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The West is in terminal decline, especially Democrat states. Since the California High Speed Rail project was passed and funded, California has completed just over 30 miles. China on the other hand, has build over 12,000 miles of fully connected High Speed Rail in the same period of time. I've ridden on it, and it's wonderful. China's network has a top speed that far surpasses California's plan. Additionally, Red states have completed high speed rail projects, notably Florida's SunRail project, though the top speed of their projects are still lower than China's system. I'm not sure California will ever finish this project, I support high speed rail; but the corruption of our state is incredible. We should fire the State of California, join the Belt and Road initiative and hire the Chinese to complete the project.

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SunRail has an average speed of 31 mph. This is less than BART (35 mph). Tell me more jokes about how red states are superior?

And tell me again about how this is high-speed rail? It also has a ridership that's a small fraction of BART.

Would it be too much to ask for you to get a grasp of basic facts before bashing California for its efforts? California did better with the system it built half a century ago than Florida did in 2017.

P.S. The word is "Democratic".

I’m sorry I live in California Brightline is the name of the line. The point is Florida could build it California can’t, even in 20 years time we won’t have it.

And in regards to efforts, it seems a money laundering operation more than a construction project.

Pure guessing and speculation. You have no idea what California will manage and what it won't.

As for Brightline, that's another joke argument: it's privately run! It's not public at all! So it cannot possibly prove anything about what "Florida" can build. Right? So what's your point?

Right now, it runs between Miami and West Palm Beach, btw. That's it. So climate change will wipe that out soon anyway, along with most of Miami.

Postscript: it's also not "high-speed" rail. At all. It fails to meet even "the lowest high-speed rail standard set by the International Union of Railways" as of now, which is 200kph. It's about the speed of car travel.

SunRail is high speed rail? Something tells me your claim of the Chinese system is just as credible as the SunRail one...

True. The Chinese Communist Party may have murdered more people than any other organization in human history but “at least the trains run on time”.

that's quite the statement to make

Your remark is quite the statement. The death toll of CCP is >40 million. The only other organization that might beat that is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The Mongol Empire?

Well one, it doesn't really add much to the conversation about high speed rail in the US state of California. Also, you would need some type of citation before talking about death tolls. I would also argue that your numbers are wrong and that you're clearly biased, so any discussion about the CCP or the CPSU would be pointless.

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