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To put this into perspective, China’s high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.

This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    4 months ago

    $100b is nothing

    Its a fuckton of money. Its over five times the GDP of the country of Georgia. I wouldn’t even be arguing “HSR isn’t worth it”. I’d be arguing we need a fucking HSR Joseph Stalin to kill all the motherfuckers who have been involved in the project to date, start over, and do it right.

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      yea but that’s not happening in the shithole that is the US. What I meant is that they should stop caring this much about the money aspect and look at whether the progress is good. $100b is a lot for normal people and smaller countries but not much for a (falling off) superpower, and it’s spread out over many years.

      The 2008 bailout for instance was like $29000b

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        The 2008 bailout for instance was like $29000b

        A one time bailout of the national economy that included a bunch of HSR funding from coast to coast.