Re:High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance i...
by mulmen on Saturday August 20, 2022 @05:26AM
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I think there’s a lot to learn from the UK’s rail system so thanks for sharing this.
> In fact, any large infrastructure project in the UK is government planned (federal - in the US?)
California the state is more comparable to the UK than the UK is to the US.
California is about 60% of the population of the UK in 170% of the land.
California: 40,000,000 people in 163,000 square miles
UK: 67,000,000 people in 94,000 square miles
US: 330,000,000 people in 3,800,000 square miles
So I think UK rail modernization is probably actually pretty comparable to California HSR.
Federal dollars and regulators are involved in California HSR but it’s a necessity in the United States that the states do a lot of this for themselves.
> In fact, any large infrastructure project in the UK is government planned (federal - in the US?)
California the state is more comparable to the UK than the UK is to the US.
California is about 60% of the population of the UK in 170% of the land.
California: 40,000,000 people in 163,000 square miles
UK: 67,000,000 people in 94,000 square miles
US: 330,000,000 people in 3,800,000 square miles
So I think UK rail modernization is probably actually pretty comparable to California HSR.
Federal dollars and regulators are involved in California HSR but it’s a necessity in the United States that the states do a lot of this for themselves.