California High Spend Rail (HSR)

I have lived in California for the entirety of my life. While widely known for its beauty, California is much more locally known for its twisty, turny roads that traverse mountains, the pacific coast, hills, valleys, deserts, and forests. Surrounded by this environment has allowed me to develop a passion for travel and nature which has inspired me to work toward further developing and restructuring modern transportation methods such as trains, buses, bridges, and roadways. I believe that I can contribute to a future where faster travel allows people to spend more time interacting face-to-face and I plan to effect this change by pursuing a career in civil engineering and rallying for better environmental protection programs while educating myself

Transportation in the region has a long and successful past. However, public transportation has consistently taken a back seat to the personal automobile. There has been a strong core of persons who rely on public transportation to achieve mobility, and governmental

I’m very grateful to my two colleagues, Councilmembers Lisa Shaffer and Tony Kranz, for their vision in supporting this option and for their work as the SANDAG and NCTD representatives to make the plan viable. A few days before the vote they said they walked the approximately 2.5 mile loop first along Highway 101 and then back in the rail corridor to make sure their choice was the right

In this detailed report, essential actors such as the Transportation, Natural Resources, and California Environmental Protection Agency provide ongoing projects they are developing which collectively helps California attain an improved infrastructure plan. In recent events, Californians passed Measure M in 2016 by a 71.5% margin which will serve as sales tax to “improver freeway traffic flow/safety; repair potholes/sidewalks; repave local streets”(Metro). An unpopular decision that has affected commuters was the recent gas tax signed into effect by governor Jerry Brown on November 1st 2017. This increase in tax , formerly known as the Senate 1 Bill, increased gasoline prices by 12 cents to help fund the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of the California Highway Patrol. Over the course of a decade, this legislative package aims to collects $54 Billion to fix roads, freeways and bridges. In terms of distribution, $200,000,000 of the funds will go into road maintenance, $100,000,000 of the funds will go to the Active Transportation Program, and $400,000 of the funds will go to maintenance and rehabilitation (State of California

would be one of the largest construction projects of all time but it would create many jobs

It has positive, and negative sides to the project. I know that it will bring eighty five thousands jobs according to the video on their website, and a billion dollars worth of wages. It will bring economic stability to thousands and that part of the pipeline

     Perry’s answer is to shift the traffic away from metropolitan areas. If truck drivers can bypass San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas, the time to their destination would probably save them an entire day in travel. Freight rail services could veer away from San Antonio’s railroad yard, an institution bustling with activity in the wee hours of the morning. Also, commuter rail can solve environmental problems and help families keep in touch anywhere in the state without the over-burdening costs of driving (Perry).

specified in Proposition 1A. However, as time passes, the initial estimate is beginning to look like a low-ball. The construction process has taken longer than expected up until this point, and that has many direct and indirect costs associated. Some of these include increased number of work hours, job site utilities, and equipment rentals (Cox). Because of this increase in price, the state of California has tried to match federal funding with private investors. This, however, has been a slow and uncertain process. Another overestimation on the side of the CAHSR is in train times. Cox argues that the CHSRA’s anticipated average speeds are not being achieved anywhere in the world, even on the most advanced lines. He also states that “ the HSR would be unattractive to drivers in middle-distance automobile markets because little or no door-to-door time savings would be achieved and costly local connections would often be required (rental cars or taxicabs).” California lacks the extensive local transit infrastructure in the Central Valley that can be found in dense Asian and European areas; these smaller connecting systems are what make the high-speed rail so effective on other continents. Without them, it is a lengthier process for consumers to get to their end destination – they have to use both the public transit and their own form of transportation. This could have a negative effect on ridership because consumers will forego the hassle of changing transportation methods and

1.) What are the recommended percentages of each project that HVC should fund and the net present value of the total investment?

investing $20.5 million in the new system, which represented the most ambitious project in the

Unfortunately, California still has not started the construction of their high-speed rail project, but this shows, early in the development of the project, that high-speed rail will create a plethora of jobs. While there are a limited number of spots in the grant (Mumma), “But there will be thousands of jobs that we need to get people ready for,” Eager added” (Sheehan). Lee Ann Eager is the executive director of the Fresno County Economic Development Corp, and while being interviewed by Sheehan, she states that there will be many more job opportunities available once construction begins, and then once the system is up and running, there will be thousands of jobs that need to be created to keep the rail system up and running safely and efficiently. A maintenance station for example, could house around 1,500 permanent jobs, and also be a magnet to further development for high-speed rail, which will in turn create more jobs. Jobs for the construction of new power plants needed to power the high-speed rail system will also be available, as well as the jobs created to maintain and use the power plant. With the need for more environmentally friendly ways of creating electricity, more companies will need to be created to build and provide maintenance for these new plants, and also for research for better ways of utilizing the different renewable energies. All of these factors mean more and more

Public transportation is serious need of a massive overhaul in this nation. We are in desperate need to catch up to the European standard of public transportation in this country. In Europe, citizens can travel across cities, bodies of water, and even counties with their state of the art public transportation system. Europeans are not nearly as reliant on cars and oil as the United States is because they have the much more practical option of taking the transportation provided to them by the government to where ever they need to go. They have set a model that the United States needs to strive for and meet in the near future.

There are many benefits can be expected from this project such as it will make over the calculated commercial proficiencies. It will be proved as very important deal by investing in the project. The project can bring more money once it done. The project team is very efficient so they can surely get more benefits.

This analysis is done assuming the benefits accrued in the year 2050. The costs are evaluated from the year 2011 – the proposed time of starting the project, while the benefits are calculated from the year 2020 – the expected time of launching the project. The estimated streams of benefits and costs occurring each year between 2011 and 2050 were discounted to their present value and summarized to calculate the benefit cost ratio.

Musk Elon thought about a new transport between these cities because the government wanted to build a high-speed train line and that would cost $70 billion. Musk thought that he could make a faster and cheaper product to transit people. Musk innovation was called Super speedy Hyper loop, a sleek pod, would shoot passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles inside a low-pressure tube on a cushion of air, like an air-hockey puck. The tube would travel just under the speed of sound, 760mph (1,223 km/h). The trip that now costs 6 hour by car would take about 30 min on the Super speedy Hyper