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Originally Posted by Pazuzu View Post
Of course! But, play the financial calculus game. If this project can be done for any total cost less than the train project, give any results better than the train project, have a downtime and accident rate less than the train project...then it MUST supersede the train project. Especially if it can be privately funded as a privately owned transportation system, which I would be 100% for, or a private company run via government contracts like SpaceX (and Tesla for that matter...).
Hey, I'm for anyone wanting to do this, privately funded...
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