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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Caltrian is not California High Speed Rail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok? The point is that rail development is expensive and like an order of magnitude the cost of Aptera. Ideally we could do both but they shouldn’t be put into the same bucket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No it's not, railway infrastructure comes at a fraction of a cost of highways, the maintenance alone, all the tires, fuel, insurance, etc of cars, even the environment impact (in like the area they cover/destroy) is minute.

All that costs, somebody has to pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Really? So we can install thousands of miles of rail for under a billion dollars? Let’s do it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

For raw resources sure, its properties acquisition that gets expensive. You still have to pay even with imminent domain and thats not getting into legal battles and the like. But at least in my neck of the woods I wish they could acquire the old industrial rails and use them for transport for workers.