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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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