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Affordable like the high-speed rail project promised to CA voters over a decade ago? > When voters green-lit the project in 2008, they were promised a two-hour
by gnicholas 4y ago
Affordable like the high-speed rail project promised to CA voters over a decade ago?
> When voters green-lit the project in 2008, they were promised a two-hour and 40-minute ride from Los Angeles to San Francisco, with connections to Sacramento and San Diego at a cost of $45 billion. Since then the estimated price tag has more than doubled to $113 billion, and that’s for a pared-down version that does not include the Sacramento and San Diego stops.
from https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/30/california-budget-ends-high-speed-rail-standoff-sends-billions-to-other-projects/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/30/california-budget-end...
- jacquesm 4y agoThe inability to do large infrastructure projects has been noted many times, in a way we have regressed considerably from the mid 1800's to today in that respect. But that doesn't mean that the solutions proposed aren't valid, just that too many parties are running inference to succeed (Elon Musk one of them, by the way).
- gnicholas 4y agoElon is opposed to public transit? I assumed that his Boring Company would stand to benefit greatly from underground rail.
- jacquesm 4y ago> https://twitter.com/humantransit/status/941386665519595521 https://twitter.com/humantransit/status/941386665519595521 The only thing the Boring Company has done is distract cities from going forward with the deployment of various forms of public transport. And then they didn't deliver... Elon doesn't want you to use public transport, he wants you to commute in a Tesla.