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Originally Posted by Obadno
Well them I suppose the state of California is laughably incompetent.
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They are, but that's beside the point here. When looking at whether HSR makes sense you can't just look at country wide density metrics. You have to look at the number of transit connected individual at each node and how far apart the nodes are. LA and SF are pretty far apart for HSR and neither has a very good transit network by the standards of the rest of the world. HSR could still work if done right since the whole Central Valley portion should be dirt cheap to build by HSR standards, but there is just not political will in California to actually build this project. People can post on this forum that people in SF support it heavily and they might be right on paper. However support on paper doesn't matter, what actually matters is whether they're willing to make the less politically correct decisions like talking a bunch of people who complain the trains might look ugly or spook their horses to shove off and doing the same to all the people refusing to sell their land. People keep bringing up the interstates, but back in the day nobody gave a flying fuck about the NIMBYs. They'd build a highway straight through a fucking neighborhood if they had to. That's the sort of political will that's needed.