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High-Speed Rail Costs and Presentation

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HSR Construction Costs Database: https://transitcosts.com/high-speed-rail/

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- The Asian tendency to build on viaduct where the line is not in tunnel leads to high costs. Likewise, the use of shallow grades and low superelevation for mixed lines or even for some dedicated lines (the Shinkansen, without any track sharing, hews to 1.5% grads) raises construction costs.

- Netting out tunnels is still useful when trying to figure out itemized costs and cost control that is not about what to build, for example about labor or procurement. It is also useful when comparing lines in the mountainous terrain of Austria, Japan, Korea, and Switzerland to the easier North European Plain. But at some point, it is necessary to treat the tunnel percentage as endogenous to the planning system. The viaduct percentage, moreover, is absolutely endogenous.

- France in this context does well by keeping lines at grade as much as possible. The only country with less tunneling than France is Morocco, which builds its urban and high-speed trains as if it were France, and, thanks to France’s extensive presence in the Maghreb, French contractors are intimately familiar with the local situation and build cheaply. France and Germany have similar unit costs, but Germany tunnels a lot more, less because of the terrain and more because of either politics (that is, the Erfurt detour for Berlin-Munich, forcing the line to go through thicker mountains) or a misguided attempt at building mixed lines in the 1980s and 90s.

- The United States’ high projected budgets for proposed lines that never go anywhere thanks to their extreme costs come from overbuilding more than high unit prices. For example, in Baltimore, a two-track tunnel project designed for exclusive electric passenger train usage turned into a four-track tunnel with enough room for double-stacked freight with mechanical ventilation for diesel locomotives. The scope creep raised the projected budget from $750 million in the late 2000s to $4 billion in the mid-2010s.

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North Atlantic Rail

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North Atlantic Rail Proposal backed by 23 members of Congress

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A total of 23 members of Congress support the North Atlantic Rail plan for a new network of high speed and high-performance intercity and regional rail service, connecting smaller cities throughout all six New England states and New York.

The $105-billion plan includes a new 100-minute rail service from Boston to New York via Providence, Hartford, New Haven and Long Island. North Atlantic Rail’s vision is to drive jobs and economic opportunity throughout the region with a 21st century rail-enabled growth strategy, taking on climate change with a more sustainable, resilient, efficient rail network, and ensuring the region gets its fair share of federal infrastructure investment.

In a letter to T&I Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4) and Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO-6), the 23 members wrote: “The North Atlantic Rail Network will be the nation’s first integrated high-speed, high-performance and regional rail network, serving the seven-state New York/New England region. It can serve as a prototype for new 21st century rail networks in the nation’s other megaregions.’’

Members signing the letter include:

Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA-1), Ways and Means Committee chair
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY-12), Oversight Committee chair
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA-2), Rules Committee chair
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA-5), Assistant Speaker
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5)
Rep. John Larson (D-CT-1)
Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI-2)
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA-8)
Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT, at large)
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT-4)
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1)
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI-1)
Rep. William Keating (D-MA-9)
Rep. Annie Kuster (D-NH-2)
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY-6)
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA-6)
Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY-4)
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY-3)
Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH-1)
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7)
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA-3)
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4)
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15)
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Although they can spend months blathering on and on and on about Dr. Seuss, it looks like not a single Republican can be bothered to support modern, efficient, clean infrastructure in the most densely populated part of the United States. Shame!
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You didn't really think a R would sign on to this did you? Those people are gone.
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North Atlantic Rail Proposal backed by 23 members of Congress
It takes 218 votes for the bill to pass in the House, do they have another 195 votes?
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That plan is dumb. Fix the speed and capacity restrictions on the NEC for 1/10th the cost or less.
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That plan is dumb. Fix the speed and capacity restrictions on the NEC for 1/10th the cost or less.
1/10th the cost or less?

That's a good one.
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Front Range Passenger Rail District bill advances through House

By Shelby Filangi
June 3, 2021

"DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) -- Thursday, the House passed Senate Bill 21-238, allowing the Create Front Range Passenger Rail District to move forward through legislation.

The bill passed by a vote of 40-24. The Senate will now consider House amendments made to the bill.

In April, SB238 cleared the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee in a vote of 6-1.

While the bill doesn't create a state-length railway, it seeks to establish a Front Range Passenger Rail District, which would lay the groundwork for the development of a passenger rail..."

https://krdo.com/news/2021/06/03/fro...through-house/
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From Progressive Railroading, June 14, 2021-

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APTA issues guide for making ROI case for passenger rail

At its 2021 virtual rail conference held last week, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) released “Assessing the Business Case ROI for Intercity Passenger Rail Corridor Investment: Guide for Decision Makers,” a new high-performance rail return-on-investment report.

