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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by landryraccoon on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:12PM (#18624547)
Your plan has never been done before. It might completely fail for risks you and everyone else has never considered.

For all of rail's faults, we are certain it is possible. It's been done many times before. Maybe it can be done cheaper or more efficiently but there is no question that if we build it it will actually work.

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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by eloff on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:32PM (#18624644)
Ok I'm sure it's a horrible plan. But I'm also sure if you think a little out of the box you could mop the floor with this rail project. Being too risk averse is also a risk, it's a risk of settling when you could have had better.
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