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Originally Posted by BrianSac
Construction of the intermodal, and restoration of the historic depot has NOT been funded, yet. Federal funds would be absolutely necessary to fully fund these structures.
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Actually, a pretty significant chunk of it has...
http://livinginurbansac.blogspot.com...y-station.html
(Incidentally, nme22, this is a pretty good blog to watch if you follow local urban development. Maybe you think things are so slow because you haven't been reading it.)
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Track re-alignment, pedestrian tunnels, and bridges to the new tracks have been funded. Construction should be fully complete by year end.
I'm not so worried about the intermodal in terms of future high-speed rail because Sacramento likely will never get high speed rail even if California proceeds with current plans.
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An intermodal depot doesn't really have anything to do with high-speed rail--in fact, planning for an intermodal depot started before HSR plans were begun! An intermodal depot is about mode transfer--train to light rail or bus or streetcar or automobile. There is room for a possible future HSR line in our current intermodal depot (assuming it doesn't get squashed by an arena, of course) but it is in no way dependent on the presene of HSR.
Even if HSR doesn't reach Sacramento, if it reaches San Francisco we will need better "regular-speed rail" connections to both SF and the point in the Valley where HSR heads up the peninsula. In fact, we are in dire need of better regional commuter rail whether or not HSR gets built at all--which all points toward expanding our current depot.