Re:Work, Work, Work – So a Few Can Be Rich
by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:39PM
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If the California High Speed Rail project was ever going to succeed - it would've went from Los Angeles to San Diego (118 miles almost entirely densely populated).
The fact that they planned for it to go from Los Angeles to the Bay (340+ miles almost entirely nothing) is pretty strong evidence that basically everyone involved was only trying to win elections and not really make HSR happen.
Los Angeles to San Diego is makes much more sense. Just having a bullet train from the West Side to DTLA to Long Beach to somewhere in OC would've had massively higher ridership and cost less money.
Everyone involved just wanted to waste money to win elections (and to no surprise, it worked).
I hate Elon as much as anyone. If he even played a small part in this - the much larger blame goes to the politicians.
The fact that they planned for it to go from Los Angeles to the Bay (340+ miles almost entirely nothing) is pretty strong evidence that basically everyone involved was only trying to win elections and not really make HSR happen.
Los Angeles to San Diego is makes much more sense. Just having a bullet train from the West Side to DTLA to Long Beach to somewhere in OC would've had massively higher ridership and cost less money.
Everyone involved just wanted to waste money to win elections (and to no surprise, it worked).
I hate Elon as much as anyone. If he even played a small part in this - the much larger blame goes to the politicians.