• daredevil@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I feel like I’ve heard attempts at this from over a decade ago… doubting I’ll see this within my lifetime at this point.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      I can understand your skepticism, but you may be slightly misinformed. High speed rail corridors don’t pop up overnight, and they take longer if you want it to be built as economically, safe, and well-thought out as possible. For this project we are about 15 years after voters approved the idea 2008, so that part is true as you say. So planning is done to get the most efficient and effective path which takes years, consulting the public takes years, building it takes more years, then testing and commissioning is the cherry on top. The American idea of “I can do this all by myself without any European/Asian help” is certainly slowing things down and making it expensive as well. Due to inflation the costs also will rise but so will the cost of any alternative be it maintaining highway systems, managing traffic and pollution.

      See the progress of the project for yourself at their website. Or a detailed summary on the Wikipedia page.

      These must be golf pegs for Godzilla! :)

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      1 year ago

      That’s what the Hyperloop was for. California was attempting high speed rail, Musk thought a functional rail infrastructure would lower demand for his shitty cars, so he proposed his own alternative. The state accepted, cancelled the rail project, and he proceeded to cancel the Hyperloop because he never intended to build it, it was just a scheme to trick the state into leaving its rail infrastructure in the 19th century.

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      1 year ago

      lol, they’re estimating that it will be complete by 2030. There’s already a bunch of track that is laid down. Unless you’re in your death bed now. in which case, yeah sorry, not your lifetime.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You’re right! They spent over two billion dollars and didn’t lay any track, about 12-15 years ago. They have some track down now, but I lost track of their budget and timeline a long time ago.