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Re:The West Coast is beating the East Coast on transportation? by astura on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:49PM (#18808216)
Um... Its estimated that somewhere between 1,000-2,000 people died building the first transcontinental railroad. That wouldn't exactly be acceptable today.
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Re:The West Coast is beating the East Coast on transportation? by magduf on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:34AM (#18815824)
No, but we also have lots of mechanized equipment now that eliminates most of the danger and speeds up work enormously. There's really no excuse for construction taking as long as it does now.
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