thing happened in Japan and now look at them! Best HSR in the world

[@sw8741]

This is Jerry Browns boondoggle. Voters passed a measure in 2008 for $33 billion to fund the entire project. Its now 2022 (14 yrs later) and the best they can come up with is a "HSR" line only between Merced and Bakersfield in the Central Valley which very few would actually use, a big white elephant. Its not even close to completion. Now they say to complete the whole line between SF and LA will be $105 billion, over 3 times the cost. Where is that money going to come from? Another ballot measure? More idiot voters wanting more taxes to pay for it? Add in all the fingers in the pie (CA used to be a non union state now its run by unions) all wanting their own carve outs the $105 billion will balloon even more. The video you just watched isn't happening, its only in a "concept phase" despite all the gee whiz graphics.

[@skygge1006]

@@TheKevintegra19 if it isn’t even running yet then how do we know how fast and how safe it will be?

[@AmpereBEEP]

Awesome work everyone! We are so close to being fully ready for construction and design being funded for Phase 1! All we need now is Palmdale to Burbank to be approved and then we are fully set. Really exciting times now that a ton of milestones for the system are just on the horizon! I am especially excited for the Track and Systems contract starting at the beginning of next year as well as the Trainset Acquisition contract sometime in 2023! Lets get this done!

[@davidjackson7281]

You make inteIligent and insightful comments which I always look forward to reading. Hopefully, I will share your enthusiasm someday.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@davidjackson7281 No you won’t. You’re just an anti-rail troll who wants to cancel this project half-way.

[@brandonk9706]

@@TohaBgood2 Hey now, there's plenty of room for all of us here along with the opportunity for changing opinions. Pro-HSR Californians only outnumber Californians with negative perceptions by about 10% at last polling. There is a lot of disinformation going on against the project so if David is looking forward to reading AmpereBEEP's educational comments then more power to him!

[@TohaBgood2]

@@brandonk9706 I would normally agree, but this is definitely just a troll not an actual person. He trolls under ever single CAHSR video. He even trolls in other languages! 😁😁😁

[@davidjackson7281]

@@TohaBgood2 I always look forward to debating what I may disagree with you on and I love to call you out for your rude bully comments. Those that are afraid of free speech and fear open and civil discourse are acting like authoritarian, totalitarian communistic fascists who can only rely on insulting gaslighting tactics because they lack substantive reasoning.

[@evanpalley4896]

Love it. Would love to see full grade separations as well, but we have to start somewhere. How can we improve the likelihood that this gets fully funded faster? The sooner this is finished, the sooner the rest of the US will start seeing the benefits of investment in HSR.

[@Awesome_Aasim]

Elect a governor and a president that actually understands that our network of highways and automobile does more damage to the environment (not just earth but also poor communities) than what is being built right now. Roads and streets will always be a thing, but we should not be designing them for cars first, we should design them to serve everyone.

[@dkpqzm]

Make sure that republicans don't get control of our government

[@Awesome_Aasim]

@@dkpqzm Political party is irrelevant. Plenty of Democrats and Republicans think that investing in road infrastructure is the way to go, but the reality is America is locked into driving by automobile clubs and the auto industry lobbying congress. They even made the term "jaywalking" widespread during the 1920s and to this day a lot of roads and streets and stroads are primarily designed for cars, not for people.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

The Shinkansen bullet train was pivotal in turning Japan from a devastated postwar backwater to the economic powerhouse it is today. This is going to be _insane_ for Silicon Valley in particular-- imagine being able to go from San Jose to SF and back in one day without worrying about traffic or the security theater of the airports. And when this connects to LA, I can't wait to ride north and back.

[@paulo7200]

Wait until "the security theater of airports" finds its way to the train station.

[@sheepgarden999]

The under 3 hours trip sounds really awesome! I’d be able to hop on in LA at 7am (I’d even be able to snooze for an hour or so, can’t do that while driving!) get to SF at around 10 am. Spend the whole day in SF, hop on the train at 7pm (have another snooze) and I’m back in LA at 10pm. Suddenly, a one day vacation to SF from SoCal is feasible!

[@paulo7200]

@@sheepgarden999 Not gonna exist in your lifetime. Take Southwest.

[@paulantonio740]

The thing is, you can go from San Jose to San Francisco and back again in a day. It's called Caltrain.

[@Awesome_Aasim]

@@paulantonio740 CalTrain is a commuter rail service, like the Long Island Railroad. People use CalTrain to then ride in these private company buses to their Silicon Valley job. CAHSR will an intercity high speed railroad that runs quickly in a couple of hours between SF and LA. For comparison, it takes that time on slow speed rail (LIRR) to go between Montauk and Penn Station. And the village of Montauk is a 3 hour drive from NY while LA is a 8 hour drive from SF.

