Title is somewhat misleading as the funding is for planning only.
Atlas3141 on
I really hope any federal funding for high speed rail goes to better projects than Portland-Seattle. The terrain, density, and lack of any suitable existing right of ways means any high speed rail would be a nightmare of land acquisition, tunneling, and speeds limited by curves.
Texas and the Midwest are much better targets, and if your going to do a difficult project, it should be between more populated city pairs than PDX-SEA. (Read routes out of Los Angeles)
I wouldn’t mind PTC, capacity and grade separation projects though to make existing Cascades route faster.
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Title is somewhat misleading as the funding is for planning only.
I really hope any federal funding for high speed rail goes to better projects than Portland-Seattle. The terrain, density, and lack of any suitable existing right of ways means any high speed rail would be a nightmare of land acquisition, tunneling, and speeds limited by curves.
Texas and the Midwest are much better targets, and if your going to do a difficult project, it should be between more populated city pairs than PDX-SEA. (Read routes out of Los Angeles)
I wouldn’t mind PTC, capacity and grade separation projects though to make existing Cascades route faster.