I’m generally in favor of that except its timing is weird. Eugene to San Francisco should also be phase 1. It seems more interested in connecting a lot of places to somewhere first rather than making sure that when things connect they go where people want them to. It’s very clear phase 1 is entirely focused on making every region get a piece, which I get, but at the same time, the draw of HSR is connecting regions.
Like, yeah Seattle-Portland would be nice, it would get used, but it’s a 3 hour drive. The killer feature that gets the PNW on the high speed rail is going to California.
No coast to coast until phase 3, but phase 2 connects Denver to Albuquerque, Oklahoma City to Tulsa, and Toronto to Syracuse all disconnected to anything more significant at that time.
I’m generally in favor of that except its timing is weird. Eugene to San Francisco should also be phase 1. It seems more interested in connecting a lot of places to somewhere first rather than making sure that when things connect they go where people want them to. It’s very clear phase 1 is entirely focused on making every region get a piece, which I get, but at the same time, the draw of HSR is connecting regions.
Like, yeah Seattle-Portland would be nice, it would get used, but it’s a 3 hour drive. The killer feature that gets the PNW on the high speed rail is going to California.
No coast to coast until phase 3, but phase 2 connects Denver to Albuquerque, Oklahoma City to Tulsa, and Toronto to Syracuse all disconnected to anything more significant at that time.