Fuck Elon Stank; CAHSR isn’t being built by private capital though. The funding is government bonds and spending bills, and it’s being directed by the CA High Speed Rail Authority, which is a government body under the California State Transportation Agency.
There’s a lot of reasons why CA HSR has been spinning its wheels, and Musk is not among them. The good news is that they’re making a lot more headway in terms of actually getting stuff built in the last couple of years. Reports of billion dollar bridges to nowhere are largely big carbon hit pieces that distort the reality of the situation. Source: fan of the project, so I follow it, and I live close enough to it that I see the progress.
While not directly responsible, Elon Musk proposed the Hyperloop, promising features that it could never possibly achieve, and redirected attention away from an actual solution to a gadgetbahn technology that would never work. Here’s an article from the time and here’s a more recent article about it. Part of the criticism is also on the fawning media that worshiped the very ground Elon walked on at that time.
Fuck Elon Stank; CAHSR isn’t being built by private capital though. The funding is government bonds and spending bills, and it’s being directed by the CA High Speed Rail Authority, which is a government body under the California State Transportation Agency.
There’s a lot of reasons why CA HSR has been spinning its wheels, and Musk is not among them. The good news is that they’re making a lot more headway in terms of actually getting stuff built in the last couple of years. Reports of billion dollar bridges to nowhere are largely big carbon hit pieces that distort the reality of the situation. Source: fan of the project, so I follow it, and I live close enough to it that I see the progress.
While not directly responsible, Elon Musk proposed the Hyperloop, promising features that it could never possibly achieve, and redirected attention away from an actual solution to a gadgetbahn technology that would never work. Here’s an article from the time and here’s a more recent article about it. Part of the criticism is also on the fawning media that worshiped the very ground Elon walked on at that time.