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Re:California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project... by dave5104 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:48PM (#19148912)
> (3) If it's built in one part of the state, it creates peer pressure for other parts of the state to build it. It looks bad to be the one part of the state that is blocking it.

Hah, do you live in the Bay Area? With the amount of NIMBYism, I don't think peer pressure would help with getting it built to connect the SF/SJ connections. It's why we do not have BART going for a full loop around the bay. Santa Clara county voted it down.

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Re:California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project... by masonic on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:19AM (#19151921) 

  Santa Clara county voted it down.
San Mateo and Marin counties already weren't participating anyway, so that circumnavigation dream was DOA.
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Re:California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project... by adrianmonk on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:11PM (#19149060)
Oh yeah, I used to live there and am well acquainted with the NIMBY craziness. I was approaching it more from the other side, which is that you need every weapon you can possibly get that will help twist their arms.
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