If I'm calculating this right this is supposed to cost around $40m per kilometre (12 bil total for 200 mile project). This is what high speed rail cost in Europe where they are actually building a lot of it. My guess is that in US, country with little to no experience in such projects they will spend about 10x more. The failed HS2 project in UK was supposed to cost £250m/km for the final part. My guess is they know they will run out of money after like 10% of the construction but just want to start building hoping to find more money later. Soon they will start cutting back the project while throwing more and more money at it to prop up the private sector and it will collapse like all the other big infrastructure projects in US.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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Got sloshed on tequila on the shinkansen years ago. I can tell you a bullet train to vegas will be fuckin wild.
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Train exploded...
And convinced people that Victorian vacuum tubes were a totally new idea that definitely didn't fail 150 years ago.
I remember seeing some documentary about how china stole technology for their rails from several EU/Japanese companies and now trying to sell it to the US for reduced price with worse materials. I wonder who this company 'Brightline West' is planning on getting to manufacture the actual railcars.
I personally wont trust it if it was made by China but I dont know if its stipulated in the federal grant on what vendors they can use.
This should have been the trial HSR project for the west coast, not the LA-SF shitshow that has a debatable chance of even getting finished.