Challenge to the $30 billion Sacramento to San Diego High Speed Rail

This page is currently under construction.

We are still trying to gather quality data on capital installation costs; routing; number of stations and stops; scheduled departures; passenger capability per day; annual expected revenues; and annual expected operational expenses.

This is a fairly new proposal for another taxpayer subsidized forever money hole. They are proposing to use either steel wheels on steel tracks or big MagLev trains.  Once we are happy that we have enough data we will make maps and comparison tables identical to what we did earlier for the earlier $12.6 billion high speed (125 mph) rail intended for travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles.   In the meantime, go to our LA to SF Intercity SkyTran pages to see basic data that challenges the travel time effectiveness, per trip costs, the huge capital costs and the huge annual operational costs associated with the folly of any surface transportation that attempts to utilize large, heavy vehicles to move large numbers of people together.

A SkyTran replacement would probably be 1/30th the capital installation cost of the high speed rail or the big MagLev.  SkyTran could also move many more people per day and the fares would be quite a bit lower.  Every SkyTran trip would be an express trip that only stops at your final destination.  Instead of perhaps 30 available station choices along the route, SkyTran could easily place 1,000 or more stations along the same route.  Since all stations are offline, no traveler would be inconvenienced by the necessity to stop at any of those intermediate stations.