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In response to "Brightline addressed that by going electric as well as the plan is to put the rails within the already approved footprint of the I-15" by JD

the first sin was probably just not mapping it to the I-5 through the central valley but everybody gotta wet their beaks -- (edited)

Posted by hollywood big shot (aka pickmix) Dec 8 '23, 11:06

"But the design for the nation’s most ambitious infrastructure project was never based on the easiest or most direct route. Instead, the train’s path out of Los Angeles was diverted across a second mountain range to the rapidly growing suburbs of the Mojave Desert — a route whose most salient advantage appeared to be that it ran through the district of a powerful Los Angeles county supervisor.

The dogleg through the desert was only one of several times over the years when the project fell victim to political forces that have added billions of dollars in costs and called into question whether the project can ever be finished."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/10/11/world/california-bullet-train-off-rails/ (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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That project is a whole different thing and I've no idea what it will take to get a North-South high speed train -- nm - JD Dec 8, 11:09 2
- about a trillion dollars and 50 years at this point -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 8, 11:11 1
  - Heh. I should put that in my last instructions. Save part of my ashes and somebody take what's left of me on the high speed LA-SF train -- nm - JD Dec 8, 11:14

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the first sin was probably just not mapping it to the I-5 through the central valley but everybody gotta wet their beaks -- (edited)

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