>>1567817Forget ticket prices, when you are planning transit between two trillion dollar GDP cities you have to think in macroeconomic terms. It's really expensive in terms of money and energy to move people by air compared to rail, and people will without a doubt use an HSR line ending in SF financial. You are correct that fares should undercut airlines, if the State isn't retarded enough to attempt profitability. I can already picture the headlines "train bad big money loser!".
I truly don't give a fuck about the central valley, I'm just positive that an LA-SF HSR would generate multiple times its cost in GDP growth.
>Transbay has more than 100,000 jobs within a half-mile radius (more than every other station in the system combined). The concentration of jobs near San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center cannot be understated. This station absolutely must be served by each and every train, and it would be highly counter-productive to terminate any train at 4th and King. 