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High speed rail in the United States. I have 4 series in progress: 1) Stew's News. The U.S. HSR news of each month in one presentation. Uploaded the last Monday of each month. 2)FRA HSR Corridors. The Federal Railroad Administration has designated 10 HSR Corridors in the U.S. plus the Northeast Corridor(or NEC). I'm doing a video about each to see what a train averaging 140-160mph might look like in those corridors. 3) HSR City Pairs. This looks at U.S. pairs with metro populations of 1 million or more and no large city between, that could be connected by high speed rail. 4) Taking Back The Streets/Taking Back The Rails. Looks at more radical ideas of assuming freeway and freight right of way for HSR in slightly more practical terms with a tongue-in-cheek presentation.
Since I'm not far from the southern end of the proposed Brightline West route, I'll probably also provide regular updates on that once it gets started.
Since I'm not far from the southern end of the proposed Brightline West route, I'll probably also provide regular updates on that once it gets started.
High Speed Rail In Texas and Oklahoma? | South Central HSR Corridor At Hypothetical True High Speed
San Antonio, Texas to Tulsa, Oklahoma at high speed, you ask? We're continuing to look at the Federal Railroad Administration's high speed rail corridors and what it would be like to build them at true high speed. In this video we will look at one portion of the South Central High Speed Rail Corridor, from San Antonio, through Austin, Fort Worth, and Oklahoma City, and ending in Tulsa. The route roughly follows interstate 35 on its journey through the Lone Star State into the heartland of Oklahoma. However, the interstate is not so inviting, and battles over land acquisition have cost Texas Central between Houston and Dallas dearly. So where will go? How much will it cost? Is it worth bui...
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Stew's High Speed Rail News - Sept 2024 | CAHSR DFW Texas Central Northeast Corridor Brightline West
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California High Speed Rail gets a new CEO, Brightline West gets new money, Illinois gets a new plan, and more in this action packed exploration of all the U.S. high speed rail news that matter from August of 2024. At the moment we're looking at developments with California High Speed Rail, Brightline West, Cascadia High Speed Rail, Texas Central Railway, Dallas Fort Worth High Speed Transportat...
Denver to Kansas City High Speed Rail All Renders | HSR Behind The Scenes
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3D Renders for a hypothetical high speed rail line between Denver, Colorado and Kansas City, Missouri via Topeka and Lawrence, Kansas. These renders were created for my video High Plains High Speed Rail. I had to cut about 2/3 of this content out of that video. Here are all the 3D visuals I created, using Unreal Engine 5, for your view pleasure and to help you imagine what it might be like to r...
What Would High Speed Rail Between Denver and Kansas City LOOK LIKE? High Plains High Speed Rail
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More High Speed Rail is coming to the United States. Where will it pop up next? Could it be from Denver to Kansas City, potentially linking vast regional networks into a national high speed rail network? Could we see high speed train travel from Denver to Dallas or Kansas City to Chicago?. In this video I will explore what a hypothetical high speed rail route between the Denver and Kansas City ...
Stew's U.S. High Speed Rail News August 2024 | Brightline West, CAHSR, DFW HST, Acela/NEC And More!
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Amtrak is building bridges on the NEC, Dallas and Arlington are burning bridges with Dallas/Fort Worth HSR, and California High Speed Rail is designing tunnels. All this and more in this month's episode of high speed rail news for the United States. For the moment I am covering what I can find concerning California High Speed Rail, Brightline West, Texas Central High Speed Rail, Cascadia Ultra ...
High Speed Rail From Los Angeles to Phoenix? What Would It Look Like?
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High Speed Rail is booming in the United States. Where will it pop up next? Could it be from Los Angeles to Phoenix to join the HSR work currently being done in California? Could we see high speed train travel from Phoenix to San Francisco or downtown Los Angeles to Las Vegas. In this video I will explore what a hypothetical high speed rail route between the Los Angeles and Phoenix metro area m...