[@_PTS__1]

Fun fact that I bet most Pro-HSR people like me know: SFO is one of 2 airport stations in phase 1 of CaHSR. The other is Burbank Airport. Anyways, all we need now is Palmdale to Burbank and ALL of Phase 1 is cleared for construction. LETS GO HSR

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

LA to Anaheim will be the last section cleared, by 2024. Phase 1 is SF-Anaheim, not just SF-LA.

[@_PTS__1]

@@ChrisJones-gx7fc Thanks. Forgot for a second while writing it.

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

@@_PTS__1 no worries. So much of the focus is on SF-LA that Anaheim tends to get overlooked, and I’ve done that more than a few times. Anaheim is indeed on the Phase 1 system, and will be the only stretch that HSR will share tracks with a busy freight corridor.

[@_PTS__1]

@@ChrisJones-gx7fc Hits harder to home as my grandfather on my dad’s side lives in Anaheim, and IDK how I forgot HSR is going to there.

[@indisciipline]

@@ChrisJones-gx7fc 🤓🤓🤓

[@SpencerHeckwolf]

Build more housing around the rails. The density is way too low.

[@E-damnn]

Nah this is a long distance mode of travel, there’s no point in having people live next to the tracks if the train is just gonna blow by them because the next stop is far away. I agree that there should be high density near the stations tho. I’m sure that once the system is running, development surrounding the stations will follow.

[@SpencerHeckwolf]

@@E-damnn this corridor has local stops for Cal Train.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@SpencerHeckwolf Sure, but his point still stands. You still want to build as much as possible at stations and probably don’t want any development miles and miles away from any stations in the middle of nowhere.

[@kuyshina]

Dense housing should be a priority around major transit hubs that CalHSR will bring. These stations could host, shopping, arts, food, and night life attractions. If the zoning around these stations is updated they could be huge economic areas along the corridor

[@RashawnBlue1]

@@TohaBgood2 Fairly sure his point is they should build more denser housing in general near transit stops and he is right.

[@harktischris]

love that as a part of this project Caltrain local service will also get a top speed of 110 mph. Not sure how much it'll be able to be sustained with the stop density, but what a nice upgrade.

[@RTSRafnex2]

Stop density is not really a problem for EMUs.

[@harktischris]

@@RTSRafnex2 another benefit to electrification then!

[@CN_SFY_General]

It's driven by electricity and the ac-/de-celeration will be larger.

[@sygneg7348]

This is huge news! I really hope this gets completed, if it will, it will prove itself to be a massive success! This will definitely be better for the economy, as people from the Central Valley (which is deeply impoverished) will be able to work in either San Francisco and Los Angeles, allowing them to escape poverty. You may call this a waste of funds due to its costs and delays, but every HSR project goes through these kinds of things. The reason they aren't talked about with existing HSR in Europe or Asia is because those systems proved themselves and made life more easier, allowing everyone to forget the troubles the projects those had to encounter.

[@sheepgarden999]

The under 3 hours trip sounds really awesome! I’d be able to hop on in LA at 7am (I’d even be able to snooze for an hour or so, can’t do that while driving!) get to SF at around 10 am. Spend the whole day in SF, hop on the train at 7pm (have another snooze) and I’m back in LA at 10pm. Suddenly, a one day vacation to SF from SoCal is feasible!

[@toothlessseer3153]

"...Suddenly, a one day vacation to SF from SoCal is feasible!" Keep dreaming! I've been hearing about this high speed train since 1996. I will be amazed if this SF-LA section completes anytime before 2040. _Meanwhile, there's a much shorter trip you can do today (and has been available for the past 50 years)... a 45 MINUTE FLIGHT (as opposed to 3 hours by train) from LAX, Burbank, etc. to SFO, SJC OAK, etc._

[@toothlessseer3153]

and tickets would be cheaper 😀

[@mccrearym]

@@toothlessseer3153 With the time spent to/from the airport, security, and waiting time at the airport, it is largely a wash - and HSR will in many cases come out on top.

[@pbilk]

@@toothlessseer3153 Don't forget the 1-2 hours advance wait at the airport and the inconvenience of going through security.

[@-bigChungusVerified]

@@mccrearym Congrats to people of Superpower USA 🇺🇸 🎉🎉 We Indians are also building HSR with the help of Japan 🇯🇵.. we will be getting the E-5 Shinkansen 🚄

[@_DeathDreams_]

BUILD! THAT! TRAIN!

[@tonyburzio4107]

Yeah! Brightline from LA to Miami! It'll be done first!

[@Tivis7]

Looking good so far! Litterally can't wait for this, we're definatly overdue for highspeed rail.

[@axeldobreff8962]

Love this! Finally introducing CA to the 21st century. Need HSR to LAX from all directions. I see no reason that LA, SF Bay area couldn't have as efficient HSR as Tokyo. WE NEED IT!

[@tonyburzio4107]

There's a honking big mountain in the way! If you go twice as fast and go four times as far, this is a LOSS!

