Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles

Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by fragmede on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:52AM (#40143765)

Merced to Bakersfield is exactly right. Build it there first, figure out how to build it, fuckup where it's cheaper and gain the experience so when you have to tear up downtown LA and SF you know what the fuck you're doing and can get in, get it done right the first time, and then get out. No one wants to live in a construction zone, but it's worse when something goes wrong and the construction zone lasts 3x longer than it has to.

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by mayormcmatt on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:14PM (#40146165)

This, exactly. We Americans have very little knowledge base on how to build HSR, so it's as much a workforce training and proving ground as it is a functional line.

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by eitally on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:38PM (#40147392)

I wouldn't say there's a technical knowledge gap insomuch as there are regulatory and political issues in the cities that need more time to resolve than building a line through farm country & desert do.

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by drunner on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:48PM (#40147514)

You would think we would just hire the dutch/swiss/italians (take your pick out of europe) to come build our HSR, similar but opposite of how we destroyed their cities when they brought in our 'traffic engineers' in the 60s and 70s.

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by shawnz on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:53PM (#40147565)

On the other hand, how many additional people would be served by the infrastructure if they would just be brave and take a risk on an imperfect solution rather than bickering about it for X years or decades?

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by fragmede on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:40AM (#40153489)

the bickering is why it's so expensive, but unless you have a way to get other people not to file lawsuits, that's the system we have.

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