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Do you know how much California High Speed Rail is over budget? What if we could bring massive infrastructure projects down from the billions to the millions?

Do you know how much California High Speed Rail is over budget? What if we could bring massive infrastructure projects down from the billions to the millions? Wouldn't that be a great thing for all of society? What if we could build new power plants, connect all cities with HSR, rebuild all our old bridges, add thousands of new skyscrapers, and do it all under budget? Think about what steel did for society. Automated construction is the next highest order step function change. It'll be insanely good for society.

taeric 1y ago
It is not lack of knowing how to build rail that is keeping HSR over budget and never finished. It is lack of will. Largely driven from lack of direct need.
- bluGill 1y ago
  There is direct need but it isn't obvious until 5 years after it is done.
  - taeric 1y ago
    That is indirect, pretty much by definition. Directly, there are few if any jobs that are not getting done due to lack of HSR today. Indirectly, people project a ton of benefits to having HSR.
    - bluGill 1y ago
      The direct need is all the people dieing on the highways.
winrid 1y ago
What a joke. HSR is not over budget because of construction equipment. It's over budget because of bureaucracy and useless middlemen.
daedrdev 1y ago
CEQA has added a stupendous amount of cost to California's HSR.