Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "California high-speed rail: Trump orders review into project" video.

  1. The project was always considered at most borderline feasible by transportation experts. In my opinion one can easily rule it out by adding up the traffic between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It's just not there.
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  2. @ Public transportation doesn't generate demand. I have been commuting for years on a fast rail system that had TWO people in TWO rail cars. It would have been cheaper to the community to call limos for both of us than to operate that system at that time of the day (which was morning and evening commuter hours!). Dude... I have been several times around the word in public transportation systems. They rarely work financially and they are never convenient. Now let me give you some more attention, since you are begging so nicely. ;-)
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  3. Higher population density and more demand because people have more need for public transportation.
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  4. Japan has ten times the population density of the US and most Japanese are living along a couple of narrow transportation corridors spanning all of the country.
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  5. Certainly not because a Tesla is a good option to drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Musk had a point that a hyperloop built over the existing highway would have been the far better option. ;-)
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