Looking at the history of errors related to the California High Speed Rail project and how those might be applied to other aspirational high speed rail lines in other parts of The United States of America. I've done about 40 minutes of video on California High Speed Rail in the present. This video mostly looks at the history of the project and explores some ways the concept could have been approach differently that would have been more productive. This is the first part of a multi-part series on the Federal Railroad Administration's high speed rail corridors. This is the California Corridor, which is synonymous with California High Speed Rail at this point.
Regarding the subject of this video, YES I already know that due to stipulations in Prop 1A that the train has to run through certain Central Valley cities. The direct route between L.A. and S.F. is purely hypothetical and would not happen practically at this juncture. Same with the reordering of construction on the current plan.

0:00 Introduction
0:19 Origins
0:56 Intercity HSR Report Findings
3:04 Critique Of Those Findings
4:35 CAHSR Whole System EIR
5:11 2008 Business Plan And Prop 1A
5:43 Critique Of Prop 1A
8:11 Funding Problems
10:23 Hypothetical Scenarios
10:45 Build It In A Different Order
13:00 Direct Line LA to SF First
15:12 The Present Dilemma
15:40 Conclusion
15:52 Future Videos
16:20 Outro

1996 Intercity Commission High Speed Rail Report
https://transdef.org/HSR/Altamont_ass...

2005 California High Speed Rail Authority System EIR
https://hsr.ca.gov/programs/environme...

Topics:

California High Speed Rail
Cascadia Ultra High Speed Rail
Federal Railroad Administration High Speed Rail Corridors
The Case For High Speed Rail in the United States
pre-CAHSR studies
San Diego
Inland Empire
Antelope Valley
Central Valley
Pacheco Pass
Panoche Pass
Altamont Pass
CAHSR Phase 1
The Grapevine
Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Modesto
bay area
CAHSR Phase 2
California Proposition 1A
CAHSR Business Plan
Federal fundings
Cap and Trade
San Francisco
Anaheim
Gilroy
Burbank
San Jose
Sacramento
Bakersfield
Fresno