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.
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I have no idea what ACE or Merced is, or what Kanye has to do with it
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.
I am not American so still barely understand.
Is a train? Train go fast A to B. Train maybe go C. C not happen?
Yes, ACE offers passenger commuter service between two regions of California that have a mountain range between them, so while it looks like a trivial trip on a flat map, it’s actually a long and annoying commute by car, and lots and lots of people do that commute. It was supposed to come to a city named Merced in 2026, but they delayed that in order to tie it into the California High Speed Rail station opening to the public there in 2030. The meme is because they initially announced that ACE service would open in Merced in 2025, then 2026, then 2030.
Ahhh that’s better for an outsider to understand haha. Oh man that sucks. Does that mean that eventually it’ll be better because of the high speed rail? or is it just bad all round?
Yeah, it will eventually be better. If they went ahead and started service now, then you’d have to have a stupid system of moving people from one transit station to another, which kinda defeats the point. It’s absolutely better to just give folks the ability to step off one train and onto another. It’s an investment in time that will eventually pay dividends.