>Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever. It actually is. Japan's new maglev shinkansen line is stalling because they can't ge

>Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever. It actually is. Japan's new maglev shinkansen line is stalling because they can't get land rights to lay rail through.[1] An even more blasphemous example is California's high speed rail project which never accomplishes anything, but I'm pretty sure that also suffers from a severe case of legalized money laundering. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen#Shizuoka_Prefecture_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen#Shiz...