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Will that segment of CAHSR be able to run at full speed? The plans have changed so much that it's hard to find a good and up to date source, but my understanding was that to save money a good chunk of phase 1 isn't going to be running at "HSR" speeds. e.g. it'll be sharing track with freight trains, and some routes were made windy-er to save money (with the side effect of limiting speeds)

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It's supposed to run at 220mph, which is significantly faster than the project described here.

What parts are supposed to run at 220mph? I know for a fact that the Bay area segment won't[1], same for other areas like the LA metro

[1]: https://hsr.ca.gov/high-speed-rail-in-california/project-sec...

From Gilroy to Burbank, it will run at top speed to make up some lost time from the Bay area segment. FWIW the BA segment will run at 110mph.

I'm in the bay area and literally nothing they've designed around here is going 220mph unless they a going to be banking the tracks 40 degrees and doing a TON of ground breaking engineering around safety to run at 220 mph safely while sharing with Caltrain and other users.

> be sharing track with freight trains

That's a lie.

> windy-er to save money

The opposite: some segments are longer, more complex, and more expensive to gratify some NIMBYs and influential congressmen.

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