• uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    This is misleadingly reductionist. California high speed rail has made consistant progess in that time. That progress has been slower than ourslowest expectations. It demonstrates the void of expertise the US has in rail megaprojects. However, that expertise is being built, slowly and painfully. Its still forward progress for a nation which tore up half its rail overthe last 50 years.

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      1 year ago

      America invented rail megaprojects.

      America still has the largest rail network by far. It’s well more than twice the size of China’s.

      The only interesting note is that it’s almost all freight compared to other nations’ use of passenger rail.