Even if this project balloons another 30-40% in cost, i still think it will pay dividends if it comes to fruition. If we can link all the major metropolitan hubs via highspeed rail, the effect this would have on our economy would be substantial. I would imagine it would pay for itself fairly quickly. If a businessman…

The idea of having high speed rail links between major cities should honestly be a no-brainer for any developed country. You want to reach your climate goals? Public transport is the only way to do it. However, even if you build a rail link between cities, it is still quite useless to people without cars if there is…

“Trains just won’t work, says only developed nation on Earth without robust trains”

It’s a lot of money, but California brings in $250 billion in taxes every year. We need to push this through and do an honest appraisal of what went wrong (and what went right) when it’s done. Doing new things is hard and many mistakes will be made, but we have to start somewhere and presumably we’ll get better at it…

As it turns out, overregulation and placating every last environmental group might actually end up making more environmentally-friendly development prohibitively expensive.