Um excuse me, California has been building high speed rail the last twenty years and it’s billions over budget. They haven’t finished one segment but it’s on its way.
OK I will defend the CA HSR. It's taking comically long (was approved in 2009, won't be done until like 2035) but it will actually get done; it's not total vaporware. The part through the Central Valley is nearly done and should be up and running soon IIRC.
My hunch is that California dems are just extremely reluctant they have to follow through on this, so they are trying almost every poison pill under the sun to try to get people to cancel it.
In about 5 years, they will be explicitly begging voters to make them stop.
Yeah a lot of the state representatives from LA or SF wanted to cancel this to focus on local transit in this areas. I think that's how we got this compromise where they only started construction in the Central Valley
"U.S. railroad companies chose to switch to diesel over electric locomotives because of diesel's much lower up-front costs, even though electric systems cost significantly less to operate and to maintain than diesel systems." :porky-happy:
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Um excuse me, California has been building high speed rail the last twenty years and it’s billions over budget. They haven’t finished one segment but it’s on its way.
OK I will defend the CA HSR. It's taking comically long (was approved in 2009, won't be done until like 2035) but it will actually get done; it's not total vaporware. The part through the Central Valley is nearly done and should be up and running soon IIRC.
My hunch is that California dems are just extremely reluctant they have to follow through on this, so they are trying almost every poison pill under the sun to try to get people to cancel it.
In about 5 years, they will be explicitly begging voters to make them stop.
Yeah a lot of the state representatives from LA or SF wanted to cancel this to focus on local transit in this areas. I think that's how we got this compromise where they only started construction in the Central Valley
Construction hasn't been going going for 10 years and most of the difficulty has been acquiring land.
Wait so their trains run on coal or something?
diesel engines
Wait really ? that's ridiculous lmao
"U.S. railroad companies chose to switch to diesel over electric locomotives because of diesel's much lower up-front costs, even though electric systems cost significantly less to operate and to maintain than diesel systems." :porky-happy:
It’s fucking baffling to me how capitalists are so bad at capitalism. Think ahead motherfuckers I’m begging