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Mundane-Ad-6874 t1_jbzf33u wrote

Reply to comment by SG4LPilgrim in France to Invest €100 Billion in Railway Infrastructure by Winstonoceaniasmith

Especially since building railways is pretty easy in most of the country. US has the big 3: vacant flat land. Shit we could probably bang it out in a weekend. However bailouts are cooler according to the top 1%

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SG4LPilgrim t1_jbzis14 wrote

My dream is a politician comes up and says “Yo we’re doing an interstate rail system” and just opens fire about having more jobs easily accessible to people, the trillions of dollars that will be injected into the economy paying construction workers and journeyman, and how states will directly benefit from boosted tourism on the first guy that tries to talk against it.

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Mundane-Ad-6874 t1_jbzmmu2 wrote

Just before 08 crash. My state has a fund for a train to the ski areas from the airport. It would have made our tourism boom. The $6-7B we had for the project disappeared and the plans abandoned.

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munchi333 t1_jbztuv9 wrote

Building railways in the US Is not easy lol. Just take a look at California high speed rail.

Eminent domain is extremely expensive and time consuming.

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Mundane-Ad-6874 t1_jbztzye wrote

“Most of the country is vacant flat land.” Most of the country isn’t California.

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munchi333 t1_jbzum7g wrote

Most of the locations for California high speed rail is “vacant flat land”

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Mundane-Ad-6874 t1_jbzv7p5 wrote

Californias average home cost is almost $700,000. It’s going from San Diego to San Francisco……. To extremely densely populated cities. That’s Over double the national average for a home. Now the spaces in between big cities in the prairie are extremely cheap.

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Mundane-Ad-6874 t1_jc2j4nz wrote

Perhaps, however It’s also so darn expensive because they need to build bridges and under/over passes over every road and highway through the city. I bet if there’s a budget breakdown, that’s 80%+ of the budget.

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SatanLifeProTips t1_jc081bd wrote

California needs to take a lesson from China and tell the NIMBY’s to fuck off. Just plough through and make it happen.

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