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California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete route from San Francisco to Los Angeles (www.kcra.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To put this into perspective, China's high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.

This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"You can use private sector partners when you are in a segment where it's likely to be profitable," he said. "I think that's hard to do in the Central Valley, but more likely in the Bay Area and Los Angeles regions."

God damn America.

I would still go with it, it is the first time America is trying to do HSR, $100b is nothing (America spends $800b annually on military)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

$100b is nothing

Its a fuckton of money. Its over five times the GDP of the country of Georgia. I wouldn't even be arguing "HSR isn't worth it". I'd be arguing we need a fucking HSR Joseph Stalin to kill all the motherfuckers who have been involved in the project to date, start over, and do it right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

yea but that's not happening in the shithole that is the US. What I meant is that they should stop caring this much about the money aspect and look at whether the progress is good. $100b is a lot for normal people and smaller countries but not much for a (falling off) superpower, and it's spread out over many years.

The 2008 bailout for instance was like $29000b

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The 2008 bailout for instance was like $29000b

A one time bailout of the national economy that included a bunch of HSR funding from coast to coast.