Bob,

Maybe if the Expo Line was a subway like the video I shared in the past months; Metro would've won 1st.

I think if you do this in San Diego, either line... Probably the car would win, then the light rail, third the bike...

Leaving the mismanagement of the CAHSRA aside. Do you believe raising speeds thru Pendleton to 110mph from Oceanside to Trestles would shave off about 5 minutes and would be worth it?

The Del Mar tunnel could also lead to some faster running, I hope they engineer it to 60-70mph standards instead of the slow running thru the beach.

About how much tunnels would a tunnel from Elvira thru Sorrento save? "Miramar cutoff?"

I understand the line has capacity constraints, I've seen many videos of trains running about 50 in 90mph territories that dont look like workzones.

Where would you invest if you were in charge of LOSSAN?

To make matters more interesting. I believe the new Caltrans Passenger cars are single level Siemens coaches...

I would divert everything single level to the San Joaquin and take their double deckers... but that's just me...

Joe Cullum in Exeter ca

BOB2 Wrote:
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> What I am impressed by is how time competitive the
> Expo Line actually was, after the walk to the
> station, the wait for the train, and the walk to
> the Office.
>
> This is why frequency of service matters, since
> wait time is the one variable that can be changed
> with the Metro option. The parallel Metro train
> speed actually began passing the car, once it was
> on the Air Line ROW....another one of the success
> stories, I fought for in my long career.
>
> The Gold Line is much faster out of Downtown LA to
> Pasadena, and from Pasadena to Azusa is much
> faster than the I-210, and if you bike to the
> station, you beat the car, to anyplace within
> about 1 mile of a Gold Line station.
>
> Now, for someone to do this "travel time" race
> from LA to San Diego, or vice versa, by Amtrak,
> versus auto, on a Saturday afternoon... Where,
> given "normal" peak and weekend congestion on the
> I-5, the train often wins, by well over two hours.
> And, with a non stop 2 hour run time, to San
> Diego (where with complete DT, and some 110
> running, it is easily doable,) you can beat the
> traffic on I-5 by over 3 hours..
>
> It is a shame that our politicians, wasting
> billions on the taxpayer financed CAHSRA "cluster
> f3ck" in the Valley, don't seem to understand that
> spending that in places like LOSSAN, or even to
> do things like SMART "right" (like with double
> track, and providing high frequency service
> levels, that are needed to get folks to use it) is
> where we should be putting most of our scarce
> commuter and intercity rail dollars. Because it
> is where people who are stuck in the gridlocked
> traffic, do actually seem to fill these
> trains....?