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If the US companies can't do it just hire Chinese or Japanese ones who have enormous experience to build the infrastructure way cheaper.
by xvilka 6y ago
If the US companies can't do it just hire Chinese or Japanese ones who have enormous experience to build the infrastructure way cheaper.
- FreakyT 6y agoExactly this -- plenty of other countries have figured out how to build rail systems without massive cost overruns.
- objektif 6y agoWell good ideas from capitalism does not apply to public projects did you not know?
- cycrutchfield 6y agoYeah, just bulldoze some houses and apartment blocks, so easy to build rail lines. Why didn’t anybody else try this?
- jcranmer 6y agoChina and Japan aren't exactly low-cost construction countries. Actually, they're among the highest-cost non-Anglosphere countries (which are perhaps best labeled "stratospheric-cost" countries). Instead, you want to look to places like Spain, Italy, Sweden, or South Korea as low-cost countries.
- TheMblabla 6y agoTheir costs are lower because their land aquisition costs are lower. The problem isn't the tech it's the regulations/property rights.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoThe expensive part is addressing all the local regulations and acquiring land. Human rights (and property rights) can be expensive.