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 dmitrygr on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:45PM (#40146715)

> high-speed trains running from Merced to Bakersfield

I lived in CA for 15 years. I've been all over it (incl central ca). This would be such a pyrrhic victory, that I lack words! Who the hell needs to commute enough between those two god-forsaken places to justify the billions spent on this?

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by jeffbee on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:17PM (#40147131)

What's the justification for the far more expensive SR-99 that serves the same route?

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by MisterPea on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:24PM (#40147206)

Trucking - lots of agriculture and other transport shipped through 99

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by jeffbee on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:20PM (#40151641)

So it's an important commercial route but with no passenger demand? What a geographic oddity! I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find any other examples of that, anywhere.

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by dmitrygr on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:52PM (#40151906)

Not really. Cargo uses very different routes than people commonly. How many people travel from Shenzhen to the port of Oakland? Now how many cargo containers?

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Re:Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Ve... by jeffbee on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:02PM (#40152900)

Wow you got me there. I'm cancelling my Oakland-Shenzen train project right now.

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