Thanks for the insight! (@kieran) I am an SF rent HUD/Vash refugee as in they refused to allow me to transfer my housing voucher back to SF so I have been away for a long time. Yes, I was not suggesting sharing of tracks for any of these systems and I can not imagine high-speed rail […]
Utilizing a ESOP to capitalize infrastructure for California High-speed Rail California High Speed Rail authority is looking for private/public partnerships to fund construction of the San Jose to Merced segment and the Merced to Burbank segments We propose a leveraged income tax-free ESOP to build out these segments and to operate and maintain train […]
(A)(1) Would a California high-speed rail terminating at the San Jose Diderot station fuel BART and Caltrain passengers onto high-speed rail? And how many passengers would result from this combination of connections? (A)(2) Would these passenger volumes justify a three way partnership between VTA/BART and Caltrain and high speed rail to jointly tunnel under downtown […]
I to enjoy blogging about bay area mass transit and light rail and subways, most of my blogging as to about the economics of tunneling for multiple systems such as MUNI/BART under Market street. What is that economics? digging two or more tunnels would cost more right? but would cost twice as much or less.Can […]