Double-tracking and electrifying Southern California commuter rail?

electricron wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 12:57 pm

lensovet wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 9:22 pm According to the presentation, the speeds planned on this corridor would not exceed those allowed for grade crossings. At the end of the day, this is just a measure to reduce costs and pacify the communities along the route, who seem to prefer reduced safety in return for…being against "displacement"?

True. Very few people love being displaced from their homes and business properties.
Would you?

If it meant that my kids are less likely to be run over by a train or my grandparents are more likely to have the ambulance arrive in time to save their life? Probably.

It of course is going to be a big mistake not doubling all the trackage. Look at Cal Train becoming 2 mains able to run 15 minute headways with their 2 main tracks. There is just no way a RR can be run with those headways without all tracks 2 main tracks.