Was more tongue in cheek than anything. I have a vague feeling like the West Coast liberal zone is somewhat more nimble than the East Coast liberal zone in adapting so it doesn't surprise me that San Fran is moving faster.
After environmental impact reviews, community review, labor mandates and assorted everything bagel requirements probably a million dollars per gate installed.
That strikes me as more an argument for revisiting security theater at airports now that OBL is crab food and Islamic Terror in general is a fear from twenty years ago than it does an argument that America should, somehow, try and build more intracity train services. Who knows, maybe President Musk and his Mango sidekick will defund the TSA next.
Sure, but that all the arguments for long distance passenger rail came generally later and now the boom has dropped on building rail lines. The land is all bought up. Could you imagine trying to buy right of ways in the densely developed, and therefore economically sensible, parts of the country? And that's without even discussing the regulatory obstacles. We can't even get around the enviro and local groups to build power lines, wind and solar plants and adequate housing let along trains.
Was more tongue in cheek than anything. I have a vague feeling like the West Coast liberal zone is somewhat more nimble than the East Coast liberal zone in adapting so it doesn't surprise me that San Fran is moving faster.
After environmental impact reviews, community review, labor mandates and assorted everything bagel requirements probably a million dollars per gate installed.
That strikes me as more an argument for revisiting security theater at airports now that OBL is crab food and Islamic Terror in general is a fear from twenty years ago than it does an argument that America should, somehow, try and build more intracity train services. Who knows, maybe President Musk and his Mango sidekick will defund the TSA next.
Sure, but that all the arguments for long distance passenger rail came generally later and now the boom has dropped on building rail lines. The land is all bought up. Could you imagine trying to buy right of ways in the densely developed, and therefore economically sensible, parts of the country? And that's without even discussing the regulatory obstacles. We can't even get around the enviro and local groups to build power lines, wind and solar plants and adequate housing let along trains.
We also don't have Europe's geography or population density.