Making expensive things free doesn't make them cheap.https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1120296821300060160 …
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Other countries can build cost-effective widespread public transit, too, but watch California's perfectly reasonable plan for high-speed rail between SF & LA totally collapse under a swarm of rent-seekers enabled by the extant regulatory system
If California were its own country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world. Why can't it have the same modern transit options you can find the world over? Because large-scale public projects in the US are ridden with cost disease. We HAVE to start there.
