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A high-speed rail line in California is chugging along towards 2030 debut (www.popsci.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.