[@darthmaul216]

@@tonyburzio4107 this is a BOON

[@DavidJamesHenry]

We need grade separation! I don't mind waiting a while longer, it needs to be safe!

[@tammiepulley7167]

So great to hear this intro of high speed rail.

[@pseudopeach]

One step closer to maybe being considered to possibly be "shovel-ready" for future hypothetical implementation!

[@hankthetank4238]

Please make it work! Super excited about the stop in San Mateo at 25th Ave. Game changer 😎

[@DoahnKea_Tuber]

ALL Major Projects (and Phases) should be this Informative & Timely!!

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

Neat, as long as they're able to replace international airports, the pollution offset vs jets will be significantly less than a single plane flight vs a year+ of electrified rail

[@spencerjoplin2885]

Existing airports are at capacity while the population is increasing. Nobody’s talking about removing airports.

[@AmpereBEEP]

@@spencerjoplin2885 One of the great things about HSR is that it eliminates a large portion of the ~120 flights per day that take place between LA and SF, freeing that space up for the interstate and international flights that are actually necessary.

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

@@AmpereBEEP not just that, takes 2-3 hours on average at the airport, of TSA, waiting, refueling, boarding, and heaven forbid it gets cloudy, windy, or starts sprinking because everything in the airport is at the mercy of mother nature If the HSR promised LA to SF time is right, a single train more people moved average than a 3 airplanes can in a day, and a train leaving every 15-20 minutes

[@shitfuckmcgee8611]

@@SplitScreamOFFICIAL Let's just hope that they can keep the ticket purchasing and boarding systems simple and convenient. I'd pay 2x as much as a flight to LA if it means avoiding all of that bullshit.

[@es3359]

Much of the fuel used in flights is to take off and land. The actual length of the flight is less impactful. That means that the short haul flights that this will compete with are really what are being targeted and will significantly reduce emissions within the region. There are far fewer international flights than regional flights in California.

[@justinwright904]

It would be interesting to know how many lives will be saved from all the upgraded grade separations. Seems like something they should be advertising more. I’m sure they also speed up traffic.

[@douglasengle2704]

They are not eliminating at-grade crossings. That's why the top speed is only 110-mph.

[@CN_SFY_General]

@@douglasengle2704 Only in the City that the tracks have some crossings at grade, but for normal HSR, it is totally separated from all other traffic. When the speed of trains exceeds 180 km/h, none can escape being hit to death by the train, even he puts his ears to the track to feel the train.

[@theexmann]

This is fantastic. I can't wait to ride this.

[@richardnelson-ux1zz]

I believe this high speed rail will serve California well

[@daniel5610]

Congrats!

[@tammielisa]

About freaking time we see this in America!

[@sinfinite7516]

Well Im excited for this to be built, the question is when tho…

[@EudaemoniusMarkII]

Great work! Keep it going!

[@osmanhossain676]

Get California High Speed Rail and get California High Speed Rail now from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and Sacramento to San Diego. 😮

[@neonboy99]

Dont think you can have any HSR if you still have same level road crossings. Most HSR systems have their own tracks running above or with roads in tunnels below the tracks.

[@sandal_thong8631]

They didn't want the Amtrak to run faster than 45 MPH through my town in NC a few years back. They built two new bridges and closed a minor crossing as well as an important neighborhood one, making cars detour a mile down the road under that new bridge. It was funny to see people use their GPS or memory and put their blinker on for a turn that no longer exists. Now the Amtrak runs 10mph faster through there, going 55 MPH or so.

[@neonboy99]

@@sandal_thong8631 That's not good enough for a high speed rail. At 250km a hour they can't stop.

[@sandal_thong8631]

@@neonboy99 A train's not stopping for a truck blocking the crossing at whatever speed it's going.

[@TohaBgood2]

Go CAHSR! Make the anti-rail trolls wail with your successes!

[@bonk7754]

How do you make $105 Billion then lol

[@TohaBgood2]

@@bonk7754 Whats does $105 billion have to do with CAHSR? Is that the debunked made up budget number that you trolls are still trying to push? Wanna give me a source for that?

[@moth5799]

@@bonk7754 The US blew trillions on killing sand people and still lost the war, a few billion on an actually helpful project is nothing.

[@bonk7754]

@@TohaBgood2 how would you get that big of a cap of money to pay off such a system? Its laughable if it can just only connect a small portion at a time even if promising a full system by 2020 lol.

[@ee-ef8qr]

@@bonk7754 Tell that to the Federal Highway Administration.

[@HiFiInsider]

I can't wait to ride it. Very prod of CA when this is finally completed.

[@KennethStone]

Neat! I'm glad to hear this. Of course, I'm curious why this sort of "blended system" wasn't used the entire length down to LA. There already are rails all the way between LA, SJ, SF, and SAC (Amtrak Coast Starlight, Amtrak Capital Corridor, etc). Shame they couldn't "share" with the other rail owners like UP and BNSF.

