How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
  • itappearsthat [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    15 days ago

    only way this project gets finished is if PLA invades then annexes the west coast

    also

    Building the nation’s first bullet train, which would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, was always going to be a formidable technical challenge, pushing through the steep mountains and treacherous seismic faults of Southern California with a series of long tunnels and towering viaducts.

    I can just imagine a rail engineer from literally any other nation reading this and laughing

    • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      Tunnels and viaducts? Unknown technology! If only some other mountainous nation on the Pacific rim had built an extensive bullet train network decades ago that we could use as a template.