Exactly how much analysis have you done on the 101 travel demands frm the PEMS data, aviation data, or current Amtrak data, and just how familiar are you with travel demand analysis or travel economics? Exactly hw much gravity modeling have you done or even seen for these or similar market nodes? Have you ever done a corridor level alternatives analysis for a transportation project in an intercity rail corridor? I am rather curious.......you have some kind of planning background, but maybe not in this area of specialization?

You appear not to get the fact that the increasingly congested Coast line 101 corridor serves nearly two million people primarily trying to travel into and out of the two largets State two larget metro areas. I would expect that this would represent over 75% of trips that corridor would generate, less than 25% would likely be "through" trips. And, full penetration of that market with "first world" rail passenger service would definitely take a LOSSAN south level of service, to achieve anything near the full ridership potential for a market that size.

So the Coast line being longer between the end points doesn't actually mean squat, to those citizens, taxpayers, and voters who are stuck in the traffic, in the Coast line 101 corridor, does it?

Unlike gainsaying fools like the mouse, who will say anything to gainsay or bad mouth most of these projects, I am more concerned, as a retirewd professional, citizen, taxpayer, and voter, with moving the most CA residents and taxpayrs who are stuck in traffic, in this corridor, as efficiently as possible with our limited transportation resources.

I am not impressed with showing how fast I can go between LA and SFO, to alleviate the "predicted" intrastate aivation capacity crisis, which failed to occur, in order for politicians to collect campaign contributions from wired contractors, for a bloated costly useless high speed project, which it now increasingly appears will never be completed.