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>maybe not at grade... I know I'm not from Cali or anything, but it's actually quite a bit worse than that. In California I'm almost positive it would require

>maybe not at grade... I know I'm not from Cali or anything, but it's actually quite a bit worse than that. In California I'm almost positive it would require some tunneling. And not the easy kind of tunneling that you might see in, say, western North Carolina, asheville area. No. I'm talking about the hard kind that has to keep globally significant fault lines and seismic activity in mind.

hinkley 8y ago
Well, there's a tendency when lambasting big infrastructure projects like this to compare one city's efforts to those done elsewhere, and if Japan can keep trains on tracks through an earthquake then you have to dig into the numbers for both and ask if they had the same problem. And if so, should hindsight from the earlier project have informed the plans for later one. There's also a tendency in big projects to be intentionally obtuse, come up with a number that the customers (tax payers) won't riot over, and then rely on sunk cost and other fallacies to let the project expand to its real size later on.