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Comment by oblio

> Boring Company is also on the path to being successful, it's just not advertised much.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? It's a marketing gimmick with lower transport capacity than a horse and buggy (and similar travel speed!) that's distracting cities like Vegas and Nashville from actual public transit.

It's an abject failure.

> If you were to take what should be public transportation planning and turn it into a neoliberal nightmare, this is exactly what you would get".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Loop

> Hyperloop - this could still come after boring company succeeds.

If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bycicle.

Also, my guess is that you guys are all American. For the kind of money they're investing they could just start an automous train/tram company and the environment and humanity would be much better off.

parent oblio 1 month ago

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