• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I sincerely hope this will happen instead of the funds just disappearing without accountability. More rails are always worth supporting.

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    1 year ago

    Is it proper normal highspeed rail, or is it an idiotic Musky vactrain, or solar frickin railways, or perhaps a entrepeneur will design a flooded underground tunnel systems where submarines are transporting passengers?

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      1 year ago

      1435 mm, 25kV (AC, Overhead) double track with grades of up to 4.5%, Ø: 165 km/h, Top: 300 km/h, EMU (likely Siemens Velaro Novo (ICE S in Germany), but AFAIK, has to be built in the US)

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    1 year ago

    Nice way to waste 3B dollars.

    I’m sure the casino owners really appreciate it. Let them subsidize this nonsense.

    Vegas shouldn’t exist. It’s a freakin desert.

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      1 year ago

      Or realise that I’d rather it went in somewhere it was being used, rather than not going into the perfect place for it