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For $68 billion, you could fly everybody in San Francisco to Los Angeles, and everybody in Los Angeles to San Francisco, and back again, about forty times. And
by hugh4 11y ago
For $68 billion, you could fly everybody in San Francisco to Los Angeles, and everybody in Los Angeles to San Francisco, and back again, about forty times. And that's before it starts going over budget.
But of course, the line doesn't go from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It goes from Burbank to Merced, on the good-governance principle that if you build something completely freaking useless, then somebody might find another hundred billion dollars to turn it into something useful at some point in the indeterminate future.
- apsec112 11y agoThe $68 billion figure includes the full length of the line from downtown LA to downtown SF. The segment from Burbank to Merced is just the first one to be built. There are already tracks (albeit not high speed ones) from Burbank to LA and from Merced to Oakland, so when that section finishes you'd still have a one seat ride except for the last five miles crossing San Francisco Bay (for which you'd have to transfer to BART).
- chambo622 11y agoThat's a really eye-opening comparison
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