(Brent P)
Although I believe it's "involvement" that you meant to type, I think we agree. Though remember, there's a lot of existing right of way and existing track that rail companies try to use. I'd bet that in cases is a big part of the costs-expenses of expanding rail travel.
How Did I Miss This One 3721On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:51:54 GMT, SD Dave Running a train across foreign territory to link two parts of the same country...
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Trying to link SAN and PHX with rail without entering Mexico would require either new rail tunnels, or pbutting up to areas near I-10 to find a flat enough grade to build across. Neither option is particularly good for rail travel or San Diego, so instead millions (or more) has been spend co-studying Mexican lands for part of the rails.
On top of that, any rail lines that try to bypbutt that region by going north have to pbutt through Downtown San Diego. Because Downtown SD hasn't grade separated the rails from the roads there's a ton of places that a train conductor has to honk the horn-be really careful to get to LA-Points North.
Can it be done? Yes, slowly. What's needed? More grade-separated rail-road crossings throughout urbanized areas. Double tracking areas north of MCAS Miramar, connecting Escondido and the I-15 Mesas and Villages to the rail lines, and double tracking of the Surfliner-Santa Fe lines north of and through Del Mar.
Del Mar and Cali can't afford to move the rail off the bluffs, which would lead to double-tracking. It's nost just unions and government, but it's also a lack of useful land to complete existing rail lines.
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Blaming the gov't-unions leaves out a bunch of the other issues, and is at the very least a shortsighted way to improve internation rail border crossings. Am I trying to argue with you? No. We both want to see rail maximized to full usage, I'm just trying to point out that there's a ton (thousands) of factors as to why rail isn't yet as useful as it could me.
Does this cost get pbutted on to consumers? I think we can all answer that.
Dave Hogan
