California High-Speed Rail Board of Directors Meeting, November 7, 2024

[@iconsonly99]

What a beautiful project. Thank you all for everything you are doing for the people of California

[@jeffreypierson2064]

2:00 Approve the September 26, 2024, Board Meeting Minutes 3:15 Election of Board Chair and Vice Chair Results: Tom Richards and Nancy Miller re-elected 7:55 Public Comment 12:25 Project Update Construction by Daniel Horgan 24:20 2025 Meeting Scheduling 28:25 Project Update Right of Way & Third Party by Dennis Kim 37:15 Project Update Risk Management & Project Controls by Jamey Matalka 43:10 Project Update Strategic Communications by Toni Tinoco 46:50 CEO Report by Ian Choudri 55:30 Finance and Audit Committee Report 58:20 Board Member Comments

[@ShastaTodd]

I imagine trumpie will withdraw all federal funding now... sigh

[@lalodaniels1388]

I hate that he's going to hold back our development just because of spite.

[@angelmendez2211]

he done it before that why not much progress was made under him.

[@burgerman101]

The people wanted him now they can deal with all of the consequences. No more excuses for his decisions this time. He has the house, the senate, and the supreme court on his side.

[@lalodaniels1388]

@ the people of the United States wanted him, the people of California do not. For every $5 we send the federal government government in taxes we only get $1 back. I say we secede.

[@VulcanLogic]

@@lalodaniels1388 Would love it if we could but I don't that happens without us becoming the next Ukraine.

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

22:20 is the CP4 railhead which will be the staging ground for rails and ballast. Track and systems installation is set to begin on the current 119 miles in 2027, following the completion of civil construction.

[@renaes2807]

Will the construction subcommittee have recorded sessions as well?

[@Lumber91]

Someone summarize for me 😅

[@TohaBgood2]

Central Valley guideway construction is at about 80-90% and on track for 2026 completion. The last step in construction is to mount the rails and they're starting this process right now. So 2027-2028 we're about to see those new trains that they're ordering doing tests. Exciting times ahead!

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

@@TohaBgood2 CHSRA’s 2024 Business Plan timeline has Q1 2029 be the start of dynamic train testing.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@ChrisJones-gx7fc Looking forward to it!

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

@@TohaBgood2I remain hopeful that date can be pushed up to Summer 2028.

[@TheMiddlest]

Rather than try to get more funding, these people need to be cooperating with the state to greatly reduce the cost of the project.

[@thatoneotherotherguy]

In what ways? Concrete and steel are very expensive. Labor is very expensive. Right-of-way in California is very expensive. It's not like billions are just slipping through the cracks.

[@Dkrpan59]

Didn’t need two rails at this time it would been so much cheaper look how fast will go to the upper and lower points that extra money could have been spent extending to San Diego and San Francisco

[@darthmaul216]

A second track doesn’t cost much more and quadruples capacity

[@walterkennedy9474]

Also you can actually run trains in both directions. 2 tracks are absolutely critical to a functional train network

[@MaxSnowDude]

transit force sale center to gilroy is shared ROW with caltrain including multiple at grade crossings. They shouldve started from Gilroy to Merced; however, tunneling through the tehachepi pass isnt fully funded

[@thatoneotherotherguy]

Yes you do. Here in Utah we originally built FrontRunner mostly single track. Now we're adding enough doubletracking to double service interval frequency, at a much steeper cost than it originally would have been.