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Phase I, about 520 miles (840 km) long using high-speed rail through the Central Valley, will connect San Francisco to Los Angeles. In Phase 2, the route will be extended in the Central Valley north to Sacramento, and from east through the Inland Empire and then south to San Diego. The total system length will be about 800 miles (1,300 km) long ...
This Central Valley segment is 171 miles (275 km) long and thus spans 35% of the total San Francisco–Los Angeles route. The IOS is projected to commence revenue service as a self-contained high-speed rail system between 2030 and 2033, at a cost of $28–35 billion, and will replace current San Joaquins service south of Merced.
The Third and Townsend Depot was the main train station in the city of San Francisco for much of the first three quarters of the 20th century. The station at Third Street and Townsend Street served as the northern terminus for Southern Pacific's Peninsula Commute line between San Francisco and San Jose (forerunner of Caltrain) and long-distance trains between San Francisco and Los Angeles via ...
Parts of: San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties 160,300 Yes 68 4 29 — 6 SamTrans: Entire: San Mateo County Parts of: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties 33,200 30 — 1 — 2 Muni: Entire: San Francisco Parts of: Marin and San Mateo counties 400,300 42 5 16 — 10 VTA: Entire: Santa Clara County Parts of: San Mateo County ...
California’s entire high-speed rail route from Los Angeles to San Francisco has officially been environmentally cleared for construction after the High-Speed Rail Authority’s board of ...
A 1963 report to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors projected the inevitable decline of the Third and Townsend Depot once the planned San Mateo line of what would become BART was built: Preliminary plans for BART routes in San Francisco, including connections to Marin and the Peninsula (1960)
“This day is massively important,” said the rail board’s chairman after the vote.
In 1911, the Santa Fe tried to compete with Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) with overnight trains that included cars to and from San Diego, the Saint train to San Francisco and the Angel train to Los Angeles. [2] The Santa Fe route via San Bernardino and Barstow was longer than the SP route via Glendale and Lancaster and the San Francisco to Los ...