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Re:High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance i... by alex_young on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:58PM (#32527958)
Let’s say you want to provide an alternative to flying between some major airports. Wouldn’t you want it connected to them so people arriving on one end had a really convenient way to just get on the alternative system?
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Re:High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance i... by chrisseaton on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:54AM (#32530515)
> Let’s say you want to provide an alternative to flying between some major airports.

This seems like first-order analysis: people fly between SFO and LA so let's build a railway between them.

Second-order analysis: people actually want to go from downtown SF to downtown LA, so build a railway between those places directly.

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Re:High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance i... by richwater on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:15PM (#32528075)
Why would be provide an alternate to a clearly superior technology?
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