[@georgspartener6506]

I could imagine the Problem lies in the nature of freigt railroads. They have long and slow trains, which are difficult to cope with when operating HS-Rail. Also Freight trains often don't run on scedules, this makes coordinating scedules for the High Speed Trains very difficult and leads to delays (i.e. Passenger Train is suddenly stuck behind freight train). When copared to Caltrain, which has sceduled and (relatively) fast train services, it is a lot more feasable to do a "bleded system" on the caltrain corridor. Also caltrain can profit a lot from these uprades, such as electrification and grade separations, while UP and BNSF probably could'nt care less about these topics.

[@kneonspace]

To achieve high speeds safely to you need very good track conditions. Something that those other tracks don't have. HSR also needs really gentle curves something those alignments don't support and those tracks are already full.with freight traffic, your not going to get 200+ miles an hour out of those tracks the Caltrain tracks are also limited to 110 same for north east corridor.

[@DouglasLippi]

@@kneonspace definitely this. Existing rails could not support the high speeds.

[@corporatelobbyist2124]

The freight carriers are the reason why Amtrak struggles

[@ezyryder11]

Could be they also wanted to connect more people. Fresno is the 5th biggest city in California, other Central Valley cities are quite big as well.

[@daikicipolloni3151]

You guys really need to improve public transit in America. It’s a catastrophe now. This project will improve the situation and set an example for the future.

[@Awesome_Aasim]

Most of this is just modernizing and adding CalTrain track. This will be so cool once I move back to the Bay Area.

[@honeyjoy1409]

How long does it take from San Jose to San Francisco by this high-speed train?

[@ianschubert5638]

i love you life will be beautiful when you guys are done

[@sandal_thong8631]

Grade crossings for high-speed rail is a mistake. They should be separated by bridge or tunnel, even if it means driving a mile or so detour. I've been watching Florida high-speed rail where people (including police!) ignore the crossing arms and lights to cross and get hit by trains. If you must have grade-crossings then the road should be one-way so no one goes around the arm. Also, there should be barriers that come out of the road (like at security checkpoints) to prevent cars and trucks from crashing through the arm to get on the tracks.

[@blackwatch6649]

"Florida high speed rail" you're having a laugh, if you think Brightline is high-speed

[@johnkeenan5404]

As a railfan I hate to be a naysayer. I am not sanguine there will ever be HSR extensively in California. Currently you cannot get from LA to San Francisco by train without changing trains and moving by intermodal means (bus). Let Amtrak fix that first. At the end of the day HSR has proved to be prohibitively expensive with projected ridership being so low that huge fair subsidies will be needed. I would love to see HSR from LA to SFO but I am not optimistic it will happen for decades and decades.

[@paulo7200]

It sounds so wonderful. Too bad I wont be alive 100 years from now when it's completed.

[@darthmaul216]

Good thing then it won’t take that long

[@matthewowens1451]

maby they can use and take the old train tracks lying in the ground in marina to monterey into pacific grove as a resource

[@CrazeTheZilla]

2:30 listen, I love this project, but y'all should have taken a note from Brightline and improved where they did theirs wrong and grade separated this

[@whoisthatkidd2212]

$$$$$$

[@brandonk9706]

Caltrain already has these level crossings and operates way more trains at the same 79 mph speed as Brightline, but with fewer incidents than Brightline. Brightline's issue has other issues ranging from driver education to poor crossing design contributing to its abnormally high level of collisions. I would have liked to see this segment fully grade-separated too, but I also understand that Palo Alto and other cities along the corridor threatened long legal challenges against major HSR construction would have made implementation an absurdly expensive and potentially construction-prohibitive nightmare. The incremental grade separations that CAHSR is funding along the Peninsula Corridor paired with level crossing redesigns should amount to an overall reduction in incidents at crossings compared to current levels. This is one of those cases where it's ok to acknowledge that it's not a perfect solution, but it's an improvement over the current status of the corridor and the state doesn't have the means to force the cities in the Bay Area to accept a fully grade separated route as a perfect solution.

[@AmpereBEEP]

Most of the at-grade crossings are planned to be grade separated by the local jurisdictions, with around 12-20 already in the planning stages. Don't worry, everything has been thought of already!

[@davidjackson7281]

@@brandonk9706 Thank you for the great reply comparing the two railroads.

[@SquiggleSquared]

@@brandonk9706 brightline's issue is the Florida man 👀

[@transitclubomg]

39 at grade crossings for an HSR!? solve this soon plz.

[@TohaBgood2]

Already solved. Some have already been removed. Many more will be removed. The rest will get quad gates to seal the right of way when trains pass. It’s standard practice and it works. Hopefully in time we get more money for grade separations and remove all of them. But to get the system running this is more than enough!

[@transitcaptain]

Who will make it to Diridon first? BART or high speed rail

[@jarrod499]

Bart hands down.

[@DouglasLippi]

BART is actually funded and under construction. CAHSR is not.

