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California Is Exploring High-Speed Buses That Connect LA and San Francisco in Just Over 3 Hours (gizmodo.com)
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Anything but trains.

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[–] [S] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If you wanted to build a track for these "high speed buses" it would require special safety features, signalling, barriers etc. that make it look much more like a train track than like a motorway. So you'd gain exactly nothing over building a train track.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Not true. Not even close. According to the article, the bus lanes would be built on existing infrastructure. The bridges exist, the right-of-way exists, there would be comparatively little political resistance, the cost would be MUCH lower. Also, maintenance costs would be much lower.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    But those aren't going to do 180 km/h. No existing bus will achieve this kind of speed on a regular motorway. This is all just a bunch of hot air.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Well, yes, exactly. A nation cannot remain an economic superpower by frittering away its wealth on expensive, but suboptimal shit like a "highway" for high-speed buses. If it's no longer able able to build effective, cheap infrastructure because it doesn't benefit an entrenched industry, then collapse isn't far off.

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