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Kinda amazing that the Chinese could help build our railroads again...
We'll technology does tend to be cyclical.
Help wanted: CEO for CA high speed rail project. High pay, sleepless nights
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#32I really don't get this project. The math just doesn't add up.
It's going to cost ~$67 billion dollars and there are ~39 million people in California.
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#33Just curious..if China could help build it with half cost and half time, would CA accept? If not, why?
You mean like the Bay Bridge?
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#34We're like the Yahoo of countries.
Based off our inability to build infrastructure? Boeing still builds a ton of airplanes in America. Tesla is founded and manufactured in America. In 20 years we've created the empires of iPhone, Google and Facebook. Wasn't CRISPR discovered in America as well?
Wait but I thought the President said we are the laughingstock of the world?
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#35We're like the Yahoo of countries.
california isn't a country.
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Concord has an airport that used to have daily nonstops. A plane crash into a mall and assorted NIMBY's have closed it to daily scheduled commercial traffic, but it's still perfectly capable. Watsonville has an airport with plenty of room to better serve south bay and Santa Cruz. Moffett, of course. Even San Carlos has an airport with a fair amount of general aviation traffic. Hayward Executive always looms when I fl…
All of your suggestions are further from San Francisco than SFO is...
It would still make SFO less crowded.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based off our inability to build infrastructure? Boeing still builds a ton of airplanes in America. Tesla is founded and manufactured in America. In 20 years we've created the empires of iPhone, Google and Facebook. Wasn't CRISPR discovered in America as well?
I'm more referring to the dysfunction of our government and institutions. But in a democracy, dysfunctional government is a manifestation of dysfunction in the people.
> In a democracy, dysfunctional government is a manifestation of lack of virtue in the people
Or...just a reflection of bona fide disagreements? I prefer a gridlocked government to one that rams its will over the minority. That might be termed "dysfunctional" by some, but not by me. Not every value system needs the state to be efficient all the time.
Note that the California High-Speed Rail project has never been approved by more than a slim majority of Californians [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Pub...
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based off our inability to build infrastructure? Boeing still builds a ton of airplanes in America. Tesla is founded and manufactured in America. In 20 years we've created the empires of iPhone, Google and Facebook. Wasn't CRISPR discovered in America as well?
I'm more referring to the dysfunction of our government and institutions. But in a democracy, dysfunctional government is a manifestation of dysfunction in the people.
What's dysfunctional about not wanting to pour hundreds of billions into technology that's poorly suited to the US?
It's actually proof the system is working.
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The HSR is supposed to go from SF downtown to LA in 2h40m. You want to go from city center to city center including airport security in 53 minutes? The shortest SFO-LAX flight I see right now is 1h25m. Even if you made smaller, local, more efficient airports, I fail to see how you can hit 53 minutes while including commute time to the airport and clearing security.
> including commute time to the airport and clearing security. You have to include that for the rail too, obviously. Yes. You won't need to leave as much time for the train station as you do for the airport. Why? Because the airport services many more flights and is much more crowded. If we had more airports, it could become similar to a rail-station in terms of time needed at the station/airport. In terms of time th…
You're ignoring three major points. First, the need for security is less with trains because they can't be turned into guided missles in transit. Second, you can build stations in the middle of the city but you can't build airports in the middle of the city. Penn Station is a 15 minute cab ride from most of the NYC CBD. LGA or JFK are close to an hour. Third, trains are inherently faster to load because they have many entry doors. Amtrak loads hundreds of people at NYP in a few minutes.