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A high-speed rail line in California is chugging along towards 2030 debut::The state's High-Speed Rail Authority will soon begin accepting proposals from electric train manufacturers ahead of a proposed 2030 debut.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Once selected and constructed, the high-speed trains would top out at 242 mph while traversing a 171-mile starter segment connecting Central Valley’s Bakersfield and Merced

Oh wow! In only 6.5 years, I’ll be able to get from 2/3 of the way to San Francisco to 3/4 of the way to Los Angeles very efficiently!

I swear we’re going to be litigated into irrelevance with all this NIMBY idiocy.

[-] variaatio@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Oh wow! In only 6.5 years

Then again look it this way... Once the lining has been built it will serve California for centuries, just as the original built rail corridors have. The rail tech might change, but the cleared out suitably shallow contoured corridor remains. For centuries.

I hope you’re right, but having grown up in California, and being very familiar with NIMBY shit there as well as in the northeast… I don’t think you are.

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