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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by kelnos on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:03PM (#16173318)
A super-illegal drive isn't really useful for comparison. With moderate traffic you'd be lucky to average 60mph for the entire trip from SF to LA.

Regardless, I'm not talking about what's ideal or perfect; even if HSR could get me there in 2-3 hours, that's not a meaningful enough improvement over 3-3.75 hours to justify a $64B+ price tag in my book.

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by Retric on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:17PM (#16173427)
I am not sure how the price tag is relevant to you personally. If you build an effective network of High speed rail it ends up cheaper per trip which over time means the effective cost is ~0$.

I doubt they are going to succeed, but in other areas it has worked.

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