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It's pretty funny that we still talk about HSR in California as a hypothetical, over 10 years after it was approved. Obama wasn't even in office yet. There's no
by parshimers 8y ago
It's pretty funny that we still talk about HSR in California as a hypothetical, over 10 years after it was approved. Obama wasn't even in office yet. There's not a single piece of it you can ride, anywhere, despite the $9 billion it got approved for from day 1. The first transcontinental railroad only took 6 years to build, in the mid 1800's.
- partiallypro 8y agoThere are a number of problems that they didn't have in the 1800s, namely that there weren't so many holders of land along the route but there were also a lot fewer regulations, etc. Not to mention very cheap foreign laborers.