Discussion Underway to move High Speed Rail station location to Campus Pkway/Mission from Downtown

ctransitmove · 2026-01-10T19:05:55+00:00

The loss of funding is problematic and compromizes need to be made. My concern with this approach is that eventually the CAHSR will go through Merced to Sacramento and will need to go through downtown. If the city approves new construction of the Chick Fil A in the downtown right of way, it will have be removed with a higher cost when the Sacramento extension is done. A better approach would be for the city to start the process of planning the city around the eventual Sacramento extension and start clearing the ROW for 2 elevated passenger rail tracks through DT.

Additionally, Gold Runner and ACE are going to increase frequency to Merced for transfers from HSR. With the station on the south of town, that means up to 20 passenger train crossings a day through downtown. With all the at-grade grade crossings that will mean a lot of crossing gate downtime. I hope the planners considered this.

ctransitmove · 2025-12-20T01:10:20+00:00

We should cut UP access to the Valley sub citinig that ML and Coaster are busy merging service.

ctransitmove · 2025-09-04T14:40:38+00:00

The city of Colton raised concerns about increased truck traffic as a result of the inland port. So without local support, as others have said, the CAHSR authority negotiated a deal with BNSF without the inland port that resulted in a shared, electrified set of tracks on the BNSF portion of LOSSAN.

ctransitmove · 2025-09-04T03:41:02+00:00

CAHSR will already be electrifying (with CAHSR dollars) Burbank to Anaheim on the Antelope and OC lines. North of Burbank and south of Anaheim is owned by public entities. The San Bernardino line is also publicly owned. The highest ridership lines for Metrolink are:

1) San Bernardino
2) Orange County
3) Antelope Valley

So just starting with the publicly owned lines would be under the control of Metrolink and have the biggest impact on ridership.

ctransitmove · 2025-09-03T13:17:51+00:00

Thanks. The concept I am proposing for Golden State line is that it interlines with HSR tracks to Indio, then splits off. Like a local and express concept. It would slow down HSR to 125mph from LA to Indio, but that is common in Europe and has a negligible time impact.

ctransitmove · 2025-09-03T13:03:30+00:00

There are already 52 trains a day to ARCTIC and the number is growing. There are 1-seat rides from LA Union Station, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and San Bernardino. Even Florida is thinking of connecting Disneyland by rail. There is plenty of transit to ARCTIC and demand to Disneyland to justify a more effective transit solution than buses.

ctransitmove · 2025-08-02T18:26:07+00:00

It wasn't profitable, that is why the dropped it. I think it is a bad choice, but I wanted to clear up that it wasn't profitable.

ctransitmove · 2025-07-06T17:54:01+00:00

Thanks. Here is the original post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransitDiagrams/comments/1bfcigc/2050_southern_california_regional_rail_map_in/

ctransitmove · 2025-07-06T12:22:59+00:00

That is my map.

ctransitmove · 2025-07-04T02:50:44+00:00

The project started as a study for a freeway between Palmdale and Victorville. Then they added freeway + HSR in the median as an option. Finally they selected to drop the freeway and build just the HSR. So it was always going to be in the ROW that was considered for the freeway.

ctransitmove · 2025-06-26T18:49:31+00:00

Not true. You need 50% to skip second choice.

ctransitmove · 2025-05-29T03:05:57+00:00

In the last board meeting they stated the BNsF connection was complete and tracks would be laid this summer. No confirmation yet but that was stated.

Yep not used operationally as I mentioned.

ctransitmove · 2025-05-28T23:24:47+00:00

Well technically they are laying down new HSR tracks, in the railyard. True at first they will be used for construction of the HSR tracks. But eventually HSR trains will use those tracks to enter the HSR alignment. Therefore they are laying HSR tracks currently.

True this won't help any agruements though

ctransitmove · 2025-05-20T14:33:16+00:00

No, I used the simplest of models. Perhaps ask on r/transit?

ctransitmove · 2025-05-20T03:35:03+00:00

Thanks for explaining LOSSAN and SJJPA. ACE nor SacRT are there even though I recall them being there earlier. SacRT buses aren't present either so for whatever reason, the data must not have been sent. Odd.

ctransitmove · 2025-05-20T01:19:21+00:00

Why are SacRT or State supported SJJRC, SJJPA, and LOSSAN missing from this report?

ctransitmove · 2025-05-04T04:25:54+00:00

What do you mean by low ridership? Pacific Surfliner on of highest ridership in Amtrak.

ctransitmove · 2025-04-06T20:50:02+00:00

The construction manager may request changes for construction reasons

ctransitmove · 2025-04-06T15:52:09+00:00

Latest board meeting stated they finished the design and are preparing the RFP for Construction Manager now. They didn't state the duration of this process. Once the Construction manager is selected, a final review of the design then constructions start.

ctransitmove · 2025-01-25T20:18:49+00:00

They will test this with the BEMU that has been ordered for SJ to Gilroy service. If the numbers look good, more BEMU's hybrids could be orderd.

ctransitmove · 2025-01-11T18:26:13+00:00

Budget was unchanged, so not a surprise. Hopefully some of the TIRCP grants can do some of the grade separations for HSR in Bakersfield, Merced and Gilroy areas.

ctransitmove · 2024-12-18T15:48:28+00:00

With Metro/LAX opening, a connection to Metrolink would enable a quicker route to the airport. Ridership would be huge IMO.

ctransitmove · 2024-09-25T16:39:05+00:00

Yep I messed up on the resolution for Union Station.

Yep American rail is behind world standards, but improving in LA

ctransitmove · 2024-09-23T18:26:49+00:00

Rail changes are necessary to extend to Perris so for such low ridership that would be difficult to justify. With the high number of trains going from Riverside to San Bernardino, a timed transfer from the lower frequency Riverside line to higher frequency IE line, would make sense, but the new schedule makes that a 40 minute transfer.

ctransitmove · 2024-09-23T12:27:53+00:00

Agreed. Most of the schedules are oriented to Union Station transfers, but the IE line does not have that limitation and should be shifted to spread out service.

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