>>1959883The biggest contributors to high costs would be
>Americans generally having no experience in building modern HSR so they have to learn and create the infrastructure to do so from scratch>having to follow "buy American" protectionist bullshit>stringent CEQA and NEPA guidelines that require insanely detailed environmental impact statements for anything that isn't auto infrastructuretl;dr Americans red-taped themselves into wasting tens of billions more than they should have because of anachronistic/purposefully obstructive regulations
There's a reason people call it the Protection of the Environment of 1970 Act.
