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Re: LA SCAX expansion of AVL into Kern County- So we did the analysis i7 years after we started building it?
Author: Clem
Date: 08-26-2018 - 16:05
I bill double on weekends!
Here’s the thing: in a political and professional culture steeped in the heritage of diesel freight, where high speed rail might as well be an alien artifact (have you personally ever exceeded 180 mph on rails?), the 160-minute criterion was a necessary backstop against dissolving the available funding into a morass of incremental short-term improvements, each laudable but amounting in the long term to less than the sum of their parts. This erosion process is happening anyway...
You go on about extending rail service to the far reaches of the high desert while core links like Burbank to Anaheim go pathetically underdeveloped.
Here’s the thing: in a political and professional culture steeped in the heritage of diesel freight, where high speed rail might as well be an alien artifact (have you personally ever exceeded 180 mph on rails?), the 160-minute criterion was a necessary backstop against dissolving the available funding into a morass of incremental short-term improvements, each laudable but amounting in the long term to less than the sum of their parts. This erosion process is happening anyway...
You go on about extending rail service to the far reaches of the high desert while core links like Burbank to Anaheim go pathetically underdeveloped.
