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The USA is riding on 100 years of the benefits of scale and economic investment. If the USA was investing $150B a year into building passenger rail, we would no
by lelandbatey 6mo ago
The USA is riding on 100 years of the benefits of scale and economic investment. If the USA was investing $150B a year into building passenger rail, we would not be paying $1B/mile for "new" and "trailblazing" rail projects. If we had to build much of the highway infra we built 75 years ago, but do it now, we'd be paying similar $1B/mile prices for the highways.
- xnx 6mo agoThe best thing about rail in the US is we'll have a lot of premium land for bike paths and AV lanes when the rail gets decommissioned.
- joenot443 6mo agoHere in Canada we're investing $60-120b on a rail to connect Toronto to Montreal. I hope your analysis is correct and subsequent passenger rails will be much cheaper!