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The US isn't very good at building large infrastructure projects. Boats and planes have the unique advantage that you don't need a lot of infrastructure along t
by wongarsu 3y ago
The US isn't very good at building large infrastructure projects. Boats and planes have the unique advantage that you don't need a lot of infrastructure along their path of travel, unlike a high speed train.
Also this can be used as a replacement for a ferry. Note how two of their launch customers operate in the Caribbean, where travel between islands is a big deal.
- CTmystery 3y ago> The US isn't very good at building large infrastructure projects https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/finalmap.cfm https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/finalmap.cfm But, yes, that was a long time ago. Still, we could find the will again.
- vermilingua 3y agoThe US can't find the will to build housing, how is it going to find the will to build another continent-spanning railway?
- coffeebeqn 3y agoWe were the best once. The railroad was impressive as were many of the dams, power plants, etc. at some point things went horribly wrong though
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The railroad was impressive The utter boondoggle of corruption that went into that is pretty amazing, though.
- ews 3y agoThat was almost three-quarters of a century ago, the US is a very different, chaotic, and dysfunctional country (see: California High-Speed Train Fiasco). We can't build anything anymore.
- AYBABTME 3y agoBecause there's not enough of a crisis to justify it, yet.
- notho 3y ago[dead]