[@davidjackson7281]

@@DouglasLippi Great to see your comments.

[@DouglasLippi]

@@davidjackson7281 funny thing... I did unsubscribe again, but this video just popped up in my feed. It was destiny that I continue to bless this channel with my flawless logic and reason 🤣

[@wavenine2749]

I can't wait for this thing to open. It's a wonderful system to have and I wish more states had similar projects. But I have one qualm... You're going to have at grade crossings for an HSR system??? You'd have to put the barriers down way it advance for that system to work safely, and you'd probably still have accidents. Why go through all the trouble of building these viaducts (which I believe is necessary and good) but then have ancient at grade crossings????

[@chris8405]

The grade crossings are on the upgraded 110 mph classic tracks for 43 miles south of San Francisco, not on the HSR.

[@Jack-qb7hs]

An amazing project and I can't wait to ride the finished product but why are there at grade crossings!? That's madness!

[@TohaBgood2]

It’s actually fine to have slower sections, even with protected grade crossings in urban areas where there are multiple stops. That’s standard practice for most HSR lines. But CAHSR actually did want a 4-track trade separated railway here. The NIMBYS successfully blocked all of it, including the passing tracks. They almost killed electrification too! The fact that this is getting built at all despite all those billionaires in Atherton suing is a friggin miracle in and of itself!

[@chasemartin4450]

This corridor was built in the mid-1800s and hasn't been changed much since

[@transitcaptain]

I really hope with the opposition to this project doesn’t stop it

[@ee-ef8qr]

It's San Fran of course theres going to be opposition.

[@transitcaptain]

@@ee-ef8qr I know there’s going to be I was wondering if San Francisco can stop at

[@Mister8224]

What's an extra 400 billion? We already throw money like that at boondoggle green projects. Why not I t another 400B fir an I there boondoggle. Illegals & homeless could use it(no charge of course) to relocate to greener pastures.

[@notarotomwithhair5637]

What would a rush hour timetable look like?

[@ReedmanFL]

There are problems that need to be dealt with: 1) CAHSR refuses to commit to level boarding. Caltrain uses double decker trains, which have low entry stairs. CAHSR appears to be taking over the Gilroy to SF section (except, it has to accomodate Union Pacific freight), with Caltrain being an afterthought. 2) Caltrain kills about 12 people per year. Grade separations (which reduce pedestrian access to the tracks) should be a mandate. 3) The Millbrae mess needs to be fixed. BART got there first, and is in-the-way of good HSR service. The SFO People Mover should be extended to CAHSR, and the BART-SFO link ended. 4) There is no rational fix to the Salesforce Tower SF mess. End of the line, no through-running, choke point on access tracks, choke point in built/unused/brand-new pedestrian access to the Salesforce platforms. The SF estimate to bring Caltrain to Salesforce is $6 BILLION for 2 miles of track. The cost of implementing the Central Valley HSR connection to San Jose is high, the cost of connecting to San Francisco is astronomical. 5) The Sierra Club strong-armed Sacramento into eliminating a station at Los Banos, becase it would make HSR too-convenient for daily commuting from the Central Valley to Silicon Valley. The Club isn't interested in HSR as transporrtation, it considers HSR only to be a political tool.

[@TigerOwO]

When?

[@ulyssesemmanuel]

Just glad to see much more positive feedback lately. It will get done, we just need patience.

[@bluelambda]

Patience is always key

[@themattghall]

Choo choo!

[@nakfx134]

after this is all done, everyone will be so jealous

[@DouglasLippi]

Ok I lolled. Thanks!

[@ezyryder11]

This project gets a lot of flak, but California’s strength has always been a willingness to try new things, even if they seem a bit wacky. Glad the voters approved this in 2008.

[@DouglasLippi]

@@ezyryder11 there's nothing at all wacky about a fast train from SF to LA. The flack comes from the glacial speed of implementation and massive cost overruns. It's ironic how slowly they build a fast train 🤣

[@stephenspackman5573]

Well, it's exciting to hear that this will be almost as fast as a steam train. No, really, I'm actually excited for this despite the disappointing constraints it needs to fight.

[@miles5600]

it has to be done, when this project is done, it'll make great sucess and change the nation for more HSR.

[@tonyburzio4107]

It'll cement Brightline as the future, that's for sure!

[@darthmaul216]

No steam train went 200 miles an hour. One went 125 but that was on the East coast

[@stephenspackman5573]

@@darthmaul216 Ah, did I get my units mixed up? 200 mph is a good speed by modern standards. 200 km/h was the limit of steam.

