• @some_guy
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    204 months ago

    The new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes.

    But going electric is so woke. There can’t possibly be real-world benefits! /s

    Because the trains are now quieter both onboard and in adjacent neighborhoods, it also might mean that more people are willing to live near the tracks. “I think they’re going to enable more development around the stations,” Steve Heminger, who represents San Francisco on the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board that operates Caltrain, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

    A feel-good story all around.

    • @FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      14 months ago

      I love how somehow a rail line is too noisy for developments yet we see tons of developments next to highways and 6+lane roads