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I believe we're seeing a first look at the Final State Rail Plan in these slides; it's officially due out soon.

There are major changes vs the draft!

Draft on the left, BART board slide on the right:
Draft diagram of Long-Term Regional Goals for Northern California rail. New routes are shown, in various line thicknesses for different frequencies. Most notable is a new Bay crossing for regional rail between San Francisco and Oakland, which gets a ton of service to Richmond. Integrated rural express buses are shown in eastern and northern California. High speed rail is shown between Gilroy and Madera as planned. Valley Link between Dublin Pleasanton and Stockton is shown. Source: https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/rail-mass-transportation/documents/california-state-rail-plan/20230309-casrp-public-dor-guidance.pdf More refined-looking map of long term regional rail goals, potentially matching the forthcoming final state rail plan. In contrast with the draft, this version selects Suisun-Fairfield instead of Vallejo for the Carquinez Strait Crossing, decreases HSR frequency between Madera and Gilroy and San Francisco from 15 to 30 minutes, drops display of "regional transit" between Union City and Redwood City via Dumbarton, drops ACE frequency from 30 minutes to every 4 hours, increases SR37 SMART frequency from 60 to 30 minutes, adds regional rail to Sacramento from Davis to Roseville and Natomas to Stockton, decreases San Joaquins from hourly to every two hours, and extends it from Stockton to San Jose, drops hourly Capitol Corridor trains from Oakland to San Jose in favor of running them all to Gilroy via San Francisco, drops many regional bus routes from the map, including 680, east Sierras, and Arcata to Alturas via Redding, and decreases rail frequency to Reno from hourly to every four hours. It also shortens Valley Link from Stockton to North Lathrop, drops an hourly Gilroy to Merced high speed rail run (sending all trains south to Madera instead, and corrects regional bus from Santa Cruz to go to San Jose instead of Gilroy. Source: https://bart.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1142634&GUID=A8F670E3-69EF-408E-BC1C-4238733EDAF3&Options=info|&Search=
November 20, 2024 at 8:44 PM