[quote=FlyerInHi]China was not lucky. They worked very hard when everyone said would fail. Not only are they successful, they are extreme successful in rail and developing new technologies (such as high altitude extreme conditions travel). They built the whole network in 10 years, faster than California’s HSR. That just shows how screwed up we are. [/quote]
Lucky in the sense that their development happened in the recent past decade. If it was a few decades ago, it probably would have been too expensive and they may have done something else. Another decade in the future, maybe there’s some other technology.
That’s for sure. You can’t do crap with CA’s environmental and local resident provisions. If only our land was owned by the state and we could plow anything in the way like SimCity/City Skylines. Maybe we’ll just have to wait for the next earthquake.
