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"Americans are not building high speed rails, not because it doesn't bring in the so called value, it is because such investment would threat the interests of those airliners. How much the US invested in high speed rail in the last 20 years compared to its total $ spent on wars?"

America is pretty bad at building other infrastructure, too.

NY subway does not threaten interests of airlines, but its expansion is notoriously slow and expensive.



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