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Originally Posted by twoNeurons
Transferring from your local station only station to a Major station is common. Like if only all-stops served say Palo Alto and you’d hop off in San Jose to grab the limited stop from San Jose on the way to LA. ( more or less the same price so you might as well.
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All CAHSR trains, including the express trains, are going to stop in San Jose, SFO, and DTSF. There they will have cross-platform transfers to Caltrains.
Which, for the 10th time, is being upgraded to very fast electric commuter rail on a completely grade-separated ROW. So it's basically turning into BART, with a max of 6 trains per hour per direction.
Same with all of the Metrorail commuter rail between Burbank, LA, Riverside, and San Diego. It is all going to be fully grade separated, just like a rapid transit line. If it is electrified, it will be an incredible service.
No way does the political will exist today to spend the tens of billions necessary to upgrade Southern California's commuter rail network to a fully grade-separated system independent of High Speed Rail.
People on the internet can sit around and whine about a maglev or a shorter I-5 HSR system but can't face the fact that connecting DTLA and DTSF is only one feature of CAHSR and not its central mission, and the 20-minute time savings that would be produced by spending $30 billion to dig a 30-mile tunnel under Silicon Valley isn't going to win the system almost any riders.
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