Hey I have a crazy idea, it’s more expensive and it won’t work, but I’m sure we can agree to cancel this project because of how futuristic it sounds.
I call it HyperHoops, because I was hyped when I came up with it.
No I’m not on drugs, promise.I’m all for more trains in general, but $12 billion?? Fucking hell that’s too much money. And Las Vegas??? A city that practically and logistically-speaking should not exist? Building a zero emissions train (theoretically awesome) that goes out into the middle of the desert to a city that is warming faster than anywhere else in America, one that will only need more access to our dwindling water supply in the future, makes zero sense to me.
I’m sure people will hate me for saying this, but we should be phasing out unsustainable cities like Las Vegas, not giving them incentives to build up even more.
High speed rail is expensive to build in developed and incorporated areas. That’s pretty much a universal truth, unless you get all CCP about labor and land rights.
I mean, I’m sure there are ways to get that cheap prison labor to do some rail work. Could put gangs of them together in chains or something. Think about the profit margins!
I’m sure people will hate me for saying this, but we should be phasing out unsustainable cities like Las Vegas, not giving them incentives to build up even more.
I live in Vegas (an am partly excited about the train because, well it’s a train and it will make it easier to visit family) and fully agree. This place is uninhabitable for 3 months out of the year without technological assistance (air conditioning). But I think this applies to many places both too hot and too cold. Even Southern California has no water without massive exploitation of the Colorado River. Our population is simply too much for the planet.
Los Angeles could get all the water it needs from the Pacific Ocean with existing technology, whenever the politics requires it.
True, especially with some of the recent advancements, but of course politicians doing anything smart is where the impossiblity lies.
Project overview: https://www.brightlinewest.com/overview/project
Have fun with the deadliest train system out west. It kills lots of folks out in Florida.
It’s deadly in Florida because people drive around the barriers at level crossings. That won’t be a problem here because there won’t be any level crossings.
People actually do that? Wtf
All the time. People are dumb.
Yeah but, I mean…Florida.
I mean look up who owns/is heavily invested in Brightline. …hit it’s a bunch of Florida men… And they will export Florida
It is going to run in the middle of a highway median, zero railroad crossings. Have you even read any articles on it?
I was just wondering how they were going to do a land deal to get the space to build it, but your comment explains it. Good idea… Need to do more of that.
