We looked at all those options, and what we decided was that for the immediate needs for valley rail and some of the projects that we have, we thought that hydrogen is the best solution for those.
We did an analysis of the state-supported intercity passenger rail corridors - San Joaquin, Capital Corridor, and the Surfliner - and the cost to electrify those corridors alone was $7 billion.
Constructing catenary under traffic conditions on someone else's railroad... creates a lot of hurdles... electrification is the gold standard, but there are a lot of obstacles.
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