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Not just CA, TX has similar issues with a PRIVATE HSR that the land owners simply won't let be built.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/texas-central...

To be honest I would be surprised if any land-intensive project gets completed in the Texas/NMexico/Arizona area; those ranchers are really territoral

I mean given all the adversity and polarization in current US culture we still haven't escalated to the armed siege of government buildings, yet those guys have already done that twice this decade over fucking cows

But the CA project wasn't canceled due to land owners protesting its development... so no the issues aren't similar.

Au contraire, the biggest issue that HSR faced was landowners fighting it every step of the way. Between fighting eminent domain and fighting with CEQA (California environmental quality act) it's surprising anything got done.

That was definitely NOT the biggest issue that faced the HSR.

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