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BOB2 ! "16 miles of tunnels would stretch under the Tehachapi Mountains"- NOPE!!!
Author: Bob
Date: 10-25-2015 - 20:50
SHELL GAME ! HA !
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/1780/article/p2p-84809395/
The monumental task of building California's bullet train will require punching 36 miles of tunnels through the geologically complex mountains north of Los Angeles.
A confidential 2013 report by the state's main project management contractor, New York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff, estimated that the cost of building the first phase from Burbank to Merced had risen 31% to $40 billion. And it projected that the cost of the entire project would rise at least 5%.
Parsons Brinckerhoff briefed state officials on the estimate in October 2013, according to the document obtained by The Times. But the state used a lower cost estimate when it issued its 2014 business plan four months later.
As many as 16 additional miles of tunnels would stretch under the Tehachapi Mountains from Palmdale to Bakersfield.The state will probably opt for twin bores — one for each of two parallel tracks. That means as many as 72 miles of tunneling before 2022.
Can it meet that schedule?
"No way," said Leon Silver, a Caltech geologist and a leading expert on the San Gabriel Mountains. "The range is far more complex than anything those people know."
A 2012 report by Parsons Brinckerhoff, obtained by The Times, warned the rail authority that the "seismotectonic complexity ... may be unprecedented" and that the rail route would be crossing faults classified as "hazardous."
The document was never made public, and the state rail agency declined a Times request to provide it under the state's public records act. The Times later obtained it from an engineer close to the project.
After cost projections for the train rose to $98 billion in 2011, vociferous public and political outcry forced rail officials to reassess. They cut the budget to $68 billion by eliminating high-speed service between Los Angeles and Anaheim and between San Jose and San Francisco.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/1780/article/p2p-84809395/
The monumental task of building California's bullet train will require punching 36 miles of tunnels through the geologically complex mountains north of Los Angeles.
A confidential 2013 report by the state's main project management contractor, New York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff, estimated that the cost of building the first phase from Burbank to Merced had risen 31% to $40 billion. And it projected that the cost of the entire project would rise at least 5%.
Parsons Brinckerhoff briefed state officials on the estimate in October 2013, according to the document obtained by The Times. But the state used a lower cost estimate when it issued its 2014 business plan four months later.
As many as 16 additional miles of tunnels would stretch under the Tehachapi Mountains from Palmdale to Bakersfield.The state will probably opt for twin bores — one for each of two parallel tracks. That means as many as 72 miles of tunneling before 2022.
Can it meet that schedule?
"No way," said Leon Silver, a Caltech geologist and a leading expert on the San Gabriel Mountains. "The range is far more complex than anything those people know."
A 2012 report by Parsons Brinckerhoff, obtained by The Times, warned the rail authority that the "seismotectonic complexity ... may be unprecedented" and that the rail route would be crossing faults classified as "hazardous."
The document was never made public, and the state rail agency declined a Times request to provide it under the state's public records act. The Times later obtained it from an engineer close to the project.
After cost projections for the train rose to $98 billion in 2011, vociferous public and political outcry forced rail officials to reassess. They cut the budget to $68 billion by eliminating high-speed service between Los Angeles and Anaheim and between San Jose and San Francisco.
BOB2 ! "16 miles of tunnels would stretch under the Tehachapi Mountains"- NOPE!!!