How YOU Would Improve the Northeast Corridor For High Speed Rail
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The fight to the death over Acela service on the NEC being high speed rail was a draw. Are you ready for a rematch? I took your feedback from the previous Northeast Corridor video into consideration. In this video we will take a look at several commenter suggestions, and a few other ideas to further flesh out the subject of improving high speed rail on the NEC. The Northeast Corridor is a mammo...
Stew's July U.S. High Speed Rail News 2024 | Dallas Fort Worth HST CAHSR Acela NEC Brightline West
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Dallas Fort Worth HST hits a Dallas-sized speed bump, California High Speed Rail hits a Congress-sized speed bump, and the NEC hits an electron-sized speed bump. All this and more in this month's episode of high speed rail news for the United States. I am covering what I can find concerning the various active and possible high speed rail projects in the U.S. These include California High Speed ...
CAHSR Road Trip Silicon Valley - Merced, Gilroy, San Jose, San Francisco California High Speed Rail
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On the road again... to check out California High Speed Rail plans from a person-eye view, and with some renders for parts I missed. 500 miles from Anaheim to San Francisco by road, catching the important parts of the CAHSR Phase 1 route in 2 days. In this episode, it's over 160 miles of investigating what's going on with plans for the CAHSR section from the Central Valley to Silicon Valley and...
CAHSR Phase 1 Road Trip - Bakersfield, Hanford, Fresno, Madera, Merced - California High Speed Rail
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Hitting the road to check out California High Speed Rail construction from a person-eye view, which you likely haven't seen before. 500 miles from Anaheim to San Francisco by road, catching the CAHSR route everywhere I could in 2 days. In this episode, it's over 170 miles of investigating what's going on with construction and plans for the Central Valley. Grab the cooler, a 12-pack of Cokes, an...
CAHSR Road Trip - Anaheim, Los Angeles, Burbank, Palmdale, Bakersfield - California High Speed Rail
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We're hitting the road to see California High Speed Rail as you've not seen it before. 500 miles from Anaheim to San Francisco by road, catching the CAHSR route everywhere I could in 2 days. Grab the cooler, a 12-pack of Cokes, and some snacks because we're taking a road trip, baby! In this first episode of the California High Speed Rail Road Trip, we'll check out the route as best we can betwe...
Stew's U.S. High Speed Rail News June 2024 | Brightline West CAHSR DFW HST Acela NEC Keystone
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Brightline West chooses a trainset, San Francisco gets transit funding, Amtrak deals with a big outage on the NEC. All this and more in this month's episode of high speed rail news for the United States. For the moment I am covering what I can find concerning California High Speed Rail, Brightline West, Texas Central High Speed Rail, Cascadia Ultra High Speed Rail, Acela / Northeast Corridor, a...
The U.S. Pacific Northwest High Speed Rail Corridor At True High Speed? | Cascadia HSR
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Looking at the Federal Railroad Administration's high speed rail Pacific Northwest Corridor and what it would be like to build a true HSR line from centered around from Vancouver British Columbia to Eugene, Oregon via Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. The route runs through the Willamette River Valley in Oregon, then along mostly Interstate 5 through the hearts of Portland and Seattle b...
San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot And Several Trains The Evening of 4/30/24
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Sights and sounds of San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot in San Bernardino, CA as the sun sets on another southern California day, April 30th, 2024. I was there to drop off Papa Stew as he picked up the Amtrak Southwest Chief train to Arizona. While waiting, I decided to pick up some more media for use in various videos. But you can see it here first! We have: The Depot Metrolink Metrolink Arrow Serv...
Stew's High Speed Rail News May 2024 | Brightline West Texas Central CAHSR Acela NEC
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Brightline West breaks ground, Texas Central gets a diplomatic boost, California High Speed Rail adopts a business plan. All this and more in this month's episode of high speed rail news for the United States. For the moment I am covering what I can find concerning California High Speed Rail, Brightline West, Texas Central High Speed Rail, Cascadia Ultra High Speed Rail, Acela / Northeast Corri...
