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> Done with muscle. And the lives of between 1,000 and 2,000 largely Chinese immigrants for the transcontinental railroad alone. Certainly more died during th
by secabeen 5y ago
> Done with muscle.
And the lives of between 1,000 and 2,000 largely Chinese immigrants for the transcontinental railroad alone. Certainly more died during the construction of the remainder of the US rail network. Construction projects in other countries were significantly more deadly.
- asdff 5y agoThat wasn't due to speed, that was due to a lack of safety regulations. Spain and China built out national high speed rail networks in timely fashions in recent years with pretty normal accident rates for modern construction. French companies even offered faster and cheaper proposals for california HSR, and we said 'no' because they were French and not in some Bakersfield politican's donor list.