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Hearing about an Italian SWAT team for rail development just makes me think: "hire them." I wonder if it would be cheaper to just hire all of the talent, and t
by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
Hearing about an Italian SWAT team for rail development just makes me think: "hire them."
I wonder if it would be cheaper to just hire all of the talent, and then just buy Italian rail components if they are available and work. That is essentially what the tech industry in the US does now anyway.
I guess certain "Buy American" protections get in the way of that, for good and bad reasons; but it's annoying that one solution is basically touching the third rail (sorry couldn't resist the train joke) in the country. Hire or import talent from abroad and learn from them, America's whole industrial history is basically a loop of that over time.
- bombcar 4y agoCalifornia HSR basically did that, and the (French?) company left in a huff after a few years saying the working conditions were untenable. Much of our existing light rail rolling stock is European companies anyway - they make a deal to build a factory in the US to get the bid, usually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_S700_and_S70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_S700_and_S70