Love seeing the buzz around this announcement. I desperately hope the projects don’t get mired in development hell for political reasons
Most likely it will.
I travel from Salem to Seattle often. I’d love a high speed rail option. Hopefully they expand the schedule as well.
I wish that it would come a little (see: a lot) further and connect to Alaska. It would be so convenient to take a high speed train down to Seattle.
It really should also connect to SF/LA/SD.
Eventually. If the northwest high speed rail is successful and California High Speed Rail is successful, there’s incentive to extend each and eventually connect, assuming there’s suitable land. Unfortunately, not likely to be in my lifetime
maybe just SF and catch CHSR… i mean a plane to LAX
When I lived in Seattle a few years ago, the rail service to Vancouver was terrible. Presumably still is.
Several times a year, the tracks would get shut down by weather or mudslides, and train passengers would be forced onto busses with what can only be described as the world’s least comfortable seats.
When the tracks were open, the train was pleasant enough. Not anything like high speed though. Always seemed to have delays.
I took the Amtrak down from this side of the border once and I swear there were pensioners walking beside the tracks faster than the train was going.
Me on my island looking across the water to those exact three cities my island neighbours and waiving my fist “mainlanders and their big projects”.
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It is kinda nice to see Amtrak swing for the fences, but there are so many huge gains that could be made on the Cascades with smaller investments. Stuff like the Point Defiance bypass.
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It’s for a study. The result is to be whether it fits the criteria
The homeless grifters are all delighted, they cannot wait to take a shit on them.
Every time I’ve taken a HSR, both in the US (Acela) and abroad, I have had a good experience. It’s typically far better than flying.
