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Trudeau pitches high-speed rail, putting surprising new decarbonization options on the table (www.nationalobserver.com)
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[โ€“] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

" countries in the Anglosphere experience the highest costs for building transit due to overbuilding and overdesigning".

Too true ... Look at HS2, they didn't need to aim for 400km/h, now they can't afford to finish it.
So - hope Canada can do better.
Maybe Sweden is a better example to study in this case ?

[โ€“] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

High top speeds isn't the reason that HS2 is costing so much, there's a lot of overbuilding of things like tunnelling under rural areas to keep certain voters happy. Also, the UK absolutely can afford to finish it, it's a political choice not to.