Re: 2024 TIRCP grant awards-A better list-Actual service expansion?
Author: BOB2
Date: 10-23-2024 - 17:32
That's a lot better list for rail.
Bluffs, San Luis Rey, San Clemente, Ortega, ACE/Cap/SJC Santa Clara upgrade, Stockton RR grade separation, Gateway UP/WSAB LRT, ML staging at the IE facility for expansions for new SB line services when Brightline opens, and more IE to Mission Viejo service, even "evil" SMART to Healdsburg, all got a good boost.
Lots of the IC and regional rail projects are aimed at future service expansion, which is certainly needed to penetrate these congested highway corridors... (It might just be nice just to get back up to pre-Covid service levels on LOSSAN to start with though, right????)
And all of transit bus funding apps for matching Federal funds to buy more of those pernicious Hindenburg like "evil" hydrogen fuel cell buses, with the range, capacity, and fast fueling capabilities some of those pesky transit operators seem to think that they need to operate efficiently...
Don't those transit agencies realize how "dangerous" and "dirty" "evil" hydrogen really is?
"Oh, the humanity..."