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And San Francisco is struggling to add 1 mile of underground track. The project is postponed (again) to open in 2022.
by justinzollars 7y ago
And San Francisco is struggling to add 1 mile of underground track. The project is postponed (again) to open in 2022.
- OrgNet 7y agothey are also struggling to build enough homes for everyone, aren't they?
- StreamBright 7y agoOnly, if you classify NIMBY struggling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY
- OrgNet 7y agoI do...
- martinald 7y agoAdd to that estimates of second avenue subway phase 2 coming in at $10bn for 2miles of track. Not sustainable.
- cabaalis 7y agoBe careful comparing a system which can simply take the land and labor it wants to one in which people have rights.
- arghwhat 7y agoYes, such a land compares poorly to China. /s
- mikepurvis 7y agoLand and labour get taken from plenty of Americans too— it's just usually for the benefit of wealthy private corporations rather than to advance a public good such as dignified, quality, low carbon mass transportation. https://money.cnn.com/2005/06/23/news/fortune500/retail_eminentdomain/ https://money.cnn.com/2005/06/23/news/fortune500/retail_emin... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/prisoner-speak-out-american-slave-labor-strike https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/prison...
- scarejunba 7y agoThe government has had the ROW for ages on this. It isn't land acquisition. They just keep botching it (like using the wrong steel). Be careful making excuses that don't apply.
- toephu2 7y agoNot quite true, in China the government usually tries to compensate you fairly for your house and cannot "force" you to leave (although I'm sure it happens). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/01/chinese-highway-house-demolished https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/01/chinese-highwa...
- bpicolo 7y ago> All land in China is state-owned, and residents are typically offered a fraction of their home's original value in compensation.
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- zachguo 7y agoThis is utterly false. They are usually compensated 3 times the market value. Simply ask common people in China, everybody wants their houses to be torn down by the government. Sometimes the government cannot afford it, that's why you may see a block of hutong or city-village in a fancy CBD.
- headsupftw 7y agoPlease go to China and talk to people with no rights but lots and lots of dough because their land/houses got confiscated by the commies in order to build high rises, freeways, high-speed train tracks or whatever the Nazi government has conjured up. They are literally the envy of the young generation because they no longer have to work (that IMHO is indeed a problem). But alas they don't have rights whereas homeless people in San Francisco can defecate freely and indulge themselves in needles basking in the democratic sun. Make no mistake I'm a staunch supporter of democracy and freedom and despise the fact that China is lacking in both probably as much as you do. But please get your facts straight and refrain from using your imagination to comment on a country you most likely have never been to.
- Ozumandias 7y agoDespite what the rest of the US may think, San Francisco is not a centrally planned Communist city. You can't just take land.
- aoeusnth1 7y agoDoesn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain_in_the_United_S... apply?