Chicago Milwaukee Hiawatha HSR ? | Taking Back The Rails | Chicago Hub Network
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Chicago Milwaukee Hiawatha HSR ? | Taking Back The Rails | Chicago Hub Network
Extending The Northeast Corridor & Acela Service to Virginia
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Extending The Northeast Corridor & Acela Service to Virginia
The Brightline West HSR Route Rendered With Unreal Engine 5
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The Brightline West HSR Route Rendered With Unreal Engine 5
Stew's U.S. High Speed Rail News April 2024 | Brightline West CAHSR Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth
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Stew's U.S. High Speed Rail News April 2024 | Brightline West CAHSR Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth
The U.S. Northern New England High Speed Rail Corridor At True High Speed?
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The U.S. Northern New England High Speed Rail Corridor At True High Speed?
California High Speed Rail : A Park & Ride Nightmare | CAHSR
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California High Speed Rail : A Park & Ride Nightmare | CAHSR
Stew's March 2024 High Speed Rail U.S. News | CAHSR Brightline West Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth
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Stew's March 2024 High Speed Rail U.S. News | CAHSR Brightline West Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth
Visualizing High Speed Rail From Chicago To Detroit
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Visualizing High Speed Rail From Chicago To Detroit
What If You Replaced Interstate 35 In Texas With High Speed Rail? | Taking Back the Streets SA 2 DFW
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What If You Replaced Interstate 35 In Texas With High Speed Rail? | Taking Back the Streets SA 2 DFW
Improving The Northeast Corridor and Acela Into World Class High Speed Rail
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Improving The Northeast Corridor and Acela Into World Class High Speed Rail
Stew's Feb 2024 U.S. High Speed Rail News | CAHSR Brightline West Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth Cascadia
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Stew's Feb 2024 U.S. High Speed Rail News | CAHSR Brightline West Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth Cascadia
Visualizing Brightline West in Cajon Pass
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Visualizing Brightline West in Cajon Pass
2023 American High Speed Rail Year In Review | Stews News | CAHSR Northeast Corridor Brightline West
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2023 American High Speed Rail Year In Review | Stews News | CAHSR Northeast Corridor Brightline West
Stew's U.S. High Speed Rail News JAN 2024 | CAHSR Brightline West Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth Cascadia
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Stew's U.S. High Speed Rail News JAN 2024 | CAHSR Brightline West Acela NEC Dallas Ft Worth Cascadia
CAHSR Phase 2 | California High Speed Rail Merced to Sacramento
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CAHSR Phase 2 | California High Speed Rail Merced to Sacramento
I just realized what those from-the-air (or satellite) pics of US cities remind me of: they remind me of the bombed-out German cities after WW II, most of the area looking like a wasteland, not like a city. (I'm not claiming anything beyond that's an association I have when I look at them.)
Many stops for HSR. But I guess build it right with passing tracks at (some of) the smaller stations and do build the extra ones you showed, then you could have a line with Expresses going between the major stations and regionals doing all-stopping services. All able to go the same high top speed. Similar to Acela and the Northeast Regional. Make the stations well connected locally, and allow the surrounding blocks to actually develop, and bam! Texas is a place where the train going every half hour along this spine just goes without saying for everyone.
Imagine OKC to Fort Worth within a hour or less
This is never going to happen. The people in these parts of the country are too greedy and stupid to pull this off. California High-Speed Rail will barely occur in the San Joaquin Valley, and that's with a culture that's far more pro-public infrastructure projects.
Never happen. No way would those VA towns like Ashland they will not want overhead lines.
The part through Ashland is a tunnel.
a yearly maintenance cost estimate would be super useful as well, then you could estimate viability of such things at the end of your videos.
I'm already having a hard enough time producing these things. I unfortunately don't have time to come up with a whole ridership estimate that could inform a schedule that would determine how much equipment is required that would tell you what the maintenance costs would be.
