To put this into perspective, China's high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.
This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.
Its a fuckton of money. Its over five times the GDP of the country of Georgia. I wouldn't even be arguing "HSR isn't worth it". I'd be arguing we need a fucking HSR Joseph Stalin to kill all the motherfuckers who have been involved in the project to date, start over, and do it right.
yea but that's not happening in the shithole that is the US. What I meant is that they should stop caring this much about the money aspect and look at whether the progress is good. $100b is a lot for normal people and smaller countries but not much for a (falling off) superpower, and it's spread out over many years.
The 2008 bailout for instance was like $29000b
A one time bailout of the national economy that included a bunch of HSR funding from coast to coast.