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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Once selected and constructed, the high-speed trains would top out at 242 mph while traversing a 171-mile starter segment connecting Central Valley’s Bakersfield and Merced

Oh wow! In only 6.5 years, I’ll be able to get from 2/3 of the way to San Francisco to 3/4 of the way to Los Angeles very efficiently!

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Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s the easy stretch to complete. It’ll be another 15 to actually connect SF and LA.

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electriccars@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Do the easiest part first to prove it can be done successfully. It’s the pilot basically.

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variaatio@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Oh wow! In only 6.5 years

Then again look it this way… Once the lining has been built it will serve California for centuries, just as the original built rail corridors have. The rail tech might change, but the cleared out suitably shallow contoured corridor remains. For centuries.

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- gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I hope you’re right, but having grown up in California, and being very familiar with NIMBY shit there as well as in the northeast… I don’t think you are.
  
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Klystron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The central valley eating good for once

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