Stu, loving the video so far, great stuff as always, but I seriously have to pause at OKC so I can push back on the thought of skipping Denton as a stop and using Gainesville instead. As you mentioned, Amtrak already serves Gainesville, but Denton is not served. Additionally, Denton has the A-Train, a light commuter rail that goes along I-35E to the Trinity Mills Station for DART and potential future additions, adding more connectivity/ beneficial redundancy. Finally, Denton is home to the University of North Texas, which - generally speaking - has a student body (~47,000) that would fervently support and use rail connections of this sort. Obviously the video is already made, but if you ever came back to re-examine this….. if you were ever invited to a panel to discuss proposals (a la Ray Delahanty from City Nerd) then I would urge you to consider Denton more strongly.
The video is an example to give an overall impression that people probably don't otherwise have because no one has bothered to think of it in these terms. It's not a blueprint for building the thing. That's a multi-year, multi--hundred-million dollar endeavor that involves multiple rounds of meeting with stakeholders and considering factors far beyond my 10,000 foot view. In my view Krum, 6 miles away, would have sufficed compared to an undesirable station option on the east side of Denton, but who knows what would be included if someone actually tried building something like this.
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you made a bobo stew san antiono has a sububan rail line from downtown to the northwestern suburb of leander.
You made a boo-boo. Leander is in the Austin Metropolitan area, not San Antonio.
I know it’s in Canada but I’d love to see a video about the Windsor to Quebec City corridor. It’s comparable in size and population to the Northeast Corridor and it should have high speed rail
kileen has a huge military base just west of it so it realy dose need a regional station maybe kinda between killeen and gtemple.
why not under austin airport,
More expensive. If one considers $51 billion inexpensive, then go for it. The basic idea here is that the U.S. doesn't have the stomach for HSR, so I'm not going to aim too high and make it an instant 'no'.
how much bigger then texarkana is tulsa and way dose it go east to tulsa and not north to wichita. and probably kansas vity is a much more logical hsr line the kansas city - denver is.
Texarkana is about 1/6 the size of Tulsa. I don't know why they defined the corridor the way they did, but it doesn't include between Arkansas and Tulsa. It's forked at Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Trains in Texas are a "Hard Fail!"
I think it's an interesting note that you've dealt with the issue of the Del Rio sub out of SP Sunset going east instead of north by just rebuilding the turnout with Austin ML 2 at the end of East Yard. As the tree lines might imply, one kind of used to exist, but it was a small transfer between the SP and MKT sides of Fort Sam Houston's formerly quite extensive rail system. The Texas Eagle actually reverses for several miles out of the station to get on Austin ML 1 this reason. Other rail proposals such as the infamous Lone Star Rail have always used the old MP station on the other side of downtown on Austin ML 1, which has the distinct advantage of actually going northbound. The station and its former yard are also already owned by Via transit, but of course Sunset is more ideal just for its location.
That was where I looked first, but the right of way is narrow north of there for a bit. In hindsight the east side station has the same problem. Out to New Braunfels those 2 are pretty similar. From what I can tell the Texas TGV plans would have continued in or next to Del Rio past Randolph AFB, then greenfield to the northeast to Austin-Bergstrom. In the south that deviation appears to start at Cibolo. I'm looking at populations. Cibolo 1990: 1,700. 2023: 32k. New Braunfels 1990: 27k. 2023: 110k. Really remarkable how much easier that direction would have been 30 years ago.
8:25 it is just too funny how you say all these german names. 😂😂 Braunfels means Brown rock 🪨. And Schlitterbahn means slipping track.
I strongly agree that this HSR should begin at Eugene! Thank You! The Eugene/Springfield population is much bigger than 400k with all the nearby smaller towns and relatively dense expanded rural housing. It would also be a good commuter extension from/to Salem and Portland.
Have you considered doing a concept for extension of Brightline West from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City in time for the 2034 Winter Olympics, using the Rio Grande Plan as the Salt Lake City terminus?
