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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 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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!

I swear we’re going to be litigated into irrelevance with all this NIMBY idiocy.

[–] electriccars@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do the easiest part first to prove it can be done successfully. It's the pilot basically.

[–] TanakaAsuka@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But without main population centres is it going to be done successfully? Imo they should have started with one of the ends, so that at least there is a big trip destination.

Too late for that now and I really hope it works out and we get a good example for north american high speed rail projects to point to despite everything.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They would be waiting forever if they wanted to break ground in downtown la or sf first.

You can’t will car lobbies and nimbys to action, you have to coerce the general public and the state, and this incomplete rail will be the coercion.

Honestly it’s a brilliant strategy for a shitty situation. After this phase, if they somehow don’t get permission to complete the line, they would never have gotten rail built between the cities anyway.

[–] TanakaAsuka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I just hope it works so that people can shut up with the high speed rail only works in other places garbage. Just tell them to go visit california and see how good it is... Only works if they finish it so I hope they do.

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