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Is this like a perpetual approval or does it expire in 5 years and have to get a new environmental review? My understanding of this project so far is that it will need 2 more democrat presidents with infrastructure bills to get 78% funded and somehow we’ll figure out the other 22% later or have japans sovereign wealth fund foot the bill

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The sad thing is, I can't tell if this is a joke.

I’m being snarky but Japan does support other countries railroad projects (like how they loaned Delhi Metro) which is how they can get the projects done, so maybe it could work for us too

I'm on board with Japan doing it.

Financing is different from doing it. Also, from my country’s experience they usually give loans (and are not a partner/owner); so they don’t really care about the project outcome.

JR Central is partnering with the people that want to build a bullet train from Dallas to Houston. We'll see if it ever happens. I'm hoping so!

That seems like such a great route. I’m not as familiar with the area but I’m presuming the land acquisition part won’t be too bad?

Isn’t that this one that temporarily died due to Texas legal stuff until 1 month ago when Amtrak helped save it? Yeah I hope it succeeds but there’s a lot of influential Texans who want it to fail or kill it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-21/texas-hig...

One of Hong Kong's "exports" is its subway system. The MTR is the corporation behind several cities' subway systems (Stockholm, Beijing, Macau, Shenzen, Sydney, Melbourne, and more), , so snark aside, its not an idea to be rejected out of hand. I hear great things about the on time performance of Japanese trains.

that's more to do with a toxic work culture than anything, but as someone who regularly gets the DB between Frankfurt and Basel maybe a bit of toxicity might do some good...

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