Caltrain HSR Compatibility Blog

The passage of California Proposition 1A (2008) set in motion a complete reconstruction of the railroad between San Jose and San Francisco. This blog exists to discuss compatibility between HSR and Caltrain, integration issues, and the impact on adjoining communities.

21 October 2018

Thinking Big in Redwood City

The architecture of Amsterdam Bijlmer (photo by tataAnne ) could represent the future Redwood City station. In a seamless transportati...

27 September 2018

Growing Caltrain into an 8-Lane Freeway

Caltrain can and should become an eight-lane freeway. Not like an ugly concrete scar tearing loudly through the landscape, but in terms of t...

08 September 2018

Still Dithering on Level Boarding

EMU low door configuration Recent documents seeking regulatory relief from certain FRA requirements for Caltrain's new EMU fleet re...

25 August 2018

Over-Promising on Electrification

Numerous recent Caltrain materials include the following quantitative claims (see slide at right) about the service benefits of the electr...

11 August 2018

New SF Caltrain Terminus Opens at 0 tph

Zero trains per hour (tph) is the inaugural Caltrain service level at San Francisco's new Transit Center, which opened to the public tod...

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