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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: SPUR meeting on SF Transbay Terminal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.023012.3381@s1.gov>
- Keywords: CalTrain extension Transbay Terminal
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:30:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.185120.4554@ntmtv> adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
- >In article <1jr143INNh7l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu (Aaron Priven) writes:
- : I've written before that I think it makes more sense for Oakland to be
- : the rail hub of the Bay Area;
- >
- >It's going to be San Jose. That's where Amtrak will be moving over
- >the next several years. A state-of-the-art joint Amtrak/CalTrain
- >maintenance facility is going to be built near Lick (a couple miles
- >south of Tamien CalTrain station in San Jose). It is likely that
- >Amtrak will extend the Zephyr and San Joaquins to San Jose too.
-
- I'm sure that the Amtrak and CalTrain folx like all that land
- there, especially since the rebuilt I-880 will be eating up some of
- Amtrak's and SP's yard at West Oakland, but San Jose is _not_
- centrally located in the Bay Area. San Francisco and Oakland are the
- strongest candidates for centrality, with the winner probably being
- Oakland.
-
- Although the CZ can make it to San Jose without too much
- trouble, the San Joaquins have the problem of making a _big_ loop
- around the East Bay. That makes it quicker to take a bus from Stockton
- to San Jose than go the extended San Joaquin route. For that,
- passenger train service on UP's Altamont Line will have to be started.
- That runs: Fremont -- Pleasanton -- Livermore (yay!) -- Tracy --
- Stockton. Would a northbound San Joaquin be split at Stockton?
-
- There is also the interesting question of extending some San
- Joaquins to Sacramento from Stockton. Here again, would this be
- implemented by splitting a northbound San Joaquin at Stockton? Or
- would there be a second San Jose -- Sacramento train that goes San
- Jose -- Stockton -- Sacramento?
-
-
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
-