Those surface parking lots in Fort Worth were recently announced to be turned into new Texas A&M University buildings that are at least 7 stories tall. But there is an under utilized building near Fort Worth Central station that could combine with the next door Ashton Depot (a former rail station) to make an awesome dedicated HRS station if you dont want to use Fort Worth Central Station
why not run it through the undeveopled hills of san antonio and run through the median of s1 while rerouting the frieght line in between it.
I don’t understand why Amtrak can’t implement this, sure funding is always an issue when it comes to high-speed rail in America. But at this point I’m pretty sure Amtrak has the money for this. Idk man, I’m I’m pretty much feeling what that guy at the end of this video. Just Watching your videos LucidStew just makes you feel like Amtrak should be implementing these routes now! Sending love to the amount of work you put into these videos!!👏👏
Thanks!
Given that Texas can't keep the lights on, perhaps the trains should be 160 MPH gas-turbines, bet you could push that to 180 MPH. Skipping Austin seems fine with light rail transit connection, HSR in East Asia often skips city centers in favor of big suburban stations that can anchor new business districts. These cities have high growth rates, so they are similar to China in that regard.
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Another potential extension could be from Oklahoma City or Tulsa to Wichita Kansas.
You would actually want to extend it up past Wichita to where the Amtrak line running from Kansas City to Albuquerque is located in Newton, KS.
Haha missed opportunity for “Nawrth of Fawrt Wawrth” 😉
All of the south, north, and worth wasn't easy. I almost DID say that. :D
Don't forget to add Georgetown and Denton as potential stops for this line.
He did include Georgetown when talking about the development of regional rail services along this route, but yeah I was gobsmacked that Denton got left out!
Honestly, Lucid, there’s an option that hasn’t been investigated because the railroad is abandoned Rock Island. The route starts at Tucumcari, NM and follows I-40 through Oklahoma City and onto Tulsa the route also continues to Little Rock, AR, and could eventually connect to Nashville, TN. The route was abandoned in 1980 and has had many attempts at rebuilding service between NM, OK, AR, and TN. By buying an abandoned right-of-way it would cost more initially, but it could be electrified as there are power plants in OK and AR. Also buy building the service through mostly abandoned North Texas and central OK, since it already sees Amtrak Service it could be upgraded as time and money allow.
I think you might be onto something. This route would provide a way to travel by train between the South and the Southwest that crosses the Mississippi at a point other than Chicago, New Orleans, or St. Louis, helping eliminate potential bottlenecks in those areas. Couple that with the proposed revived service on the “Meridian Speedway” going west from Meridian, MS via either Birmingham or Montgomery, through Vicksburg, on past Shreveport and going to Dallas/Fort Worth and there’s plenty of east-west links.
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So you're skipping Denton,Texas? It's home to the University of North Texas, Texas Women's University, and the historically Black Texas College. You usually love to add college ridership to your proposed high speed rail lines.
For an express train? Yes. The line runs within 6 miles of Denton. A stop could easily be added in the area, like the mentioned Sanger stop.
@@LucidStewStuuuuuu…. Nooooooo
Considering the population growth patterns this should be one of the top priority projects in the nation, if it weren't constrained by GOP thinking that is... But these cities are increasingly Blue which will lead to more of a priority for public transit projects of all kinds I am sure...
We don’t need stops at airports unless they also stop in downtown.
19:02 my house is on the left side of I-35 right next to the highway.. but just out of frame, I lived 🥳
One idea is to have stops on the edges of cities, so people do no have to backtrack from a single hub.
Can you do a video like this about Nashville/Middle Tennessee area. I think you mentioned about Nashville in your Chicago Hub video.
Once you finish covering all of the different corridors are you going to make a video that shows the entire US network and ways to connect different corridors to one another?
The plan is to do a video about the various possible regional connectors, and then a "national" HSR map that I believe to be practical.
