Hasn’t this happened yet because of issues getting enough land in a relatively straight path between destinations? If the curves are too great either the G forces are too high for the passengers or the train isn’t able to travel at a high speed. Elon had his boring machine but I’m guessing the lack of news around that means it isn’t progressing as hoped?
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The Boring Company is stating to sound like they will just use Teslas in the tunnels not any other form of transportation. So it’s a very lack luster project to say the least
https://www.boringcompany.com/loop https://www.boringcompany.com/products
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as soon as the Republicans are elected with a full house they can shut this down and throw away all of the money that was put into it
Why would they? This is funneling taxpayer money to their donors.
why did they do it to the California high speed rail
Anyone that's been on am amtrak knows exactly how well this will go.
pull the other one.
“Microsoft has just announced it’s brand new, innovative music experience: the Zune!”
What about rails? You need rails first. Who is providing the land where rails will be built on?
But yeah, trains it is!
We already have rails and rail right of way established all over tgw country. Push comes to shove, build is as a layer on the Interstate highway system.