Re: 2024 California State Rail Plan? Yes, short distance corridors north make a lot of sense.
Author: BOB2
Date: 01-10-2025 - 07:59
Anonymoose Wrote:
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> "The build-out of regional service in the
> Sacramento
> region will include half-hourly service to
> Roseville
> and new service to Chico."
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> Cbk Wrote:
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> > Did I miss something or are there no plans for
> > rail passenger service north of Sacramento?
Travel market demand analysis and demand modeling seem to be missing from a lot of this typical Caltrans State Rail "planning" document. There is also a complete lack of "intermodal" analysis, between future highway demand needs and costs and potential rail demand needs and costs, or any consideration of cost/benefit tradeoffs, or even cost benefit "criteria" used in identifying and/or prioritizing rail projects. It's a typical Caltrans, Division of Fail, State Rail Plan, with more projects, and the usual "build it and they will come" (at least the contractors will...) cheerleading for the giant fiasco.
ACE, and the corridor agencies seem to have a better handle on the travel markets and potentially better performing options. And the plan to re-build what was (IIRC?) the old SN Mainline as a "low" speed (90-125) HSR line to Chico and the other ACE/SJC/Cap planning seems to reflect this adult/taxpayer/travel responsive "needs" based/demand-based/market-based rail planning, that never ever occurred in the planning of the CAHSRA fiasco, and which I have never really witnessed at Caltrans Division of Fail for most of the last 30 years.