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1. High speed rail in CA is crazy too costly. But cheaper than the only alternative.
Fri Jun 11, 2021, 08:19 AM
Jun 2021

Business travel between the Bay Area and Los Angeles will keep growing. But the airports are maxed out. It would be cheaper to move to the moon than build another airport in LA or the Bay Area. Business travel from LA to Bay Area generates a zillion dollars in gdp. High speed rail can keep those business types traveling back and forth. At a cost of less than five percent of a new airport, even at crazy stupid high speed rail costs.

It actually makes economic sense.

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