'Progressives love passenger rail projects...but they generally don’t love them back. In the US, rail transit projects usually take too long & cost too much, are expensive to operate, & frequently produce disappointing ridership totals,' joffemd writes.
to reach Grand Central’s subway station, cutting into time savings and thus potential ridership gains from the project.
Not to be outdone by the Empire State, California is running its own costly rail projects. State legislators recently learned the state’s High-Speed Rail project is going to be more expensive, take longer to complete, and carry fewer riders than previously expected. Approved by voters in 2008, HSR is expected to begin service sometime between 2030 and 2033, after $33 billion has been spent.
To link San Francisco with Los Angeles and Anaheim, the High-Speed Rail Authority expects to require an additional $80 billion to complete the project. And, because the San Francisco terminus is just short of the downtown core, a local transit agency is planning to spend an additional $6.7 billion for the last 1.3 miles of track to the Salesforce Transit Center, recently completed at a “modest” price tag of $2.2 billion.
Existing California transit systems such as Bay Area Rapid Transit, Caltrain, and LA Metro are facing steep fiscal cliffs once federal COVID support runs out. The first two of these systems, formerly serving Bay Area programmers who now work from home, have suffered steep ridership declines that are only now being slowly reversed. Some commuters are reluctant to return to transit in California due to crime, open drug use, and squatters on the trains.
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