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As someone who lives in Seattle, the high speed we’d be getting is great. It would go from Vancouver BC down to Portland. My guess is that there would be an ask for high speed to connect the bay area to portland in the future.
Edit: I’m not sure we’d even need it since it’s pretty rural through the areas not high speed because there aren’t a lot of stops.
I’ve wanted that train route for decades now. PDX to BC in a few hours? Wonderful! If it had a stop within shouting distance of downtown in all three cities, stops within 10 mins of the airports (or even right at them) and a connection to the new line to Bellevue… Amazing.
That’s a great spine to build a regional network on. Start putting light rail into all of the stations, local trams, and if you’d be nice to us on the east side, a interurban line to Spokane that would leave during the day. Bam! Cascadia is in great shape.
Seems like still basically 0 high speed rail.
As someone who lives in Seattle, the high speed we’d be getting is great. It would go from Vancouver BC down to Portland. My guess is that there would be an ask for high speed to connect the bay area to portland in the future.
Edit: I’m not sure we’d even need it since it’s pretty rural through the areas not high speed because there aren’t a lot of stops.
I’ve wanted that train route for decades now. PDX to BC in a few hours? Wonderful! If it had a stop within shouting distance of downtown in all three cities, stops within 10 mins of the airports (or even right at them) and a connection to the new line to Bellevue… Amazing.
That’s a great spine to build a regional network on. Start putting light rail into all of the stations, local trams, and if you’d be nice to us on the east side, a interurban line to Spokane that would leave during the day. Bam! Cascadia is in great shape.
The hold up on that would probably be the mountains, there’s a lot of mountains.
Have we built roads through those mountains?
Nah, get to Vegas fast