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Re:Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have b... by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 28, 2025 @07:07PM (#43827078)
> likely HSR would not have been approved in the first place if the central valley had been excluded

Then don't build it. That money would have been far better spent improving urban metro and regional rail. (And airports and roads and charging stations, et cetera.)

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Re:Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have b... by jimt1234 on Monday April 28, 2025 @09:25PM (#43827882)
> Then don't build it. That money would have been far better spent...

...only literally anything else!

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Re:Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have b... by saagarjha on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:32AM (#43830379)
That money did literally improve urban metro and regional rail–Caltrain electrification came out of it.
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Re:Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have b... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @04:37AM (#43842607)
> That money would have been far better spent improving urban metro and regional rail.

CA HSR was the political lever to get funding to improve urban metro and regional rail, so, in a sense, the money was spent doing that.

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