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munchi333 t1_jbztuv9 wrote

Reply to comment by Mundane-Ad-6874 in France to Invest €100 Billion in Railway Infrastructure by Winstonoceaniasmith

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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