Imagine going from nowhere to nowhere, this thing has a high possibility of going out of business as soon as it gets completed, so much money will be used to maintain this thing and nobody using it
Yeah, I'd chalk it up a lot more to mismanagement and making....questionable strategic decisions in the marketing than ranting about "corruption".
Japan's Shinkansen train is completely private run and profitable. I honestly wouldn't mind a private company just doing it at this point. They'd just have to own the buildings and businesses they run the train out of (Salesforce HSR?) lmao.
www.tokyoreview.net
But was the land originally private and purchased on the open market, or did the government come in and eminent domain it for the company?Japan's Shinkansen train is completely private run and profitable. I honestly wouldn't mind a private company just doing it at this point. They'd just have to own the buildings and businesses they run the train out of (Salesforce HSR?) lmao.
Lessons from Railway Privatization in Japan – Tokyo Review
Rail privatization is controversial elsewhere, but many of Japan's privatized JR operators are profitable and efficient. What did they do differently?
Nevada probably doesn't have the money for their part of it, and CA isn't exactly falling over themselves to help tax money flow out of the state. Unless NV promised to share tax revenue with CA based on ridership (which I can't see them doing), I just don't see the incentive for states to create such a system.
I'm not sure it's a useful comparison: it looks like the government paid for the infrastructures before selling part of the system to the private sector.
Our local elected people are as self-centered as those of other countries 🤓
Oh yeah - my cousins are from Boston so I drove through that mess for almost its entire "history" - but as it turns out, the Boston city planners took the lessons from that seriously...
Read the audit I linked above. It is absolutely criminal how this got marketed and was run by civil servants.
I saw that Amtrak expansion proposal map and CANNOT BELIEVE Vegas to LA doesn't exist yet. At this point they should seriously just hire JR to build a few over here. fuck it.Japan's Shinkansen train is completely private run and profitable. I honestly wouldn't mind a private company just doing it at this point. They'd just have to own the buildings and businesses they run the train out of (Salesforce HSR?) lmao.
Lessons from Railway Privatization in Japan – Tokyo Review
Rail privatization is controversial elsewhere, but many of Japan's privatized JR operators are profitable and efficient. What did they do differently?
Also, Vegas to LA would be huge just because of hangovers + drunk people.
There's no direct rail connection between LA and Las Vegas. BNSF goes south of LV through Arizona. Union Pacific has a route there, but it's from Salt Lake City. It wouldn't be difficult to connect existing rail lines to create that direct connection, but Amtrak isn't in the business of building railroads.
Yea, sorry, that's what I was calling out: I noticed it was highlighted as a new route on that map and was like OH MY GOD. Like it's not phenomenal here but I at least can go to Chicago or Milwaukee from Detroit.
Fixed that for you.
I'm not sure what they mean by that line though. It could be like a lot of places that aren't directly connected by rail or Amtrak doesn't have trackage rights. Bus service provided by Amtrak. That's how you get from Sacramento to LA now. You take a train as far as Bakersfield and then take a bus over the Grapevine to LA.
