Comment by ceejayoz
8 hours ago
So why do we struggle to get the infrastructure to work in dense urban areas still? Or even just “not Wyoming”?
Switzerland and California have the same population density. Why can’t CA build high speed rail?
8 hours ago
So why do we struggle to get the infrastructure to work in dense urban areas still? Or even just “not Wyoming”?
Switzerland and California have the same population density. Why can’t CA build high speed rail?
> Switzerland and California have the same population density. Why can’t CA build high speed rail?
Go find the last major Swiss route that was built, and compare its land acquisition difficulties to what happened with the California project. I'll rankly speculate that difference will be the meat of your answer.
Building infrastructure is a skill, a skill you have to constantly work on. If you do it enough and not once then you can learn to get good at it. There is a difference between a long term consistent execution of a infrastructure plan and a 'lets build high speed rail'.
I don't think rules and regulation in California are actually worse then in Switzerland.
Just for the information Switzerland neither does ;)
Switzerland has a few sections of barely-high-speed rail such as the Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
CA’s high speed rail isn’t high speed by European standards and it looks on the way to cancelation or significant curtailment. We can’t even manage what y’all would consider slow rail.
I don't know but Swiss isn't the only train system that works but also Spain, Italy, France. Poland has a growing better train system . The swiss system has it's advantages but it is also very expensive.
It might also worth it to check them out
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