America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds::The Southern California-to-Las Vegas route makes total sense and involves no wishful thinking in order to be a resounding success.
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds::The Southern California-to-Las Vegas route makes total sense and involves no wishful thinking in order to be a resounding success.
They are building in a strange ass way, but it will connect two major cities when it opens, just not the two you listed. Those legs will come later.
Also, fuck cost overruns being an issue. The initial Japanese bullet trains cost 2x what they were projected to, and all people say about that 50 years later is “when can you build more?”
Same goes for highway cost overruns. No one makes a peep when shitty concrete costs way more than planned, but if a revolutionary transit system that’s climate friendly, cheap and helps the working class has issues? Hell no, the world is ending.
We need to spend the fucking money and get it done.
I don’t think the build is strange, personally. It’s really only strange if California is only made of San Francisco and LA, and it isn’t. The central valley cities would be major metros in any other state, and they currently have few to no options for travel that don’t involve a car.