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Re: California High-Speed Rail: Some Views From the Valley
Author: stash
Date: 08-02-2014 - 17:18
Why restrictions on who can ride HSR? Who cares about Metrolink traffic anyway?
People of the state pay for the new railroad and if they choose to ride between LA and Palmdale, that's fine. Let the payers get to use the new railroad.
Fieldworkers will be able to ride from LA to the valley stops. Another plus for the new line.
mook Wrote:
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> Rosamond is in Kern County. The only proposed HSR
> stop in Kern County is in Bakersfield. So
> commuters would have to drive to Palmdale like
> they do now (or to Lancaster, for Metrolink).
>
> More I think about it, the more I question a
> Palmdale stop (separate from consideration of the
> route itself) unless certain other things also
> happen. Key point: it's in Metrolink's service
> area. For practical purposes, HSR would need to
> arrange things so they don't carry passengers
> between points in the LA Basin or out as far as
> Santa Clarita or Palmdale to avoid messing with
> Metrolink's traffic. Except possibly for airport
> stops, the first place to get off after leaving
> LA-area stops would have to be Bakersfield, and
> nobody would be able to board between Bakersfield
> and LA.
>
> Those "certain other things" are not guaranteed,
> nor even likely in the near future. They include:
> upgrading KPMD to a full-scale commercial airport
> (not just an air force base with a couple of
> commuter flights a day); or connection to a Las
> Vegas or other HSR in the High Desert. Frankly, I
> think the latter is more likely than the former,
> though neither is anything to take to the bank.
People of the state pay for the new railroad and if they choose to ride between LA and Palmdale, that's fine. Let the payers get to use the new railroad.
Fieldworkers will be able to ride from LA to the valley stops. Another plus for the new line.
mook Wrote:
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> Rosamond is in Kern County. The only proposed HSR
> stop in Kern County is in Bakersfield. So
> commuters would have to drive to Palmdale like
> they do now (or to Lancaster, for Metrolink).
>
> More I think about it, the more I question a
> Palmdale stop (separate from consideration of the
> route itself) unless certain other things also
> happen. Key point: it's in Metrolink's service
> area. For practical purposes, HSR would need to
> arrange things so they don't carry passengers
> between points in the LA Basin or out as far as
> Santa Clarita or Palmdale to avoid messing with
> Metrolink's traffic. Except possibly for airport
> stops, the first place to get off after leaving
> LA-area stops would have to be Bakersfield, and
> nobody would be able to board between Bakersfield
> and LA.
>
> Those "certain other things" are not guaranteed,
> nor even likely in the near future. They include:
> upgrading KPMD to a full-scale commercial airport
> (not just an air force base with a couple of
> commuter flights a day); or connection to a Las
> Vegas or other HSR in the High Desert. Frankly, I
> think the latter is more likely than the former,
> though neither is anything to take to the bank.
