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Post by culvercitylocke on May 1, 2019 21:22:20 GMT -8
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Post by culvercitylocke on May 3, 2019 11:21:03 GMT -8
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Post by culvercitylocke on May 3, 2019 11:31:55 GMT -8
This is the furthest west option that was studied.
Capital Cost in 2015 dollars: 3.613 Billion (lowest cost, next lowest is 3.764 billion for the Ave 21/ road 13 option)
Total Length: 51 miles (the shortest of the four alts) At Grade: 46.5 miles (the least amount of at grade, all others were 48.5 Elevated: 4.5 miles (the most) Below Grade - 0 - (the only one that was zero)
27 "straddle" bents (the fewest) 1 rail crossing 13 major water crossings
57 road crossings (the fewest) 33 road closures (second least) 24 road overcrossings and undercrowwings 1 TPS 1 Switching station 7 paralleling stations 19 signalling elements 9 communication towers 37 wildlife crossing structures (the fewest)
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Post by culvercitylocke on May 9, 2019 8:39:15 GMT -8
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Post by jahanes on May 11, 2019 15:56:58 GMT -8
If only they had built the tehachapi pass section first. Even with the same level of delays, we could've at least had a norcal-socal rail link.
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Post by culvercitylocke on Jun 1, 2019 7:33:29 GMT -8
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Post by culvercitylocke on Jun 10, 2019 9:59:32 GMT -8
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Post by culvercitylocke on Jun 22, 2019 0:03:14 GMT -8
The Supreme Court in a now typical activist 5-4 conservative majority overthrew hundreds of years of legal precedent regarding property takings. Wealthy people can now bypass local and state jurisdictions, laws and regulations and go straight to federal court with their complaints to nullify anything they don’t like in state or local regulation on the grounds it’s an impingement of their property.
Basically it means the cahsr will never acquire any more parcels. Project will probably be very dead very soon.
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Post by culvercitylocke on Feb 25, 2020 15:02:54 GMT -8
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Post by culvercitylocke on Mar 12, 2020 18:07:01 GMT -8
Burbank to LA US webcast hsr.ca.gov/high_speed_rail/project_sections/burbank_los_angeles.aspx7 grade separations Buena Vista Sonora Grandview Flower Goodwin Ave (Chevy Chase drive closed to cars, bike, peds ok) sperry st / salem st 14 miles total, electrified on the corridor Burbank airport station underground with the burbank airport dogleg from the antelope valley line to the ventura county line.
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Post by culvercitylocke on May 29, 2020 13:31:59 GMT -8
DEIR for Burbank to LAUnion Station www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/programs/burbank_los_angeles/BLA_Summary_DEIREIS.pdf$3.554 billion, 22km total length for a cost of $161.5 million / km (including 318 million lard for consultants) But this is with their insane estimate of the entirely subterranean Burbank station costing $134 million, or a third the cost of a smaller Purple line station. 2 miles of tunnel, 7.5 miles at grade 4.25 miles retained fill 6 water crossings, 32 road crossings 2 road closures 5 grade separations: Sonora Ave, Grandview Ave, Flower-Pelanconi, chevy chase dr-goodwin
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Post by bluelineshawn on May 30, 2020 12:30:21 GMT -8
DEIR for Burbank to LAUnion Station www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/programs/burbank_los_angeles/BLA_Summary_DEIREIS.pdf$3.554 billion, 22km total length for a cost of $161.5 million / km (including 318 million lard for consultants) But this is with their insane estimate of the entirely subterranean Burbank station costing $134 million, or a third the cost of a smaller Purple line station. 2 miles of tunnel, 7.5 miles at grade 4.25 miles retained fill 6 water crossings, 32 road crossings 2 road closures 5 grade separations: Sonora Ave, Grandview Ave, Flower-Pelanconi, chevy chase dr-goodwin That cost does seem low, but consider that the Burbank station will be shallow cut and cover, with no mezzanine level. Just the tracks and platforms. The rest of the station infrastructure will be above ground.
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Post by culvercitylocke on Feb 10, 2021 11:21:19 GMT -8
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Post by culvercitylocke on Mar 23, 2021 9:11:53 GMT -8
Feel like elected officials from these districts need to be submitting any of these undone projects for earmarks in the upcoming infrastructure bill.
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Post by bluelineshawn on Mar 23, 2021 10:40:44 GMT -8
Feel like elected officials from these districts need to be submitting any of these undone projects for earmarks in the upcoming infrastructure bill. According to Phil Washington when speaking at the metro planning committee meeting, the preferred earmarks will be used to complete projects, but will only be $500,000-$2 million. That won't go very far with most construction.
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Post by culvercitylocke on May 20, 2021 10:48:26 GMT -8
Looks like Newsom will have electrification Prop1A bonds obligated, ensuring the central valley is finished. and 3 billion in funds for rail, a lot of which will be directed at metrolink and cal train connectivity preps (grade separations etc). It'd be amazing if the federal infrastructure bill matched that, we'd build like half of metrolink's SCORE wishlist with that money. That should take away most of the state legislature pressure that's been so enthusiastic to pollute the Central Valley with dirty diesel trains. calendar.santa-clarita.com/event/city_cinemas_-_shrek#.YKWpWZNKjRY
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Post by andert on Aug 6, 2022 9:59:15 GMT -8
Question for you all here: In the FEIR for Burbank-LA, the plan is to have one pair of electrified tracks shared by HSR, Metrolink, an Amtrak, and a second pair of un-electrified tracks shared by Metrolink, Amtrak, and Freight (and it is these tracks that service Glendale and Burbank stations, and would service River Park and Grandview/Sonora if they got built, although the Grandview/Sonora station idea doesn't take into account the fact that HSR will grade separate the tracks at those two intersections). It seems that Union Pacific may have insisted on the 2nd pair of tracks being un-electrified. This seems like a major missed opportunity to me... If they're already doing significant work along the corridor, wouldn't it be a huge benefit to electrify all four tracks at the same time? Which would enable more metrolink and amtrak trains to use higher speeds along the route? (It seems that most relevant agencies prefer a hybrid future, with locomotives able to run both on hydrogen cells and OCS, allowing trains to easily make use of a partially-electrified system). And it seems that there wouldn't be any negatives for UP from those tracks being electrified as long as they were high enough to accommodate double-stacked freight, which is often done. Plus the tracks are publicly-owned, not UP tracks.
I know one of the issues too may be that this would add a large cost to the construction contract that wouldn't actually benefit HSR, but couldn't metrolink try to fund it separately but build it within the same contract as HSR? It just seems like a giant mistake we'll be regretting for years or decades to do all that work on that section and not electrify all four tracks...
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Post by fissure on Aug 17, 2022 10:41:16 GMT -8
HSR isn't going to be frequent enough for this section to need more than 2 tracks for quite a while. The strategy outlined in the FEIR is almost criminally stupid.
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