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Comment by porphyra

$231 B can subsidize over 400 years of free air travel between LA and SF (assuming $200 per round trip and 2.7 million flights per year [1]).

The hope is that the high speed rail would allow way more trips between the two cities, as well as the central valley cities in between, bolstering the economy, compared to the current amount of flights. I will keep my fingers crossed for the next 30 years.

[1] https://simpleflying.com/san-francisco-los-angeles-flight-ma...

parent porphyra 6 months ago

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