To put this into perspective, China’s high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.

This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.

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    yea but that’s not happening in the shithole that is the US. What I meant is that they should stop caring this much about the money aspect and look at whether the progress is good. $100b is a lot for normal people and smaller countries but not much for a (falling off) superpower, and it’s spread out over many years.

    The 2008 bailout for instance was like $29000b

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      The 2008 bailout for instance was like $29000b

      A one time bailout of the national economy that included a bunch of HSR funding from coast to coast.