Let's build houses for people, not cars

Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by magduf on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:06PM (#20831422)

If it takes you literally "decades" to build a train line, when the US back in the mid-1800s built railroads across the continent by hand, then maybe you should just give up and admit your country is hopelessly broken. Other countries don't take that long to build a few train lines.

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by bscphil on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:55PM (#20835363)

I agree with you! But the estimated time to complete just one of the extensions is running into the late 20s or even 30s!

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by magduf on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:28AM (#20838349)

That's my point. It doesn't have to be that way. Other nations are able to build not just "extensions", but entire train lines, in much less time than that.

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