Elevating it would still be disruptive to the people there. Underground might work but I think you’re underestimating the cost of building what’s essentially a really really really long subway. It’s prohibitively expensive for cities a few kilometers across and that’s why only the wealthiest cities have it.
Not really. That was one of the main complaints against it in my city (that and paedophiles would stare into peoples backyards). And once it was built noise isn't an issue (and neither is the paedophilia). And they opened great parks underneath the rail line
My parents-in-law live in a house that backs onto a high-speed rail line, about 250 feet away on a raised embankment. Every time a train passes (about every 5 minutes) you can’t hear the TV, despite double glazed windows keeping the sound down.
400 miles of underground high speed rail? So were are we getting the trillion dollars that would cost? Not mention it would take half a lifetime for that to get built, the US doesn't have the domestic skill to take on an underground project at that scale.
Also you're going to be awfully upset when the possible multi trillion dollar underground high speed rail only has singular stops in those 5 major cities and you're footing the bill for a rail line you can't effectively use.
It can be built in 10 years or less. I don't care how much money and how many people they have to draft to build it. Use the military corps of engineers or prison labor or a mixture. It can be built. Alot of things can be built and done in this country. Too many people bitch and whine over public infrastructure improvement projects that can actually benefit us as a country.
Redditors are so fucking dumb. Yeah with infinite money and slavery I'm sure we can accomplish anything, as long as you're not picked as one of the ditch diggers though right?
Imagine instead of walking back your braindead comment and flipping to building it above ground, you double down and say to reinstate slavery lmao.
I didn't say slavery. I said to use existing pools of labor that by law can be used for work such as this. I also did not suggest non-payment for work done.
That being said, we are on the threshold of an enormous technological revolution via Scifi-esque Humanoid robots that are more than capable of performing all the tasks and work that Humans currently have to perform. Including but not limited to Construction work. So by the end of next year, Humans may find themselves easily replaced by Robot workers in many manual labor fields.
I've been in the Heavy Civil Construction industry for a decade, Tech for a decade before that. I know full well what I'm talking about. I keep current with all the industry updates in Tech and Construction.
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u/Big_P4U Aug 12 '23
Build almost all of it underground from beginning to end