The report provides a consistent methodology to quantify the economic and social benefits of passenger-rail corridor investments, APTA officials said in a press release.

The guide, and associated methodology and toolkit, are intended to provide both decision-making support and to strengthen public and stakeholder understanding of the merits of developing high speed and intercity passenger-rail projects.
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Preferred route emerges for high-speed rail line from Atlanta to Charlotte

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Op-ed: High-speed rail is a win-win for America
August 23, 2021
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Across the country, overcrowded highways are bottling up our cities and choking economic life. At the same time, oil-fueled cars and planes are pumping masses of carbon and toxic pollution into the atmosphere, polluting vulnerable communities and accelerating global warming.

As three former secretaries of transportation, we believe that high-speed rail is the single most effective way to move America’s transportation system into the 21st century. A robust network of high-speed rail corridors with high-performance connections is the most powerful strategy to dramatically reduce climate pollution while reducing traffic congestion and improving intercity travel.

The interstate highway system, which began decades ago as a fast and efficient means of travel, is now fueling climate disaster and undermining our ability to compete at home and abroad. Congestion cost our economy $179 billion in 2017, according to the Texas A&M University Transportation Institute’s 2019 Urban Mobility Report. Highway congestion is expected to cost us $237 billion in 2025. Americans waste 105 million weeks per year in their cars, and enough fuel to load 58 supertankers to the brim.

More : https://www.chicagotribune.com/opini...hd4-story.html
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It’s time for the Northeast Corridor to lead the ‘second great railroad revolution’
Augt 26, 2021
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As former bipartisan governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, we fully support President Joe Biden’s ambition to “spark the second great railroad revolution.” The acute need for a modern transportation infrastructure in the United States capable of meeting the challenges of climate change and congestion is no better exemplified than in the Northeast Corridor — a region we know well. The corridor’s population is projected to grow by more than 12 million residents by 2040, yet the region is already straining under antiquated transportation systems only set to become worse without visionary change.

We’re not alone. In a recent op-ed, three former bipartisan U.S. secretaries of transportation wrote that “high-speed rail is the single most effective way to move America’s transportation system into the 21st century” and that it “is the most powerful strategy to dramatically reduce climate pollution while reducing traffic congestion and improving intercity travel.”

President Biden and his leadership team at the Department of Transportation have already hit the ground running by completing the federal review of previously stalled rail projects. Congressional committee chairs Tom Carper, Maria Cantwell, and Peter DeFazio are prioritizing investment in rail including $66 billion in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill. DOT is also working to create a passenger rail trust fund, in line with what’s already enjoyed by other transportation modes like highways and airports.

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With a series of critical deadlines facing Congress this month, the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure took the lead with the transportation section of the Democrat’s budget reconciliation bill dropping earlier today. The outline includes $10 billion for high-speed rail, $150 million for credit risk premium assistance under the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program, $10 billion for transit and housing, and $4 billion to reduce surface transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.
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Better than nothing no doubt, but really should have anothet zero on the end. I'm thinking we may have to wait for Seth Moulton to have the balls to collect support for a standalone HSR development bill. Not sure he has the required sway this early in his career. I hope he runs for president in this decade, he'd get my vote.
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Old & New! Amtrak High Speed Acela II 160 MPH Test Train Action @ Princeton Junction (12/19/22)

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Construction of Brightline bullet train from SoCal to Vegas set to begin

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- Brightline, reportedly the only private rail company in the country, is on track to connect Las Vegas to Los Angeles with a new 218-mile rail system. On Feb. 23, the company announced it had reached an agreement to work with a coalition of major labor unions. --- “As the most shovel-ready high-speed rail project in the United States, we are one step closer to leveling the playing field against transit and infrastructure projects around the world, and we are proud to be using America's most skilled workers to get there,” Mike Reininger, CEO of Brightline Holdings, said in a statement.

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How/when did Brightline acquire the property required to build their private, for-profit railroad?
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Most of it is the Caltrans easement. The negotiations go back quite a while to the DesertXpress days even though the current alignment has an abundance of median running that was previously EIS'd to be either to north or south side of I-15.
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A KTLA Channel 5 story on this included an interview with the city manager of Rancho Cucamonga who said that Brightline West was hoping to get half the $10 billion cost of the project from the 2021 federal infrastructure bill. That seems like a big ask considering all the other competing priorities for that money.

And according to the RC city manager, the Brightline West service will end not in Victorville, but at the Metrolink Station in RC. I’m not clear on how that is going to happen. The extra segment from Victorville to RC is not a trivial increase in scope. Getting over the Cajon Pass and through the most intensively developed portion Inland Empire is bound to be at least as difficult and costly as the relatively straight stretch from Victorville to Las Vegas down the median of I-15.
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