[@ybing]

More routes… what happen to the first part? When they going to be finished? 😅

[@douglasengle2704]

The preferred CA-HSR specifications as written are for track speeds of 400 kph (249 mph). CA-HSR implementation has totally lost its way. The LA - SF route is circuitous and over the good fit limit of 500 miles to easily compete with air travel. Everything possible should be done to shorten the distance and stretch to the highest speeds, just the opposite is happening. There are no Chinese or Japanese HSR systems that notably run slower just from being in urban areas which are the primary examples of HSR in the modern world. HSR is considered to be 250 kph (155 mph) and above. Blended high speed rail is 200 kph (124 mph) to 250 kph (155 mph) which includes freight and other traffic not 110 mph (177 kph). Below 200 kph (124 mph) to about 90 mph is considered a fast passenger train. 110 mph and below allows the use of unsealed railroad corridors and at-grade crossing with quad gates which many freight railroads could be upgraded to provide. 110 mph track speeds would be a great enhancement for long distance Amtrak routes on upgraded host freight railroad tracks, but is not HSR. 500 kph Japanese and 600 kph Chinese maglev train sets are running through proving and demonstration testing. Japan was suppose to open its long distance 500 kph maglev from Tokyo in 2027, but land disputes have delayed it. By 2045 eight meter wide three level maglevs running 800 kph - 1,000 kph should start to be possible. That would mean in about twenty years 800 kph maglev technology become practical where California maybe just finishing new passenger train service with lots of 177 kph and slower speeds. Nice for the 1950s not for 2050s! That wide eight meter loading gauge has been desired since the start of the railroad age in the 1840s when UK double track railways were designed to occasionally have double width carriages run using the inner rails of the two tracks. The eight meter wide loading gauge would allow large assemblies to be easily moved long distances overland changing the world as we know it. The rail wheel interface is at its practical limit restricting the practical loading gauge width, but that is not the case for maglevs. All high speed trains need almost incrementally free electricity such as their own hydropower with unlimited water. New nuclear power technology is likely the second best choice technology after hydropower in meeting that goal. Japanese bullet trains were implemented with the hope of very incrementally cheap nuclear electric power.

[@nihongobenkyoshimasu3190]

2:34 No grade separation and running at top speed of 110 miles an hour is ludicrous. There have been already so many car and pedestrians accidents at rail road crossing.

[@Trollemharder]

I don't see this project nearing completion in the next 20 or 30 years. Whats going on in the Valley should be investigated

[@DouglasLippi]

Business as usual. Govt makes a pitch to voters based on lies and exaggerations. Voters are stupid and agree to it. Govt delivers *something* eventually, but not even close to the original pitch and exponentially over budget. Repeat.

[@Daniel15au]

I love this so much!

[@weiliwan]

Caltrain has provided bullet train services, why do we still need overlapping HSR between San Jose and San Francisco?

[@Deiftwaser]

Caltrain's average speed is 80 mph, not really high speed. Plus it's technically higher speed, not high speed.

[@transitcaptain]

I really hope this section is ready to allow for high-speed rail services Long before the project starts because this section should be easy to implement.

[@josephkarl2061]

I never knew there was another city called Brisbane in the world up til now. I mean, it seemed like there should be, but I'd never heard of one. The things you learn in a day 😃

[@RTSRafnex2]

Not so surprising when you consider that for just about every city in the world, there is at least one counterpart in the United States.

[@philipgrice1026]

High speed intercity rail depends on high frequency local transportation to feed it. Britain's HS2 is suffering because the idiots have been closing local train lines due to lack of use. That is the result of an absence of high speed trains to take for longer distances. A classic 'catch 22' situation.

[@johnhaxby306]

fingers crossed.

[@Mike__B]

What are you going to do with all the garbage under those big dirt mounts for the Brisbane LMF, garbage doesn't exactly compost. That said, I really do hope I can go from SF to LA before I qualify for the senior fare price, and I really do hope the price is comparable to a plane ticket (and not a last minute high priced plane ticket)

[@DirkGorgiel]

In 1930‘s Germany had High Speed Trains, already.

[@Triple7bmod]

Few of us watching this will live long enough to ride this.

[@jasonge1]

Now it's time to get started on construction

[@StevenVillarino]

Great to see

[@peabody1976]

My one really big nitpick is Milbrae station: that facility looks relatively new and there was seemingly little effort to futureproof the site even though HSR has been in the works for some time. It's the one down point, but once it's remedied then this will bring a better level of rail to California, finally exceeding the NEC. I'm rooting for you, California, and I can't wait to see things fall into place soon.

[@TohaBgood2]

Valid point, but Millbrae station predates the CAHSR project. It was built as a terminus station as part of the SFO BART extension. That project started planning in 1984 and already finished construction by 2003. By that time it was simultaneously too early and too late to incorporate CAHSR into the station design.

[@DouglasLippi]

What's the concern? That station was and is one of the best. Connects Caltrain to BART and SFO. Additionally has adequate parking and a new huge multi-unit housing complex at the front door. It is a public transit fan's dream come true.

[@peabody1976]

@@TohaBgood2 I think that's fair. It's always a challenge to retrofit new infrastructure if the existing one didn't ponder a possibility, but I'm really excited to see HSR finally reach SF.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

They say "no emissions" -- have they gotten enough solar and wind power installed yet to accomplish this?

