It's like saying that you are planning for a budget were things will necessarily go very wrong because you, project owner, are 100% sure that you will be unable to deploy any organizational or design measure to avoid costs to escalate out of control.

This though mirrors the issues found at other smaller to mid size CSUs where the public transit has gotten cut significantly as enrollment is down.

CSUEB really should have coordinated this with AC transit
The old bus routes weren’t perfect as they were open to employees and students only along with using large cutaway buses rather than low floor city buses and you were not allowed to stand which created issues at the AM peak

I was hesitant about keeping my flight last weekend. Absolutely no way I would now especially given most airlines are relaxing their cancellation policies

Half a million a day on delta which is nothing.
Muni alone moves 510k. the entire Bay Area is over 1M riders a day in the 6 core counties (sorry northbay)

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Often you can also surge maintenance beforehand and then run with less spares for several weeks before resuming normal maintenance.
The TGV network tends to do most trainset maintenance Monday-Thursday so Friday-Sunday they can have more service/longer sets

They should be running their full service. The only extra cars we got are the 14 comets which are split between surfliner and San Joaquin for axle counts.
Even if we can only use 10 to make 2 5 car trains that would add 320 seats between LA and the bay

Given the minor cost central coast layover facility should just have all 3 storage tracks, inspection track and wash track with wash equipment built from the start.
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Goleta Layver continues to be delayed, they had to move the location a while back and its not advanced significantly
Ortega siding is a small siding north Carpinteria which replaced the plans to double track though town
Finally a bridge west of Lompoc crossing Santa Ynez River

While CA spends more in total, there's no plan more than 3 years out. And Utah spends 10x more per area served by transit, as most of the state lives in the Wasatch Front. Plus, money goes farther in a 5-year investment framework than with CA's competitive grants. bsky.app/profile/cale...

Regional services I would not even attempt to name and while I’m assuming cross platform transfer will be quite common I don’t see why that present an issue.
Take the direct Pacific Surfliner between LA and SD or take Coaster to Metrolink transferring at Oceanside

No better in my book.

Timetables given the intertwined nature probably would be changed annually or bi annually. Given the likely heavy use of digital signage I don’t see it as much of an issue.
You’d also just use a lot of general signage based on the state or regional branding

Gold Runner sounds like a generic roller coaster. There’s hundreds of other names that would have been better

I think it works just fine have specific service patterns named. What I don’t like is having a half dozen different service patterns under a single name
I’m also overlaying names to routes the states already identified in the SRP.

Amtrak didn’t. The JPA who manages the service did
Golden Gate is better than Delta Daylight. I just didn’t think to mix ATSF and SP names

Coast Daylight (LA-Oak tri hourly)
Coast Limited (SLO-Oak hourly)
Coast Owl (LA-Sac & SD-Bay sleeper 1x each)
Pacific Surf Daylight(SD-Goleta 2x hourly)
Pacific Surf Limited (SD-SLO hourly)
Imperial Daylight ( Coachella hourly)