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Re: CAHSR route change between Bakersfield and Shafter
Author: Clem
Date: 10-16-2018 - 23:14

The article misses the main benefit of the new route: it potentially saves a full two minutes of trip time between the ends of the system. Saving minutes is what makes HSR expensive, with the marginal cost of the next minute saved always increasing. You fix the slow bits first because minutes are cheaper to save there. The old Truxtun “Bakersfield Hybrid” alignment featured an inexcusable 115 mph reverse curve that was going to cost a full two minutes of trip time for any train that didn’t stop in Bakersfield.

(provided that 220 mph on a viaduct through an urban area ever “flies,” which it may not from a noise perspective...)

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  CAHSR route change between Bakersfield and Shafter OPRRMS 10-16-2018 - 22:17
  Re: CAHSR route change between Bakersfield and Shafter Clem 10-16-2018 - 23:14
  Re: CAHSR route change between Bakersfield and Shafter synonymouse 10-16-2018 - 23:19
  Re: CAHSR route change between Bakersfield and Shafter Cprr 10-17-2018 - 09:14
  Re: CAHSR route change another sign of no real planning....and no real purpose except to build the mostt exxpensive and useless system possible.. BOB2 10-17-2018 - 09:32
  Re: CAHSR route change another sign of no real planning....and no real purpose except to build the mostt exxpensive and useless system possible.. synonymouse 10-17-2018 - 10:10
  * most * expensive Elsie and Soybean 10-17-2018 - 13:45
  Re: CAHSR route change between Bakersfield and Shafter Cprr 10-17-2018 - 11:14
  What is the difference? Commenter 10-17-2018 - 17:27
  Re: What is the difference? synonymouse 10-17-2018 - 18:10
  Re: What is the difference? The Truth About Tejon Clem 10-17-2018 - 18:49
  Re: What is the difference? The Truth About Tejon Commenter 10-17-2018 - 20:03
  Re: What is the difference? The Truth About Tejon synonymouse 10-17-2018 - 21:39


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