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Re:Questions by starpilot on Sunday September 30, 2018 @07:11PM (#18108988)
China built their national high speed rail in remarkable time. Like less time to cover their entire country, than it will take California to build one high speed rail line. The difference seems to be that autocracy gets shit done.
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Re:Questions by ams6110 on Sunday September 30, 2018 @10:50PM (#18109699)
Sure, they didn't have to worry about property rights, environmental impact studies, etc. They just did it.

We built the first interstate highways pretty quickly too, and part of why is we just plotted a line and set the bulldozers to work. Nobody worried about habitat destruction, erosion, endangered species, etc.

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