Comment on Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project

Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  more of biden’s infrastructure bill money to steal… congressionally approved and allocated money. early site prep has already begun, even.

  letting muskrat anywhere near this has great potential to really fuck-up the entire northeast corridor for a decade or two–or longer, for passengers and freight.

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Expensive vaporware

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• conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, the Vegas loop, as I understand it to be built, would never be allowed by any sane or even rogue/mad civil engineer, and that’s basically just a gussied up go-kart tunnel. No way in fuck they need to be allowed anywhere near train infra.

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• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Musk is the president, he gets any contract he wants.

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