Tōkaidō Shinkansen was operational in just 5 years. That's the 320 mile line between Tokyo and Osaka. The only reason this is fantasy talk is because of misma

Tōkaidō Shinkansen was operational in just 5 years. That's the 320 mile line between Tokyo and Osaka. The only reason this is fantasy talk is because of mismanagement of funds and resources. It didn't used to take 3 years to upgrade a 3 mile stretch of freeway. If it did, our interstate infrastructure would have never been built.