>>1760582>Ask them why it costs ten times per mile compared to France.France has nationalized railroads whereas CA doesn't. If CA could just nationalize property, HSR would have been built in the late 1990s using SP's Coast Sub which was where Caltrans extensively prototyped high-speed Talgo trainsets with the idea that they could do HSR there. Sacramento refused to finance it. Also, the cost per mile is still only 1/2 of equivalent BART expansion which is relevant in regards to the Bay Area.
>Ask them why they ran property owners off their land through code violation fines in LA county's desert. got to break a few eggs to make an omelette
>Ask them why they didn't start with getting the rails from the terminals in sf and La built out into the central area of the state. Politically infeasibe, but also those tracks already exist in the form of Caltrain and Metrolink. Just no tunnels connecting them to the Central Valley.
>Ask them if their wife's son looks up to them.all of this is proceeding well compared to San Francisco's internal Central Subway and Transbay Transit Center problems, and CHSRA's lead engineer didn't have to get a gook and an hero like a certain somebody did
