China: Continuously rebuild, improve, and add into its infrastructure US: Take a few years to build a few miles, stuck in political gridlock
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China has a far higher population density than the U.S. and still a subpar secondary road network. HSR does not compete well at all with air travel.....We are spending $100 billion on this in CA and not a dime for new water storage. epic
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Actually your last statement is no longer true (if it ever was) and you probably know it. Mr Brown just signed off on major new water storage investments, including new dams. Fact is, water projects have always been his second highest major spending priority, right behind HSR.
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UK: London's Central Line that in summer regularly runs to temperatures in excess of 35C in a confined space deep underground will offer airconditioned carriages in early 2030. (I am not even kidding about this).
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Should it really cost $125m per mile?
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Our “biggest gamble” has been underfunding rail for decades in favor of highways. It has not worked out favorably.
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If point-to-point air travel is economically viable in California, high speed rail to same destinations can. Whether it will be is dependent on many factors, not least of which is how many political & financial roadblocks ideological opponents can put in the way.
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Not even a little bit fair comparison, but excellent examples of the two extremes of government action. In China, there's no concern about property rights or public input, and mostly open spaces. Here, basically the opposite.
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I think a much, much reference point / benchmark for the US will be Taiwan's effort to develop HSR: Also a democratic country with strong property right protection, as well as difficult earthquake-prone terrain. A lot of China's HSR go over flat undeveloped places so easier.
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