There is system a customization issue, but you are saying at least that type of train has been built before . There is one set that i know of that is used on the east coast. It is not something that is common, that is available, and that is another thing that were trying to make sure that we dont wind up with only one manufacturer, that with provide the vehicle. Right. There is still a level of customization required even at 25, because i know that is one of the issues that caltrain had with going to 50, the costs that there are not as Many Companies that build. That is one issue. The second issue, i still dont understand why if you are going to buy 25, are you going to leave the platforms asis, until the eir is done . We would leave the the current eir does not contain anything for raising the platforms. Right, so if we get the 25 platform trains, the stations would all stay the same. How would passengers board 25 trains . A set of steps. What would make going to 50 more challenging i
Perspective it felt like there was procastination until we realized that agencies would be going out for vehicle procurement. Were actually hitting a crux at this point, where we have to make a decision on platform compatibilities. That we cant just have kind of parallel conversations happening in terms of what is best for each agency . And then rfps go out and we realized that we have procured two different types of vehicles that doesnt allow for the greatest flexibility moving into the future. Im not saying its not possible for us to move down that pathway for us to have two different types of vehicles. And there are clearly ways to make that work in the three stations that we have identified that both highspeed rail and caltrain would be stopping at, millbrae and san jose and San Francisco. But i think there is certainly a lot of different factors that will make this a more challenging system into the longterm, while more affordable in the shortterm for both for at least caltrain. I
So you kind of brought up a number of different concepts there is system a customization issue, but you are saying at least that type of train has been built before . There is one set that i know of that is used on the east coast. It is not something that is common, that is available, and that is another thing that were trying to make sure that we dont wind up with only one manufacturer, that with provide the vehicle. Right. There is still a level of customization required even at 25, because i know that is one of the issues that caltrain had with going to 50, the costs that there are not as Many Companies that build. That is one issue. The second issue, i still dont understand why if you are going to buy 25, are you going to leave the platforms asis, until the eir is done . We would leave the the current eir does not contain anything for raising the platforms. Right, so if we get the 25 platform trains, the stations would all stay the same. How would passengers board 25 trains . A set
There is system a customization issue, but you are saying at least that type of train has been built before . There is one set that i know of that is used on the east coast. It is not something that is common, that is available, and that is another thing that were trying to make sure that we dont wind up with only one manufacturer, that with provide the vehicle. Right. There is still a level of customization required even at 25, because i know that is one of the issues that caltrain had with going to 50, the costs that there are not as Many Companies that build. That is one issue. The second issue, i still dont understand why if you are going to buy 25, are you going to leave the platforms asis, until the eir is done . We would leave the the current eir does not contain anything for raising the platforms. Right, so if we get the 25 platform trains, the stations would all stay the same. How would passengers board 25 trains . A set of steps. What would make going to 50 more challenging i
Were familiar with the acronyms, but if you could decipher some of those on the slides. Uprr. What else is on the slide . Hsr is highspeed rail. Is that the only one . California Public Utilities commission is cpuc and americans with disabilities act, ada. A followup why the compatibility discussion is happening right now . Why is the no, it happening now . Why its only happening now . The conversation as i understand it until about four or five months ago was to have the differential heights and that is what mr. Dykes showed in the previous presentation as the plan put forward by the design of the new downtown transit center; which did show in the illustration that he had, that there were two dedicated platform phases. That were at a different height than what the four were for california highspeed rail. So that has been the initiation of the conversation over probably the last four or five months. There have been different discussions at other locations along the caltrain rightofway.