• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Have you SEEN what the UK is doing? HS2 is at around 700 million/mile (about 900 million USD) now, you can absolutely extract infinite money from a rail line without even finishing it.

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      5 days ago

      It is the entire English speaking world that lost the ability to built passenger rail without it costing multiple times of what it costs in other developed countries.

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      6 days ago

      That’s what I meant, every big project I know of in the US spends money continuously with no prospect of being finished