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Las Vegas approves 68 miles of underground transportation tunnels (www.reviewjournal.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

America desperately tries any transport solution except trains challenge world speedrun attempt any%.

[–] duckington 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing that hurts is it really would not be that hard to build… but they just don’t. Do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The primary issue is that American government, at all levels, is pathologically incapable of doing anything whose ROI interval is longer than about a year.

[–] duckington 1 points 2 years ago

Painfully true… after all, line must go up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Except interstates, then it's "what's an ROI?"

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