• cybersin
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    22 days ago

    the California government didn’t give him money for that

    Right, but Las Vegas did and still is. It’s more about how so many people in power were duped into believing it was ever a reasonable method of transportation. It would be dishonest to call it anything other than a publicity stunt / tourist attraction for SV tech bros.

    I mean it’s the first system of its kind in the country and it’s being built in a state full of NIMBYs

    Acquisitions through eminent domain have been used for far more nefarious purposes in the past.

    the ticket cost will be 100 dollars from San Francisco to LA

    I would be pleasantly surprised if that comes to be reality, though the cost of the project keeps rising and business school drop outs are going to demand costs be recouped through higher ticket prices.