Coming from a Carolina resident (specifically SC), the Greenfield route makes more sense to me, with some exceptions. A Gastonia, NC stop is definitely a choice, but I guess it makes sense. Anderson, SC is also definitely another choice, but I can see why they'd want to connect it up. The west half of South Carolina has been expanding a lot more than the east half. Most SC residents, in my experience and from others I've spoken with, try to avoid Columbia, SC because it really is just a horrible city. It also gives the possibility of connecting up to Asheville, NC as that is also a rapidly growing city in NC. There could definitely be some improvements to the Greenfield route in where it goes and such. However, I think that the route would be highly beneficial to all states and regions. SC is definitely going to be the problem child as it is very prideful of being very rural. I think the route going the way it is acts as a way to appeal to the state and get it on board for the project. Sentiment for HSR is definitely growing in the state, though. Hopefully the creation of jobs for the state will help get it on board completely
I'd be interested to see what a HSR from El Paso north to Alburquerque then to Denver, Cheyenne, Casper up to Billings Montana would look like. Long and costly and while the populations are small maybe this could go a long way to make these places not so remote.
It would better for Oklahoma to have a rail system that connects a port in Houston, so they can get goods or oil/gas on a container ship.
That would be freight, and there's already several freight rail lines going from OK down in to Texas and several lines in Texas go to Houston. i.e. what you suggest already exists. The video is about passenger rail tho.
I actually favor this combined slightly with a modified Texas Central for Texas/Oklahoma. Dallas to Waco to College Station, then 1 branch to Austin Airport/SAT and another branch to Houston. That would be a good chunk of greenfield though, so I applaud the effort to stick to existing rights of way.
I was thinking about doing Houston-S.A. at some point and going over the various options. Or I might do a Texas Triangle video at some point.
Great work as always! Good job making I-35 work from AUS to SAT. I gave up and made a bypass using Hwy 183/Pickle Pkwy which is has a median. For downtown Austin, I would use Mopac expy and build a viaduct over the freight tracks. They did the exact same thing with I-35 through Austin!
Is the problem with Austin the curve as you get to the current amtrak station? because it looks on google and open railways map that the right of way is 75ish feet enough for 4 tracks and UP is single track there. I'd say getting to the urban core of such a large city is too important, to blow off with a stop next to the airport and putting in a 7 mile tunnel would be worth it. Pop back into the UP right of way around the West 35th street interchange.
It's closer to 60ft and you're not going to fit 2 electrified tracks and a freight track in that space. There's also no chance of widening the freeway, like would happen with I-30 and DFW HST. Austin is already pretty urban, and an airport station served by light rail would only be 10 miles from the core.
There needs to be more investment in local mass transit. The fact that San Antonio is expected to surpass Philly in population yet lacks even a single light rail line to connect downtown to any other part of the city or metro. It'd be GREAT is a student in San Marcos can spend a Sunday on the Riverwalk, but what if they want to visit relatives in a suburb? This is something missing form these high speed rail plans. Acela works well because each station is served by extensive bus. subway and regional rail service. DC, Baltimore, Philly, NYC, and Boston all have subways that make their Amtrak stations super useful for those who want to get to the suburbs from downtown.
Land use would be the difficult thing, but not insurmountable.
@@PASH3227 SA band light rail. There just now finally getting a BRT.
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Thank you. We're well on our way to trip #4 for Rancho-Vegas
Great video as always. Loved the inclusion of a "local" HST and a sprinter/express HST
That freight spur in new Braunfels is already getting closed down and redeveloped. This is such a good video for someone that’s from new Braunfels that now lives in Austin.
25:15 do you have a slide with cost estimates per segment? ie San Ant-Austin, Austin DFW, DFW OKC, OKC-Tulsa?
No, but I still have the Google maps route. Give me some time and I can break it down.
the okc-tulsa section would be so popular even if it was only bi-hourly
Love these “could be “ videos! Would be amazing to have HSR in the US.
I from Kansas, wichita state university. I am now in California.