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California’s failing high-speed rail project is a study in how not to build a passenger railroad. The problems began with the project’s conception. Rather than focusing on the most important city pair—San Francisco and Los Angeles—public managers designed the system as a statewide network that would benefit the mid-size cities of the Central Valley in addition to the Bay Area and Southern California. It was a network, not a corridor, and building its multi-branched system added layers of complication to what could have been a simple project.
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Texas Central has taken the opposite approach in building its high-speed rail. The company began the project by selecting the equipment technology—namely Japan Railways’ Shinkansen trains, which are used by the longest-running profitable passenger railroads in the world—before laying any track. Picking well-tested technology of successful peers from the outset means that Texas Central will avoid having to reinvent the wheel midway through the project. It also chose a city pair to serve—Dallas and Houston—without committing to building a statewide network that would require hundreds of miles of extra track.
I rode the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto and back in 1971......a real marvel. They are fanatics about being on time, so you get 30 seconds to get on and off in small stations and a whole minute in the big ones. Flying out thru the green fields past Fuji was really cool. The lib fools of Kaleefornia will never pull it off......
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The difference is not political leanings but the general mindset of trying to serve as many rather than a select market, in either case the projects are not moving forward and neither one is online.
Like the interstate highway system oh boy what a failure.
When you consider that people who dont use them are forced to pay for them, yes they are.
What would you say about the success of a company or business that forced everyone to pay for its products regardless if they used them or not?
When you consider that people who dont use them are forced to pay for them, yes they are.
What would you say about the success of a company or business that forced everyone to pay for its products regardless if they used them or not?
Is say give em a crazy name like...the health care industry.
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