Comments on: CA4HSR Submits Altamont Scoping Comments

By: adirondacker12800

adirondacker12800 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:59:06 +0000

They wouldn’t have to build HSR to San Jose. Just like the people in Oakland and Walnut Creek and …. get “Let ‘em take BART” people in San Jose would get “Let ‘em take Caltrain” for a very long time until HSR goes to San Jose if it ever goes to San Jose.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:21:43 +0000

Once bart goes to both livermore and san jose, people can park and ride at the altamont pass/580 and bart to sjc. I would hope bart would run a livermore san jose line, although I don’ think they plan too.. Im sure they are mulling it over….

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:43:05 +0000

If they run all day long, they’re more general regional rail services. My point is that ACE currently serves commuters only, with 3-4 trains westbound in the morning and 3-4 eastbound in the afternoon. CHSRA isn’t looking to change that service pattern, merely to speed it up and grow ridership.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:12:46 +0000

Commuter rail operations run all day long on busy lines. Even in the US, there’s 2 tph service from New York to Stamford until about 10 pm.

By: adirondacker12800

adirondacker12800 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:59:11 +0000

The only maps I can find of STRACTNET have two lines headed for San Francisco from the east. Hard to tell what it is but they are both headed for Oakland. It isn’t the Caltrain ROW. STRACNET exists to move supplies from military depots to other installations and ports at the lowest cost. Suggest to the Department of Defense that they should spend a few billion building a bridge they don’t need to a port that is of marginal use to them, they’d probably find that the Port of Oakland is more than enough.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:46:46 +0000

Note that CHSRA is explicitly NOT billing the Altamont Corridor Project as a rival to the Capitol Corridor to Sacramento. This is about upgrading ACE, a service for long-distance commuting into Silicon Valley. Just because proponents have managed to finagle an intercity designation based on the length of the route doesn’t mean CHSRA is planning for intercity service with multiple service levels, all day long.

No, this is all about getting Silicon Worker bees who have been priced out of the residential real estate market there into their cubicles in the morning. The obvious alternative would be for employers to set up shop in the Central Valley, e.g. for data center operations.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:29:53 +0000

Only the entire Caltrain ROW.

By: adirondacker12800

adirondacker12800 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:18:48 +0000

Is anything on the Peninsula still part of STRACNET?

By: AndyDuncan

AndyDuncan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:22:24 +0000

@Joey: definitely, although they might be able to get away with a second BART tunnel and not a standard-gauge tunnel as well. Four new tracks across the bay would be best of course, transfers killing ridership and all.

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:18:56 +0000

“other than it nearing capacity”

That could prove to be a very serious issue in the near future…