[@ignasanchezl]

LET'S F**KING GOOOO

[@marktan3668]

In Indonesia arrival of EMU for Bandung HSR is more reported than the queen of England. In HK, they cry, wail and whine. In Singapore, half flag. Australia, Canada. All these British colonies, now American, are far far behind by HSR, including USA.

[@JermaniBurroughs]

For now.

[@JeremyDWilliamsOfficial]

Please use a different narrator next time. He is REALLY hard to listen to because he starts and stops several times in one sentence.

[@marcbetancourt731]

lets goooooo

[@arrowrod]

Only 40 more years. $400 billion. 2000 Environmental Protection Agency reports. At the end, a stop every 3 miles. I live within walking distance from San Jose's transit train. I can E-bike to downtown San Jose faster than the tram.

[@davidlendved8225]

Seems like way too many grade crossings. Why can't we do this right?

[@TohaBgood2]

Because the people on the route keep suing everyone and their mother to block any grade separations. They’ve also blocked quad-tracking, passing tracks, and almost killed electrification! Plus, running at 110mph in urban areas where the stations are is 100% standard practice for HSR worldwide. The Shinkansen and the TGV go considerably slower in cities. This is just how HSR is currently done.

[@davidlendved8225]

@@TohaBgood2 I have no issue with the 110 mph speed in urban areas. This is necessary due to the limitations in of the alignment due to existing infrastructure. Even 110 mph lines should be fenced in and grade separated to insure the safety of rail crew, passengers and the public.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@davidlendved8225 This is already planned and partially being implemented. They are adding fences and quad gates already.

[@tim1724]

@@davidlendved8225 Of course they should be separated. But local opposition has killed most of it. (Eventually it will have to happen, of course, but it'll mostly end up being paid for by local authorities and at a much higher cost than if the HSR authority had been allowed to build it right to begin with. As usual the NIMBYs are passing the extra cost onto their kids and grandkids.)

[@RashawnBlue1]

@@TohaBgood2 Is there a reason NIMBYs are able to block that? Why dont California just use eminent domain? They could easily strong-arm their way to completing this correctly, but instead they are going to risk lives being lost similar to Brightline. Only hope for true HSR is Texas and yes, I know they are struggling to even get started. These companies really just need eminent domain rights, because the amount of NIMBYs they are going to encounter is never going to go away and they need to be prepared for it better.

[@enroute6105]

Build it to were every inch can reach top speed.

[@Kntfst]

Of course this where first part of Monies will be spent. Lets create Train coverage redundancies Same Train Stations covered by Cal Trans Train and High Speed rail. Lets further wear out the High speed trains before the even get to go any further towards LA. Guess at the end of the Tracks in San Jose, one just imagines Stations further South. Better is monies spent on long stretches of tracks between San Jose and LA. Then build up the Bay Area section. The High Speed Train actually would have a Purpose. Not just an overpriced CalTrans Commuter Train.

[@martinrivera4175]

Windows 95 was still new when they started construction 🤔

[@pineiroteacher1083]

Well, that is insane. After the effort made in the Central Area, in the SF area they are building a 3rd class infraestructure system, that significantly reduces speed, travel times and safety. Learn from Spain, France: high speed trains use exclusive infraestructure that is completely isolated from highways, streets or, at the end of the day, people, animals. That will cause accidents and it is a clear downgrade of the project that makes absolutely no sense.

[@pierrearmand6590]

Why wouldn’t they tie in to Berkeley. A lot more customers on this side of the bay. Now we have to travel to SF to ride the train.

[@chasemartin4450]

Plans for a second Transbay Tube may allow that in the future

[@wesleychaffin4029]

Let’s goooooooo!!!!!!

[@russcrawford3310]

Sharing the rails with freight? ... I thought that was the problem this project was correcting? ... we can do 110 mph in our cars in the Central Valley ... try doing 110 on the Bayshore ...

[@lordrindfleisch1584]

Such an important project. Other places in the US should start building similar projects

[@christhompson6010]

certain groups of voters are putting pressure at the state level to move away from gas powered vehicles so guess in away the passing of this makes sense. could have used this when i had to commute from marin to san jose to avoid the traffic nightmare coming home .

[@osmanhossain676]

Yes and yeah California High Speed Rail.

[@chevyyyyyyy]

I have little confidence in this PR video content which seems to be a boondoggle with a slick overlay as communicated here and it seems that the project with be obsolete when it’s completed in 20 years.

[@Trentberkeley86]

Uhmm.. what about the important stuff? Like how fast it goes

[@paulantonio740]

With so many competing agencies and overlapping authorities, what could possibly go wrong?

