Kanye is getting less and less excited as the ACE rail extension to Merced gets more and more delayed. I reckon they’re doing it like this to tie in to the HSR station, but come on, man.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hyper specific meme. ACE is the Altimont Corridor Express, it currently offers commuter service between the East Bay area/San Jose and Stockton/Sacramento. It’s currently being extended to Manteca/Lathrop/Modesto. Since it’s just reusing existing UPRR alignment, it’s going to be done hella fast (2025) and mostly just involves upgrades to the alignment and a little bit of new construction. That extension was originally supposed to include Merced. Then, early this year, UPRR gave them a bunch of shit and wanted environmental reviews or something, causing it to be delayed to 2026. Then, later this year, it came out that it’s not actually going to be available on Merced until 2030 when the interim service alignment of HSR between Merced-Bakersfield comes online. It’s likely because some jackass actually rubbed some braincells together and realized it’d be dumb as fuck to have people have to transfer between the HSR station and the ACE/San Joaquins stations, so they just tied them in together. Still, it’s frustrating that the service got delayed.