[bajabill]

Okay, I’ll play along. Let’s say I accept the possibility of the Chinese government providing the $$$ behind one or more of any potential bids to come. I still see some major obstacles to getting it done, mainly with the corridor they had previously proposed for the train route, not to mention the nightmares awaiting them in straightening and widening a very narrow and winding Transpeninsular Highway south of Ensenada. After that is done they would still have to finish and widen the alternate route around Ensenada with Blvd 2000 around the Tijuana area going to probably need a couple more lanes as well?

So in the spirit of keeping an open mind, what if instead they put the construction money into building east out of Colonet with the new highway connecting with Highway 3 and later Highway 5 heading north to cross at Mexicali? I think widening along that route would be much easier than Highway 1 and trucks carrying containers would have a lot less traffic to deal with.

The train could closely follow right next to the highway, taking advantage of the same highway construction work and then veer off to cross at Yuma, which I recall was an original place to cross from the 2008 project?

That would also place the tracks right next to Mexico’s existing rails coming up into Sonora from the mainland which I read they are trying to revive as well? That would allow Colonet to service much of the Mexican mainland.

Not saying that I believe this is going to happen but if indeed the Chinese are willing to fork out so much cash, I see this as a much better (and viable) way.