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It'll be more like 3 hours, and it will end up costing around $100 billion. It would be dramatically cheaper and faster to subsidize free plane tickets between
by gok 9y ago
It'll be more like 3 hours, and it will end up costing around $100 billion. It would be dramatically cheaper and faster to subsidize free plane tickets between LA and SF for the next 50 years.
HSR works well in places with high density and competent infrastructure construction strategies. California has neither.
- dx034 9y agoTrains have a much higher capacity. Most people currently drive the distance which leads to more accidents and a lot of lost time. $100bn is too expensive to make sense but I don't understand why it should cost that much. There are not that many tunnels needed, esp. if you start/end north of LA and south of SF. European rail projects are also expensive but still a fraction of the cost.