While Metro has released plenty of information on their ambitious plans to redesign the rail hub and its surrounding parcels with a mix of developments, retail, and pedestrian-friendly amenities, the agency’s been coy about the bullet train stop. How this will affect Union Station is still unclear. A negative could be packed platforms should the train exceed ridership expectations when it opens in the next decade. Financially, smaller stations mean cheaper stations and less real estate purchasing. The design change has both pluses and negatives. With the refuge tracks will be cut by 600 feet, meaning the stations will be about 1,200 feet shorter than before. The shorter trains-which will consist of about 10 train cars hitched together, instead of the previously proposed 20-will also mean shorter “refuge” tracks that are required for emergencies.
Trains will be shorter than anticipated and platforms will be proportionately reduced, from 1,410 feet to 800 feet. The board recently announced a redesign to the future stations, including the stop that will be built at our very own Union Station.
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority will likely next build out the northern stretch-to Silicon Valley and San Francisco-but its narrowing in on how to get to Los Angeles and what that route will look like.
You wouldn’t know it by the scant media coverage, but construction of the state’s bullet train is in full swing around Fresno and the Central Valley.
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