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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MightyAlweg: [QB] Buried in the $98 Billion news this week was another sad factor that has me questioning the entire thing. The HSR Commission has seemingly abandoned plans to send the system into a terminal in downtown San Francisco, and similarly into downtown LA and on to Anaheim as the once-planned southern terminus. The plan now is to stop the system in San Jose and Santa Clarita, and then expect riders to transfer to CalTrain or Metrolink trains to get to the city center. And this is included in the $98 Billion price tag; sending the systems into the actual cities is no longer factored into the cost estimates. DUMB! For instance, if I wanted to go from Orange County to San Francisco on a Saturday afternoon like today in the year 2033, I would drive to the station in Anaheim (goodbye ARTIC and that nifty plan Anaheim had) and board a Metrolink commuter train at 3:30 PM. I would then transfer to a separate Metrolink train at LA Union Station, and then arrive in Santa Clarita at 6:30 PM (times gleaned from Metrolinks own schedules). Then I would board the HSR and head north, arriving in San Jose two hours later, around 8:30 PM. I would then have to shlep my bags across the station to board a CalTrain consist for the one hour ride up to the Transbay Terminal, putting me in downtown San Francisco seven hours or more after my first train left Anaheim. God only knows what the cost of all this would be in 2033, but they have now raised the projected costs to be around $100, and we all know that will be higher 22 years from now. I can leave my house in OC comfortably at 3 for a 5 o'clock flight out of John Wayne, land in San Francisco at 5:45 PM, and either BART to town in under an hour or taxicab there in half that time and beat by at least three hours the four separate trains with three transfers the HSR would require. This is not what I voted for when I checked yes on the HSR bond measure back in '08. I want my vote back, please. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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