Comments on: LA Times Reports on HSR Controversy, Not HSR Facts

By: Kiel Famellos-Schmidt

Kiel Famellos-Schmidt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:05:35 +0000

Luke,

I appreciate the link. And thank you for contributing to the discussion.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:06:49 +0000

If all trains ended at Union Station, you’d save X billions of dollars on cost overruns to Anaheim. You wouldn’t even lose the ridership – people would take Metrolink to HSR, just like people living on all other Metrolink lines.

And if Metrolink were electrified and a few HSR trains were sent to Anaheim at lower speed, you’d gain ridership because of the improvement in connecting transit.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:04:22 +0000

Well, SNCF has just complained that 1 in 5 TGV services is unprofitable. The horrors!

By: Matthew F.

Matthew F. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:57:35 +0000

No “If” about it – the current business plan calls for 6 expresses SF – LA-Union Station, 6 more almost-expresses from SF – Anaheim.

Transfers kill ridership. If all trains ended at Union Station, you’d lose a lot of ridership.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:36:03 +0000

Just because there are many stations along the route doesn’t mean that the service will be as slow as BART outside of the central valley. Each train does not need stop at every station. I would expect there to be express trains that run between major stations without stopping at intermediate stations in between (Caltrain baby bullets, for example).

By: Robert Cruickshank

Robert Cruickshank — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:12:30 +0000

Should add that Bart solicited and included an article from me about HSR in Cal Rail News about a year ago. So it’s further evidence he isn’t stacking these publications with hit pieces, he’s fair about this.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:09:56 +0000

Probably doesn’t mean anything, but the LA Times was also one of the leading voices against building a subway for Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:53:56 +0000

The place the CHSRA is currently looking at is north of the current Metrolink stop – just west of the Burbank town center. Metrolink would also move here – it is currently a vacant lot.

By: jimsf

jimsf — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:51:39 +0000

like this i mean

By: jimsf

jimsf — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:49:25 +0000

CSS? Is that context sensitive solutions? (Think I've read that here before.) What part of burbank would be considered sort of the heart of downtown? San Fernando Rd? Burbank Town Center? Alameda? Magnolia? okay I'm going to go with this... a station at approx. the existing station, but witha covering over of a portion of i-5 that connects and expands downtown E Olive or E Angelino sort of like this.... or actually - cover the 5 between olive and magnolia here and situation the elevated station stucture with tod uing air rights over the freeway to make it fluid with downtown like this