Comment Re:$68 Billion for high speed trains (Score 1) 599
Instead of spending $68 Billion on a single high speed rail line between 2 cities that are already linked by several adequate transportation options...
The alternative to spending $68 billion on HSR is spending $119.0 billion for 4,295 new lane-miles of highway, plus $38.6 billion for 115 new airport gates and 4 new runways, for a total estimated cost of $158 billion. Therefore, spending $68 billion on HSR will free up $90 billion that can be spent on water projects (but see below).
...maybe we should use a fraction of that money for water projects? Moving water to where people live is a simple engineering problem.
Actually, it's much simpler than that. It's an economics problem. We could solve the water shortage by breakfast tomorrow if we wanted to.