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Re: Trainnews - volume 15 - issue 005 - Lots of good transit and passenger news
Author: BOB2
Date: 01-30-2022 - 09:28
All kinds of good news this week.
Brightline is becoming a reality from LA-LV....
Boca Station is going in.
Boca is interesting because these are the kind of mid-sized cities that will attract a lot of trips to and from the endpoints, which will become very time/cost competitive with auto trips in this corridor. As with the discussions of articles on the French regional systems and the Ohio proposals earlier, this is how rail service improvements in places like Ohio/Indiana/Michigan, that would also capture those kinds of trips. This is a perfect example of how a more affordable (to build and to operate) 110/125 range of higher speed/high frequency 12/16 bidirectional daily trains can effectively compete and attract trips at a that come at a lower cost per "butt mile" of person travel delivered, than the cost of adding more auto capacity.
And now, with Boca going in, all of the sudden, many of these mid coast Florida cities, some that gave Brightline a hard time, all seem to want to have stations, too.
Downtown to "Artesia" LRT (the UP Harbor/West Santa Ana Branch LRT from freight-line ROW conversion) is a good project, up to 90,000 riders, in a congested mess. Going only to Artesia with the extension means that Bruce has finally managed to completely screw his own City of Cerritos out of being the logical terminal station, which would be at the mall and civic center.
This will be awful news to the train hating trolls, though.
Brightline is becoming a reality from LA-LV....
Boca Station is going in.
Boca is interesting because these are the kind of mid-sized cities that will attract a lot of trips to and from the endpoints, which will become very time/cost competitive with auto trips in this corridor. As with the discussions of articles on the French regional systems and the Ohio proposals earlier, this is how rail service improvements in places like Ohio/Indiana/Michigan, that would also capture those kinds of trips. This is a perfect example of how a more affordable (to build and to operate) 110/125 range of higher speed/high frequency 12/16 bidirectional daily trains can effectively compete and attract trips at a that come at a lower cost per "butt mile" of person travel delivered, than the cost of adding more auto capacity.
And now, with Boca going in, all of the sudden, many of these mid coast Florida cities, some that gave Brightline a hard time, all seem to want to have stations, too.
Downtown to "Artesia" LRT (the UP Harbor/West Santa Ana Branch LRT from freight-line ROW conversion) is a good project, up to 90,000 riders, in a congested mess. Going only to Artesia with the extension means that Bruce has finally managed to completely screw his own City of Cerritos out of being the logical terminal station, which would be at the mall and civic center.
This will be awful news to the train hating trolls, though.
