Santa Rosa, CA
Stop on the proposed 17,000-mile maglev network. Next stop: Vallejo, CA (34.0 mi).
About Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, United States, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California. Its population as of the 2020 census was 178,127. It is the largest city in California's Wine Country and Redwood Coast.
Source: Wikipedia summary (full article). Population and facts as published there.
Cost breakdown (proposal-scale estimates — see math)
| Item | Basis | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal construction | Mid-size city terminal ($1–2B range) | $1.5B |
| Land acquisition | Regional factor 1.5× on $200M base | $300M |
| Track: Santa Rosa → Vallejo | 34.0 mi × $500M/mi | $17.0B |
| Annual operations (share) | 2% of $1.5B terminal | $30M/yr |
| Stop total (excl. annual ops) | $18.8B |
Best terminal location (proposed)
The downtown Santa Rosa SMART station district. Downtown Santa Rosa's SMART station already anchors the North Bay's commuter rail, with the bus transit mall next door. Courthouse Square and the surrounding downtown blocks have redevelopment parcels near the tracks. The catchment is Sonoma County's 490,000+ residents plus wine-country tourism — a region with no fast link to the rest of the Bay Area.
Before / after
Aerial mock-up (illustrative, not an engineering rendering). Left: the proposed site today. Right: with the maglev terminal.
- Rohnert Park — college town on the SMART/101 corridor.
- Petaluma — historic river city on the southern approach.
- American Canyon — Napa County gateway city on the route to Vallejo.