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Re:Officials: LA-SF high-speed rail cost will increase to $105B by ren_engineer on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:48PM (#30268101)
>The increases are partly due to commitments aimed at minimizing community disruption, such as distancing the train from the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in the Central Valley and tunneling tracks near the Burbank airport, project officials said

that's pretty much the difference right there. China would go straight through the neighborhood and force people to move. Plus they wouldn't take years to do potential environmental impact studies

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Re:Officials: LA-SF high-speed rail cost will increase to $105B by m463 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:40PM (#30268489)
Eminent domain in the US can remove stuff.

But I can't figure out how things actually work in china.

It seems they have some people fighting back - do a web search for "chinese nail house" and you'll see some interesting houses existing amidst huge infrastructure projects

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