[@warrenwilson4818]

Great report. Whole country seems to be against your chances of success. Not. I. Nov. 1, 2022, Missouri

[@DavidTsangSF]

So they sharing tracks with Caltrains…

[@WilliamDurham-c3z]

It's like a intentional flagrant foul to get next to the train tracks or put the train right in the middle of a city. Might as well put it on the seventy mph freeway lane or ninety miles per hour intrastate highway freeway.

[@richardmoore899]

Shame you didn't have the foresight to quad track the new grade separation. :/ I'm all for blended systems but be clever about it

[@punchnazis3498]

There are a few quad-track sections along that corridor, but there's no room to expand without displacing some homes and businesses, or spending more on expensive elevated structures or tunnels. They would have built a completely separate HSR system the entire way, if there were funds and/or room for it. Maybe in a hundred years there will be a dedicated HSR tunnel between SF and SJ lol

[@ignasanchezl]

Soon they will realize we have a lot of roads to rip out

[@TohaBgood2]

They tried. The local NIMBYs killed all the plans. What we have was the only thing that could be conceivably built without killing off the project. That being said, they have extensive plans about how to do future upgrades to make the ROW faster and better. It will Just take longer now because of the NIMBYs. If you live locally, I hope you will be there with the rest of us to do battle with the NIMBYs going forward for the upgrades!

[@ignasanchezl]

If YIMBYS had the same power to act as NIMBYS do we would have so many great things.

[@ignasanchezl]

Go YIMBY movement!

[@kenswireart88]

Here's the problem. They are approving a highspeed rail for an area that already has several different public transportation modes to get to. Why not create a highspeed rail.from sf to northern California. It takes a long time for this types of projects to be approved. It shouldn't be done in secretly. The masses should.have to vote on issues like.these. there's a whole bunch of cities that can start becoming as.developed as sf and San Jose if only they provided train access to get there. They keep making cities that are already developed more and more developed while certain cities don't even have a bus. ☹️

[@Nalehw]

While options exist, they're extremely slow and expensive. SF to Fresno is like a 3 hour drive or 5 hours by bus. SF to LA is a 6 hour drive or over 13 hours by the coastal train. (I'm just grabbing these numbers from a trip planner site, forgive me if it's inaccurate.) Very few people are going to choose those options unless they're absolutely forced to. I mean, outside tourists and the transit nerd community, how many people have you spoken to who've taken that train? But we know that many people do WANT to make these journeys - look how heavy the demand is for SF-LA flights, and how many drivers are on those highways. That makes highspeed rail appealing for this corridor. Because we know there's high demand to tap into, if we can just make rail fast enough to compete. If it helps, look at it as a proof of concept (because we know nobody believes in international success, they have to see success in their own country first). Once you get HSR up and running on a high-demand corridor, then it will be easier to justify extending the network up north.

[@kenswireart88]

@@Nalehw I get what u saying but the more congested a city becomes the more crooked the people become the more.it becomes unlivable, undatable, short attention spam...tourists shouldn't be the standard for whether a place is cool because anything is good to a tourists eyes.cause it's new to them. I'm not saying high speed rail to remote areas no. I'm saying a consistent business or a train line where the schedule between trains is far apart and as demand arises they can add more lines.

[@Nalehw]

@@kenswireart88 Forgive me if the mention of 'tourists' made my comment confusing. I didn't mean to imply that tourists are driving the San Francisco-Central Valley-Los Angeles demand. In fact I agree that building a line just for tourists is a bad plan. I think SF-CV-LA is a good line to start with because of how much day-to-day business demand there is, and because linking them together with fast transit can help reduce their current airline & highway congestion.

[@tonymatic1704]

what the actual fuck? 39 grade crossings???? Those arent supposed exist on high speed rail!!!

[@TohaBgood2]

Some have already been remove. More are in progress but are being done by the cities themselves. The handful that will still be left will get quad gates. People who aren’t total orangutans or Florida men are planning this project. They know what they’re doing, bud.

[@OBSMProductions]

For the Shinkansen grade crossings in urban areas are normal, as those areas are also lower speed sections. Some of them might be separated eventually.

[@manoj4730]

India also started construction of HSR and will complete before Americans

[@JermaniBurroughs]

By 2 years.

[@dukeofkool]

As Sheriff John Brown said - "Kill it before it grows."

[@osmanhossain676]

I want California High Speed Rail. 😮

[@ropro9817]

But when will I be able to actually ride a high speed train from San Francisco to Los Angeles... 🤔

[@flashgordon10001]

Let's Go Brandon

[@chasemartin4450]

Make Railroads Great Again

[@davidwelty9763]

I live in Florida where brightline high speed rail from Miami to Orlando is nearing completion, was privately funded (no taxpayer money)and will cost less than 2 Billion. The boondoggle that is California high speed rail is laughable.

[@gingerqueer22]

Built on the ruins of an even older abandoned government project, with 3 stations, operating at 130kph (not high speed rail) with less than 20 services a day. Yeah, sounds like y'all are living the dream down there /s