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Re: Line closed again due to slide in San Clemente.... No, IIRC AHSRC finally gave up and shut down around 1984...
Author: BOB2
Date: 01-25-2024 - 08:10
American High Speed Rail shut down around 1984, unlike Brightline, it was way ahead of it's time...
No current plans exist other than the original drawings done back then/ AHSRC proposed three new tunnels/bypasses, from the OC Troll Road/I-5 to San Onofre to bypass San Clemente, the Del Mar bluffs bypass, now nearly "shovel ready" but not fully funded, and what we used to call the "Jim Mills" tunnel under UCSD parallel to I-5, to eliminate the long slow climb into and out of San Diego.
The AHSRC operational and marketing goal was to build a max speed 140 mph. HSR line, running half hourly all day, with Shinkansen style equipment, allowing for an approximately 90 minute one way trip with local stops (about half of the worst time on Amtrak today). AHSRC estimated a daily ridership potential of 100,000 daily trips in the corridor even back then, long before it could take up to six hours to go from SD to LA on a summer Saturday morning.
No current plans exist other than the original drawings done back then/ AHSRC proposed three new tunnels/bypasses, from the OC Troll Road/I-5 to San Onofre to bypass San Clemente, the Del Mar bluffs bypass, now nearly "shovel ready" but not fully funded, and what we used to call the "Jim Mills" tunnel under UCSD parallel to I-5, to eliminate the long slow climb into and out of San Diego.
The AHSRC operational and marketing goal was to build a max speed 140 mph. HSR line, running half hourly all day, with Shinkansen style equipment, allowing for an approximately 90 minute one way trip with local stops (about half of the worst time on Amtrak today). AHSRC estimated a daily ridership potential of 100,000 daily trips in the corridor even back then, long before it could take up to six hours to go from SD to LA on a summer Saturday morning.
