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Re: Amtrak - Desert Wind demise and resurrection via Palmdale, route....
Author: BOB2
Date: 08-27-2016 - 09:23
It is my understanding that this HSR proposal will go via a route closer to I-15 without the longer LA & SL/UP longer scenic detour through the National Park. Since they are talking 250 kph. electrified technology, we are also talking of potentially up to 10 hp per ton, so the steeper grades wouldn't be much of a problem.
It is a straight "level" shot east from Palmdale via the High Desert corridor to Victorville, then "across" the "mesa" behind Barstow, and along the I-15 alignment much of the rest of the way to Vegas. I will try to find the EIS map later today and see if it can be lifted out and posted.
All desert construction of the "expensive" high speed segments, largely within existing and proposed freeway corridors, with less environmental impacts, and the choice of less costly well established 250 kph. HSR technology, to meet a market hare based travel time goal makes this project a less costly and more realistic HSR proposal.
It is interesting to compare that well planned approach, also used to plan the Florida HSR service, to the "super high speed" design and technology, promising gullible voters a ridiculous "cost if no object" fastest speeds possible, without any realistic operating plan or market share based approach to real service planning, at the "cost is no object" taxpayer funded contracting change order racket run by the CHSRA.
Congress, which is rightly now less popular than Communism, has made it virtually impossible to qualify these projects for "private investment' by effectively banning "foreign" technologies which would be competitive and attract foreign investment, so even this well planned project is a long shot, while the useless eunuchs running the CHSRA are just beginning the change order racket shakedown on the first segment in CA.
It is a straight "level" shot east from Palmdale via the High Desert corridor to Victorville, then "across" the "mesa" behind Barstow, and along the I-15 alignment much of the rest of the way to Vegas. I will try to find the EIS map later today and see if it can be lifted out and posted.
All desert construction of the "expensive" high speed segments, largely within existing and proposed freeway corridors, with less environmental impacts, and the choice of less costly well established 250 kph. HSR technology, to meet a market hare based travel time goal makes this project a less costly and more realistic HSR proposal.
It is interesting to compare that well planned approach, also used to plan the Florida HSR service, to the "super high speed" design and technology, promising gullible voters a ridiculous "cost if no object" fastest speeds possible, without any realistic operating plan or market share based approach to real service planning, at the "cost is no object" taxpayer funded contracting change order racket run by the CHSRA.
Congress, which is rightly now less popular than Communism, has made it virtually impossible to qualify these projects for "private investment' by effectively banning "foreign" technologies which would be competitive and attract foreign investment, so even this well planned project is a long shot, while the useless eunuchs running the CHSRA are just beginning the change order racket shakedown on the first segment in CA.
