California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete route from San Francisco to Los Angeles (www.kcra.com)

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To put this into perspective, China's high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.

This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.

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[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Why is it expensive?

[-] Tak@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Because a bunch of rich people think it's worth it I guess

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

So the issue seems to be private ownership of land, not the locale

[-] Tak@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I guess? It's really both as it is more expensive compared to mostly all privately owned land.

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